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30 December 2005, 06:58
333_OKH
Black Cherry Gunstock, Have You Ever?
Now I am hooked. This little gem sold this year and I never even saw it! It is the Ottmar people were talking about in cherry...NOW I AM HOOKED ON A CHERRY STOCK !!!!


30 December 2005, 07:54
friarmeier
oui vea, that's purdy!

333, you're like a dog with a bone on this one! Where did you find that pic, and who was the gunsmith?

Thanks,

friar


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30 December 2005, 07:57
333_OKH
Well I got it from the firm that sold it. It was done by Maurice Ottmar.
30 December 2005, 10:12
333_OKH

30 December 2005, 10:13
333_OKH
Tell me you hate this! I dare you!
30 December 2005, 17:02
M1Tanker
quote:
Originally posted by 333_OKH:
Tell me you hate this! I dare you!


That stock has me slobbering all over the place!!! It reminds me of why I like cherry so much.

I sent you a PM regarding a possible source. Let me know if you find out anything.


William Berger

True courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

The courageous may not live forever, but the timid do not live at all.
30 December 2005, 19:39
Customstox
Damn, that is purrrrty.


Chic Worthing
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30 December 2005, 21:28
333_OKH
See Chic, like M1Tanker now I remember why it was I have been suck a pain in the arse about this cherry search!

A life long search for the perfect cherry!
30 December 2005, 21:54
tonto
I have made bows, war clubs, a muzzleloader and done some carving of blackcherry. It looks fantastic once it darkens. Sunlight is the only thing I have gotten to darken it the way i like it. I dont see it often with much figuer if its big enough for a rifle.
Is what we call blackcherry the same as the cherry they use in furniture?
Did you ever try and find out who supplies Dixie gunworks with cherry stocks? I got a very nice piece from them once.
Dean
30 December 2005, 22:24
333_OKH
The cherry we are talking about is the same as the black cherry, and the cherry in furniture.

(Prunus serotina)
31 December 2005, 02:32
jimmyd223
Well somebody has to say it thumbdown sorry but that piece of wood belongs on my end table and not my rifle stock. This is not to say it is not laid out well but the damn color wants to make me puke!!!!!!!

Here is my idea of a drop dead,killer stock on a 340 by Frank wells.






31 December 2005, 02:37
333_OKH
That is a great peice of English walnut, for sure!!!!!

Just like almost every custom wood rifle on GunsAmerica, and GunBroker, and in Cabela's, and that is my point. Walnut is a fabulous wood. I have a few thousand pounds of it all together in a drying shed right now, but I want something different! Maple, been there done it. Mrytle [pepperwood], I just do not like, and lets not even get into the leadxotics!
07 January 2006, 08:21
333_OKH
I still have not found the cherry! I have a few specific and I have Dunlap actively looking for my piece and I cannot find out from other dealers if they even have highly figured wood or not?

I think ultimately he will have to be the one that help me.