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 !!!!

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

Well I got it from the firm that sold it. It was done by Maurice Ottmar.

Tell me you hate this! I dare you!

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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.

Damn, that is purrrrty.

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!

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

The cherry we are talking about is the same as the black cherry, and the cherry in furniture.

(Prunus serotina)

Well somebody has to say it 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.

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!

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.