02 September 2013, 21:04
butchlocwild piece of maple
this martini is in 17 ackley hornet with about the wildest piece of maple i've ever screen. the basketweave checkering just fits this piece
03 September 2013, 01:02
OLBIKERI think that is called quilted Maple.It is almost 3d when you look at it.
03 September 2013, 02:37
Use Enough GunBottom rifle is quilted maple in this pic. Others are top to bottom: Tiger myrtle, Fiddleback Bastogne Walnut, and Fiddleback Myrtle.
03 September 2013, 04:34
npd345if anyone is looking for some high end maple, christrees has quite a bit.
I have seen some pretty spectacular pieces of it at his place!
Shane
05 September 2013, 07:03
John303.Very nice rifles, maple has some of the most "unusual" fancy grain imaginable. I just picked up a piece that is absolutely wild, burl and all.
Hard to decide on what it would not be just "too much", kind of leaning towards a Weatherby Mk V and in a thumbhole style perhaps.
If you don't mind me asking who supplied the thumbhole stocks shown here?
--- John
19 September 2013, 01:04
GunCatA dear friend that had a penchant for nice wood on his long guns once referred to that kind of maple as “being selected from a tree where the forces of nature had run amuck”. He would have loved to have wood like that on an 18th century flintlock fowling piece.
24 October 2013, 12:39
209jonesThere is a store up here that had a nice selection of the quilted maple big enough for guitar backs, barely thick enough for a stock. I shivered when I saw that stuff.
If I could come up with another decent fiddleback/birdseye piece, I'd be one happy camper.
I passed on one about 3 yrs ago, still kicking myself on that one, likely could have got 4 stocks for singleshots or shotguns out of it.
25 October 2013, 01:18
John303.If you are looking for maple blanks contact Cecil Fredi. He has some very unusual maple blanks on hand.
Purchased a couple from him just lately, "unbelievable" that tree could produce such a thing.
Tell him what you are looking for and price range and he will forward some pics.
I suppose I could take some pics of my purchases and forward to someone who can post them here. --- John