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Originally Posted by SixgunStrumpet
Thanks, there has been speculation here about what wood it is. Do you think it was stained? It looks like Mike Priwer a while back posted a set of grips that have a similar pattern to the wood, but are a lot more blonde.
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You can see that maple was offered in the brochure, if these are birds-eye maple (and I still think they are) they are stained inside and out as seen in the comparison with Hammedown's unstained maple grips.
I've made a lot of longrifle stocks from striped maple, always stained the wood and don't personally care for unstained maple even as furniture. I usually stained inside the lock mortice and barrel channel as the unstained contrast was to stark.
Stained maple flintlock fowler, 20 ga. circa 1984
