True Story: The Model 70 and the Walnut

[bushmaster1313]

As purchased:





After using my grandfather's trick of rubbing scratched furniture with the meat of a walnut:

[gregintenn]

Nice featherweight, and a very interesting tip!

[LOBO]

Great rifle!! Looks like that ol' trick worked

[Raider]

Meat of a walnut, huh? Neat idea. Thanks

Charlie

[rimfired]

Curly or tiger striped walnut is much more rare than maple.
Nice piece of wood and the walnut oil from the nut did a nice job. Great stock! I have a Rem 870 that has tiger stripe walnut. I love that look!

[DeathGrip]

Great looking wood!!!!

Grandpa's know things.

Thanks for sharing.

[bushmaster1313]

Keep the meat and the oil out of the checkering.
Rub the walnut back and forth in the direction of the grain
Works best with shallow scratches in the direction of the grain.
Start with light pressure and increase as necessary.
Start in an inconspicuous part of the stock to make sure nothing funky will happen with your particular stock
work the oil into the stock with your hand to even the color.

[sceva]

Do you use a Black Walnut or an English Walnut?

[bushmaster1313]

Originally Posted by sceva

Do you use a Black Walnut or an English Walnut?

Diamond Brand California Walnuts

[rburg]

Originally Posted by bushmaster1313

Diamond Brand California Walnuts

Those are white walnuts, of fruit and walnut fame (from Kali). Its autumn/fall. Go for a drive with your eyes open. Find a place where walnut trees have dumped their nuts. They look like green tennis balls. Take along a pair of gloves and a plastic shopping bag. Pick up a few dozen and bag them. They'll impart an interesting smell to your car. And they'll tip over and roll everyplace! Then get home and put them in a gunny sack to dry for a few months. Then take the remains to the wood pile ( or mulch pile) with a ball peen hammer, knock the hulls off. Then with a steel block, hit the nuts hard and they'll break. Then pick the meat out with nut picks.

If you don't know all of the above and have the tools to do it, you're clearly not wealthy or a dirty old man.

I still have my fathers steel block he found in the 1920s! Its out in the garage, waiting patiently for me to come play. He found it while walking home from school back then. He had to carry it for the remains of the 5 miles he walked to school each day, rain, snow, hot or cold. Personally, I like the block (cold rolled). But I'd just buy one these days. And I have an anvil I keep pretty nice. It'd work, too.

[KAC]

My dad used a plow weight, about 10 pounds. Would set it on the dining room table and crack walnuts and macadamia nuts all evening long.