Show some beautiful wood, if you will...Part 2

[McCloud]

Many beautiful pieces in this thread, but I was really impressed by how on this stock the grain could still be seen through (behind/under I'm no expert here) the wood in the handgrip where the wood has been stippled (? Sorry but again no expert and couldn't remember exactly what that gripping pattern is called on a long gun). That looks amazing to me! Now, I don't spend much time looking at gun stocks, so perhaps it's more common than I think, but I don't recall seeing many stocks where the beauty and pattern of the wood could clearly be seen through the checkering like this one can!

Couldn't post this photo in the original thread, so here is my wood contribution. This is the nicest Circassian Walnut I have ever encountered, on a 1980 Grade V Browning Citori 20 gauge. Circassian Walnut is world renown as the benchmark for gunstocks with its beautiful colors, graining and feathering. My cell phone photo does its beauty an injustice!

 

[wundudnee]

Compared to some of the beautiful firearms on this thread my stuff is pretty low rent. However, sometimes a run of the mill gun gets a little pretty spot on it's stock. This is a Winchester model 72A .22 that looks pretty good I think.

Here is A single shot Winchester model 60A with some grain showing.

 

[kenv1950]

Not sure if you consider them beautiful , made a couple sets out of boredom.

 

[Birdgun]

Not sure if you consider them beautiful , made a couple sets out of boredom.

kenv1950, I consider them beautiful also. Well done!

God bless,
Birdgun

 

[Raven312]

I bought these grips before I even bought the gun that they were for. They look just as good on the pistol as I expected them to.

I also bought this shotgun purely because I was seduced by the wood (of course, I was in the market for a shotgun).

Sent from my Note 5, which thinks it can spell better than I can...

 

[TDC]

I love to see all these examples of highly figured wood….

Occasionally some of us can “luck out” and find some well figured factory wood on some
inexpensive firearms that can, with some effort, change the whole appearance of the gun….

I found three such very inexpensive Russian Baikal shotguns that I believe possess such
uncommon wood. I re-worked the wood and refinished them, and I believe, ended up with three
shotguns that appear to be much more refined and expensive.

These stocks were originally shipped with the firearms and were apparently random additions
in their shipments by the factory…..

Of course these stocks don't measure up to the truly amazing examples of wood shown here but
they show what can be done to enhance some "pick-up truck" guns....

The over and under is a 20…. The two side-by-sides are in 12 and 410…..

 

[Culina]

Circassian Walnut from Bulgaria, really nice stuff but hard to get a hold of. These blanks got cut up into little pieces as well.

 

[fyimo]

Custom Mauser 25-06

Factory Savage American 114 stock

H&R 300 Ultra Rifle in 243 Win

 

[kenv1950]

1950 Joh. Springer Mauser

 

[Doc Hollywood]

458 Lott Dumoulin mauser

I'm your huckleberry.

 

[David LaPell]

The factory stock on my Remington Model 33 single shot .22 LR, nicest wood I have ever seen on a basic little rifle.







My Marttiini Golden Lynx





One of my Opinel knives, I always add some Tru-oil to these.

 

[FifthWheel]

Here's my Ruger SP101. I had to get something to fit my big mits better. I like these, they fit me and the gun perfectly.

 

[TXSWFAN]

Weatherby .460 in mesquite.