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Started by postville, July 19, 2011, 10:01:03 PM

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postville

Looking for some information on sawing rifle stock material. I have heard the best flame figure is in the roots, is this so? How do you deal with the dirt?
I have saved a few crotches, is it just luck to get solid material? Do you saw with the "y" horizontal or vertical?
Is anything other than walnut used?
I plan on using end coat wax and saw about 2.5 inches thick, 4 foot long.  Thanks, Bob
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Tom

What little experience I have in sawing rifle stock blanks, I was told to look for the figure in the root crown, where the root leaves the stump, incorporating both the stump and the root.  Sawing stumps is just having to deal with dirt.  You can clean the outside, but there will be encapsulated dirt and rocks if you are sawing the portion below ground level.

When sawing crotches, you get the most figured boards by sawing the "y" horizontal, as if it were a pair of pants on an ironing board.

DRB

Curly or birdseye maple makes real nice rifle stocks as well. Where you live thats about all I can think you might find.  2.5 inches might be a little thin for rifle stocks most makers like them closer to 3 inches thick. Shotgun stocks you can get by with 2.5 inches.

Magicman

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Norm

Here's Jeff showing the proper alignment for sawing crotch wood.



;D


CalebL

Quote from: Norm on July 20, 2011, 07:52:32 AM
Here's Jeff showing the proper alignment for sawing crotch wood.



;D



Looks like a bunch of pulp wood to me.   :)
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ljmathias

So how did this sawing experiment turn out?  Might be a new twist on the use of a wood chipper as seen in the movie "Fargo."  Not to get too gory but was there a lot of splatter and splash, and how about figure in the slabs obtained?

Now might be a good time to turn to food, but you'd have to have a pretty strong stomach.   :D

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Raider Bill

According to FF lore the crotch-wood pictured here has like new shoulder wood.
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Jim_Wahl

I'd like to know where you get those "self loading" logs!
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LeeB

You need to turn that one around asn saw that knot head last.
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Lift the clamp and see how serious a planker he is.  :)
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