Black walnut tree

[Twdmar]

Mcgee stocks still has some nice walnut blanks.

 

[McStocks]

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We have retired from making stocks and hardware several years ago and now as of March 1 for this year, we have also retired from selling Berger, Lapua, SK, and Vithtavuori products. We still have several items on our shelves that are available. You wil not see prices any more reasonable.

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[McStocks]

This was a big 'un! Bent the axles on my car trailer.

 

[Baka]

Thanks for all the replies the tree can stay where it’s at by the replies I’ve gotten.

 

[joshb]

This was a big 'un! Bent the axles on my car trailer.

Nice saw!! OSHA would not approve that support system!! Screw’em! Git’r done!

 

[Riesel]

My grandmother used to beat me senseless with willow tree switches. That accounts for some of the brain damage I suffer today. I was happier than a puppy with two peters when I finally got to cut that GD tree down!! Now I pay Mexican hookers good cash money to beat the hell out of me.

Made me Laugh OUT Loud

 

[joshb]

Made me Laugh OUT Loud

It made me cringe! We had a Willow tree, down the hill by the spring house. I was sent there many times to get a switch for my own punishment!

 

[jackieschmidt]

It's a living tree - leave it alone and let it go on living. You can readily find quality walnut stock blanks already available, of which you can actually see the grain pattern to help choose the one you want. Just do a Google search (link below) and you will find a wide range of availability and price:

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At the risk of sounding like a bleeding heart liberal, I agree with just let that tree alone.

A number of years ago, around Christmas time, there was a big news event surrounding the acquisition of a tree to decorate some location in the Nations Capital.

The selection committee found a huge beautiful evergreen on a local rural families front yard. The tree was humongous, and perfect in it’s symmetry. It was chosen. The people were astatic that their tree would become so prominen.

Then here comes the chain saw. The trip on the truck. The mounting. The decorations.........

then.......the dump.

I thought, why not send in a special team and decorate the tree where it stood, and where it lived.

I guess I’m getting old.

 

[msinc]

I just got this big burl up out of one of my ponds, where it sat underwater for about 16 years. We had a tropical storm, Isabella, go thru here in 2004 {???} and allowed the county to use our farm for a place to dump tree and brush refuse. They piled it up and burned it all. I didn't even know this thing was in with all of that stuff. It wouldn't burn so the guy on the excavator rolled it over the bank into the pond.
There is typically some very nice figured wood in these things. This is the largest by far that I have ever seen. No idea what it's worth, I will have to cut it up to get it on my sawmill. The damascus knives I made with handles made of burl wood.

 

[okie]

I always wanted a bois de arc stock myself---really hard stuff

 

[STS]

I always wanted a bois de arc stock myself---really hard stuff

You'd need a golf cart to haul the thing around in. Hedge weighs a ton per cubic centimeter.

 

[okie]

You'd need a golf cart to haul the thing around in. Hedge weighs a ton per cubic centimeter.

yeah--I had one sawed up--my buddy made a traditional plains indian bow and my father in law had a dobro made out of it--still have a good straigh piece or two. maybe make a thin model 7 stock???

 

[okie]

At the risk of sounding like a bleeding heart liberal, I agree with just let that tree alone.

A number of years ago, around Christmas time, there was a big news event surrounding the acquisition of a tree to decorate some location in the Nations Capital.

The selection committee found a huge beautiful evergreen on a local rural families front yard. The tree was humongous, and perfect in it’s symmetry. It was chosen. The people were astatic that their tree would become so prominen.

Then here comes the chain saw. The trip on the truck. The mounting. The decorations.........

then.......the dump.

I thought, why not send in a special team and decorate the tree where it stood, and where it lived.

I guess I’m getting old.

I hear you--Im a sucker for big ole water oaks and ancient cypress in the bottoms...

 

[butchlambert]

For figure you need the root ball. I bought 75 black walnut blanks from the estate of Red Cornelison. They were in the hay loft of his barn with spacers between each and the ends were tarred. Bonnie Cornelison said they had been there for over 50 years. Dried wood is not necessarily cured.
You would be much better off buying a walnut blank from a reputable supplier.

 

[Brians356]

If black walnut is so plentiful, why don't I recall seeing or hearing of any rifles stocked with it?
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[338 dude]

I just got this big burl up out of one of my ponds, where it sat underwater for about 16 years. We had a tropical storm, Isabella, go thru here in 2004 {???} and allowed the county to use our farm for a place to dump tree and brush refuse. They piled it up and burned it all. I didn't even know this thing was in with all of that stuff. It wouldn't burn so the guy on the excavator rolled it over the bank into the pond.
There is typically some very nice figured wood in these things. This is the largest by far that I have ever seen. No idea what it's worth, I will have to cut it up to get it on my sawmill. The damascus knives I made with handles made of burl wood.

Now those are some beautiful knives!!

 

[joshb]

If black walnut is so plentiful, why don't I recall seeing or hearing of any rifles stocked with it?
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Uhhh........
...and three more in the works.....

 

[joshb]

A few more...

 

[Rustytigwire]

Nice saw!! OSHA would not approve that support system!! Screw’em! Git’r done!

Proper work platform with clever camo handrails etc. 4 wheeler in foreground of pic. Real safety with just the photographic illusion of potential hazard.

I always wanted a bois de arc stock myself---really hard stuff

Bois d arc. Biggest one i have seen was on a walk in Battery Park in of all places...Newcastle Delaware.
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[Dgd6mm]

Josh, those rifles are beautiful.