Has any one used padauk for an f class stock?

[ddavis510]

I'm a luthier and I have a lot of it. It's super dense and I love it for guitars but I wonder if it would make a good stock? If anyone has used it what did your rifle weigh in at upon completion?(better yet what did the stock weigh?) I'm concerned about making weight.

Thanks for the insight,
Dan

 

[madderg]

It's a great wood that works well, very strong but a might heavy...I did one but I'm not worried about weight. It is really beautiful when finished.

 

[ddavis510]

Thanks. I'd like to make 17 lbs so I can shoot lg as well as F open. Think that's possible?

 

[Forum Boss]

Absolutely. Check out this beauty by Irish rifle builder Enda Walsh:

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/12/300-blaser-magnum-barrel-block-beast-ireland/

FYI, both "Padauk" and "Padouk" are accepted, with the first perhaps more common in the USA. See: Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.[1][2] Most species of Pterocarpus yield valuable timber traded as padauk (or padouk); other common names are mukwa or narra. The scientific name is Latinized Ancient Greek and means "wing fruit", referring to the unusual shape of the seed pods in this genus.

 

[madderg]

I hope I attach a picture... it is beautiful wood and this pic doesn't do it justice.

 

[ddavis510]

Hey Mike,
Whats that rig weigh in at? Do you know?
Thanks,
Dan

 

[Ringostar]

I tried using bubinga. It came out very heavy. I just did a new one with a maple core and bocote sides. If I get it inletted in time, I hope to use it at the Berger match.

 

[Uthink Uknow]

Ringo
Depending on which maple you use that has to be one heavy stock. I have used Padauk and Bubinga but only as accents. They are both stable and beautiful woods but on the heavy side for the stocks that I would use. I once had some bird's eye maple that my son tried to do something with. This included cooking a drill bit and he declared that wood so damned hard the only way to put a hole through it would be with a bullet and then it would destroy the bullet anyway.

While I was posting the Padauk F-Class appeared. I love it.

 

[JRS]

Padauk isn't that heavy. I have used virtually every type of hardwood to make handles for knives, both raw, and stabilized. Drilling holes through the hard woods is a piece of cake.

 

[Ackman]

Padouk isn't particularly hard and it's not a heavy wood, no heavier than walnut. Color is about what it's got, pretty for awhile but darkens with age. I wouldn't use it for a gunstock, it has no grain to speak of and other than color doesn't look like much.

 

[JRS]

Padouk isn't particularly hard and it's not a heavy wood, no heavier than walnut. Color is about what it's got, pretty for awhile but darkens with age. I wouldn't use it for a gunstock, it has no grain to speak of and other than color doesn't look like much.

Exactly!

It is great to use for accents. I have a few longbows with Padauk accents in different areas of the riser.