New 6BR Walnut Laminate.

[wildcatter]

Right now this is a 22" custom barrel till I get the prchambered 1-10 b BR barrel for it, for factory class Varmint for score matches. I will be using it for some long range Vermin disposal as well.

Finally got the new stock ready for finishing. I've just put my first coat of build linseed/ mineral spirit conditioner on it. I'll sand this and repeat applying it using 0000 steel wool, rubing it in between sandings. Final coat I'll rub in with a cotton towel, then I'll put 3 or 4 coats of Deft urataine Satin on, sanding with 1000 grit wet dry paper between coats.

I sure hope it comes out good? I think Sharp Shooter Supply hit a home run on the Walnut Laminate, on his Varmint stock, pattern. I know he put a lot of hours cutting planing and sanding to lay up all the 90 degrees alternating grain layers.

We weren't sure how it would look, but paint was always an option till we saw it fresh out of the duplicator. That was when we knew it wouldn't be hidden with paint. It got better after rough sanding, then better after fine sanding, and now better after first coat of conditioner. I'm pretty sure it will get even better by next week.



More pictures to come, then we'll see how the new prechambered 26" 6BR barrel does, and report the good or bad on it.

 

[qec]

Is this generally available? It's beautiful. Looking for a wood stock for a Savage Model 10. Was going Microfit but I really like this

 

[wildcatter]

This was a stock I had to talk Fred into making. It was about twice the price of a stock he usually makes from laminated blanks commercially available. But told me enjoy it, just to many steps and time just getting the blank together.

 

[wildcatter]

Is this generally available? It's beautiful. Looking for a wood stock for a Savage Model 10. Was going Microfit but I really like this

This was a stock I had to talk Fred into making. It was about twice the price of a stock he usually makes from laminated blanks commercially available. But told me enjoy it, just to many steps and time just getting the blank together.

It is not just sawn strips, since every other layer the grain is running 90 degrees from the layer beside it. This meant after ripping enough pieces to build the blank. Half of them had to be ripped into 6 or 8" pieces, and then glue side by side to make it as long as the strips that run the full length.

The other cost is, saw dust! Every strip he ripped from the blank had almost that much waste in saw dust.

He let me know it would be a premium price before he agreed to do it. But once finished I ask him if he would do another in his 3" flat bottom Dog Tracker model. But he let me know, he is not making anymore, and if he did, the price would go up substantially.

This is primarily a gun smith, so he is not setup to build laminated blanks, and usually just buys the blanks, and cuts them from his patterns he already has for his stocks. That's just setit up and walk away while it is shaped. Building the blank requires all the strips cut, then planed both sides, then sanded both sides, then every other layer recut to short straps, glued to length, replaned, re sanded, weeks in a drier before starting, and well I think you get the picture.

Send him the blank,,,, you probably could get him to turn out any model he has made a pattern for, from hunting to Varmint, or benchrest.

But for now, this is a one of! It's also a fact that Walnut is lighter than the birtch, it's stronger, and with the alternating grain direction, well probably the stiffest stock available, more so than glass and Graphite, he has not tested Carbon Fiber, but it seems to be stiffer than my Scoville, as I can deflect the barrel farther in the barrel Chanel of my Scoville than I can in this Walnut stock.