Attachment 223647
Attachment 223648
It is going to be a 7mmSTW.
It took ~ 5 months to get the action, the stock, and the barrel.
Still waiting for the Scope to arrive.
I made the handle in an hour.
Attachment 223647
Attachment 223648
It is going to be a 7mmSTW.
It took ~ 5 months to get the action, the stock, and the barrel.
Still waiting for the Scope to arrive.
I made the handle in an hour.
Clark, That sure is some beautiful wood. Would really like to see a photo of the complete rifle. I'm a big fan of nice bolt guns!
Beautiful. The gold sets it off nicely.
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Thanks!
When my grandfather bought 5 acres on 1st avenue in Burien WA in 1924, it already had large black locust trees on the property line of an earlier larger homestead plot.
When I was little kid in the 1950s the utilities were constantly trimming them to keep them out of the telephone wires.
In ~ 1961, 1st avenue was broadened to 4 lanes and the trees were gone.
In 1980 I got a copy of understanding wood by Hoadley 1st edition
https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...ood+by+hoadley
In that book I learned that Black Locust was nearly the strongest wood that grows in America and was rot resistant enough to be used as fence posts by pioneers.
I have been picking up pieces of Black Locust from the ditch when trees are trimmed at road sides.
But for this burl bolt handle, I paid for the wood on Ebay.
Same for Osage Orange AKA bois d'arc. Indians used it for bows, pioneers for fence posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clark
Beautiful bolt handle!
You have some real talent there for doing neat things with wood that few seem to even think of, that's really nice and a REALLY nice piece of wood.
Nice to see you got one of Glen's actions. They are top quality.