Cherry

[Swindler1]

One more if I may. Mock up of cherry grips. What do you think of the wood?

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[danski26]

Very nice!

[songdog53]

they look super!

[Rick Hodges]

I have always loved cherry. The color is beautiful and warm but the figure is always disappointing to me. I have cut tree forks and stumps of both wild and cultivated cherry trees that were cut down hoping to find some fancy figure with no luck. I still like the wood.

[bigboredad]

those look great imho

[Wayne Smith]

Leave them out in the sun for a month or two, they will look a lot better.

[Rockchucker]

Beautiful wood! My Flat top is coming with plastic ivory on it, it won't last long.

[David LaPell]

Very nice. Do you ever do anything with apple? I have seen some knife scales made from it, but was wondering what grips would look like for a revolver.

[Swindler1]

Very nice. Do you ever do anything with apple? I have seen some knife scales made from it, but was wondering what grips would look like for a revolver. No I havn't tried apple. I had read that it tends to split.

[Swindler1]

Leave them out in the sun for a month or two, they will look a lot better.

I will give that a try. Thanks.

[StrawHat]

Chery is a good wood for grips, soft enough to carve easily and with decent grain. Figured cherry is hard to find but it is available, costly but available.

Apple is a good wood also. Properly aged, it does not split but getting it aged is the trick. I had access to trees that were felled and put some sections of trunk aside. That was ten or so years ago. Lots of splits but some usable wood in it.

Wood carvers like it because it can hold detail well. I saw a catchers mitt carved from apple. Complete with the ball. All the seams were there and it looked real.

[Green Frog]

I'm with the rest. The color and shape look good, but with that much work going into a set of custom grips, I would hope for a little more figure. Nonetheless, they are pretty!
:D

Froggie

[Jack Stanley]

That looks nice , like they say sorta warm lookin' . Of the stocks I have the one on my Garand has about the best figure to it . The wood came from the field out back , it seemed like a waste turn it all into firewood .

Jack

[David LaPell]

Oh good, I have a defunct apple tree that needs to be removed and now I know what to do with part of the old trunk.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

I was working on the liner Queen Mary many years ago and I was admiring the beautiful figyured wood on the counter in the main ball room so I asked a cabinet maker standing nearby what it was and he said it was burl elm. I never would have thought it. I was disappointed that I didn't see one square inch of walnut on that entire rusty old bucket. There was lots of mahogany which never has any figure in it. .

[StrawHat]

Oh good, I have a defunct apple tree that needs to be removed and now I know what to do with part of the old trunk.

David,

I cut the trunk into sections about 4 feet long and sealed the ends with wax. Left them out (under cover and off the ground) for a couple of years before I moved them into the garage loft. Left them there for a couple more years before I cut them into workable sizes. My trunks were from ancient trees that needed ladders to pick and were quite thick through the trunk but the modern trees should cure about the same.

[Wayne Smith]

Oh good, I have a defunct apple tree that needs to be removed and now I know what to do with part of the old trunk.


David, anything that checks and splits will be wonderful for smoking meat if you or anyone you know has a smoker.