The prettiest custom mauser guess what wood

[dirkdiggler]

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This is a custom mauser that has at least a thousand dollar piece of wood on it.....once in a lifetime find..let me know what you think....:)..it is a keeper....30.06 on a m98.....best action ever made...:):):):):):):) sorry for the bad pics...they have no justice on the actual stock..let me know what u think.my friend is a picture hog. LOL

[nhrifle]

I've seen some Bastogne walnut that looked like that.

[Derenius]

It's birch, I bet!
In Swedish it's called masurbjörk, with the masur in the word being twisted wood, often the result of the birch growing in the higher mountains of the north. This type of wood is more often than not used for making knife handles in traditional Swedish knife making.
Right?

In any case, that stock is beautiful, and the price you mentioned, is way low, even if that was for the raw, not yet dry wood...

[dirkdiggler]

It's birch, I bet!
In Swedish it's called masurbjörk, with the masur in the word being twisted wood, often the result of the birch growing in the higher mountains of the north. This type of wood is more often than not used for making knife handles in traditional Swedish knife making.
Right?

In any case, that stock is beautiful, and the price you mentioned, is way low, even if that was for the raw, not yet dry wood...


nope not either one yet.. my dad built this rifle....thanks for looking ...this has to be the prettiest rifle I have ever owned.....thanks again
Shane

[nhrifle]

Well, whatever the wood, your dad did that tree proud. That's the best looking Mauser I have ever seen.

[gandydancer]

dirkdiggler. wasn't he a stuntman in some movies?

[dirkdiggler]

dirkdiggler. wasn't he a stuntman in some movies?
I wish I had the same name...I thought that if I could call myself the same name then I may be the same as on Boogie Nights...It doesn't work that way and now I am cursed with the sign on name....LOL

[Derenius]

Oh, come on then!? What is it? Maple?

[quack1]

My guess would be myrtle. Nice piece of wood.

[I'll Make Mine]

Looks a lot like myrtle, maybe from a burl, to my (mostly untrained) eye. My dad made a small coffee table for my grandmother out of a slab of that -- not sure which of my aunts wound up with that when she died...

[flounderman]

grain is tight, light color wood, crotch feather from a large crotch. I don't know what chesnut looks like, elm has more open grain, could be hickory?

[nekshot]

Could a poplar tree and wild cherry mated and this is their offspring? Very nice wood and well done.

[gewehrfreund]

Given your location, and since it's probably something unusual, I'll guess sweetgum or pawpaw.

[swheeler]

Beautiful stock! Chesnut?

[M-Tecs]

Don't know what it is but I wish it was mine!!

[dirkdiggler]

It is myrtle:)

[madsenshooter]

quack1 wins! If some of the other quacks I know were as good at guessing I wouldn't have a lot of my health problems.

[Uncle Grinch]

Myrtle?? Is this the same as crepe myrtle? That's what I use to knock my sprue plates open with. Matter of fact I just got through pruning them back and saved a few knockers and potential walking sticks.

If it's the same, crepe myrtle actually will "ring" when you rap the trunk with another object. Pretty hard wood.

[Hamish]

All I can tell you is that you would either have to be insane or the real deal to tackle that hunk. Lovely.

[TreeKiller]

Sycamore

[EMC45]

Crepe Myrtle is some HARD wood!!

[Uncle Grinch]

I've seen what I thought were large crepe myrtles, but none were big enough to get a gunstock blank out of them. That must have been a very large tree (for a crepe myrtle).

[HollowPoint]

It is myrtle:)



If I had to choose between her and this rifle, I think I'd take the rifle though.
It's a beautiful piece of work.

HollowPoint

[Blammer]

maple

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

That Gun is beautiful for sure !!!

I've bought a couple of pretty wooden plates (food dish type of plate)
that were made of myrtle wood...very pretty stuff.
Some day I plan to cut them up for handgun grips or knife scales.
Jon

[I'll Make Mine]

Myrtle?? Is this the same as crepe myrtle? That's what I use to knock my sprue plates open with. Matter of fact I just got through pruning them back and saved a few knockers and potential walking sticks.

If it's the same, crepe myrtle actually will "ring" when you rap the trunk with another object. Pretty hard wood.

Might be -- the same tree will have different names different places, sometimes (like osage orange being called "bodark" down south -- which, it seems derives from French, "bois d'arc" or "bow wood"). As I recall, it's a swamp-growing evergreen, but not a conifer (but it's been forty years or more since I saw that table, it was in Oregon, and I don't know that I've ever seen a live tree of that species). I do recall myrtle haveing a sparkle to it which, I was told, was due to incorporating mica grains into the wood as the tree grew.

[TreeKiller]

Called Myrtle in Oregon Pepper wood when you go south to California.