If you go laminated, you could make a blank that has a hollow buttstock and save some weight.
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If you go laminated, you could make a blank that has a hollow buttstock and save some weight.
I am anxiously waiting on a picture of handgun or rifle stocks. I have a couple of candidates for some work in the future. james
Bodarc or Hedge Apple as some folks call it, grows green balls about the size of softballs , wood is very yellow, hard as a preachers $*#*- , split green . Burned by it's self it can burn a stove out. I use it but start the fire with a few pieces of cedar , then add a piece with other wood .
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This isn't Locust but it's one of Hedge/Bodarc that I recently completed.
That stock looks pretty cool.
Have you tried staining that wood with Iron Nitrate to see if the grain will pop out ?
No, I think I'm going to leave it. I have read about a product to use on the reciever that mimics color case hardening that I may try. Been busy with spring yard projects of late. My wife likes flowers and I like it when she's happy so no gunsmithing projects the last few days.
I scrape wood screws across a bar of soap for the same affect.
I have a plethora of locust(starfish type thorns- some 6”in length), Bois D’arc, Mesquite, and my favorite- Hackberry trees.
Cutting down a live Locust is fine if you like bloody poison pokes.
Cutting up a dead one is fine if you just like regular bloody pokes.
I just girdle them, they die, and a year or so later push them down or cut them up to burn in brush piles.
I’ll fight them like my granddad and dad did before me but there will still be Locust trees.
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