i live in Texas and am interested in seeing if anyone knows of any companies who you can send a piece of timber to so they can make a flintlock rifle stock from it. Anyone have any ideas..?
Thanks for the avenues to look into!I THINK Jim Chambers has someone who can do it. Their contact info is in this link:
http://www.flintlocks.com/order.htm
However, Pecatonica in Rockford, IL advertises they will carve your wood into a full stock for $ 100.00.
http://longrifles-pr.com/services.shtml
Hope this helps,
Gus
It's done all the time, but the folks who ship what are essentially big "pieces of trees" around to be custom shaped by hand into longrifle stocks have already left bargain hunters waayyyy behind in the rear view mirror of life.I appreciate the suggestions. I bet it would cost a mint to send bois darc through the mail lol
i live in Texas and am interested in seeing if anyone knows of any companies who you can send a piece of timber to so they can make a flintlock rifle stock from it. Anyone have any ideas..?
Try three or four years of drying and the end grain has to be painted or sealed to prevent checking cracks developing and ruining the blank.Yeah I knew it would have to dry for a minimum of a year depending on the wood fhickness. I have a lot of Bois D’arc trees in my yard and I know they have and still are used to make bows with and I thought it would make a beautiful and very durable gun stock. As I don’t have the tools to do it myself I didn’t know if anyone might know of a company that would make it for me.
One of the members of my Gun Club has a lot of Osage Orange (Bois d'Arc) trees on his property. He makes bows and would not consider using that wood for a gun stock. The gun makers in our club agree.
Check out http://www.knobmountainmuzzleloading.com/stocks.html and see what they can do. And I'm with the others on the use of bois d'arc for gun stocks.i live in Texas and am interested in seeing if anyone knows of any companies who you can send a piece of timber to so they can make a flintlock rifle stock from it. Anyone have any ideas..?
I have cut more osage trees than I can remember to make bows, all osage logs have a surprise inside, seldom a good one good, definitely not gun stock wood. Almost all osage logs have wind shakes in them which limit the clear, usable wood for lumber.
Yep I have cut tons of it, literally.
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