Thanks for the suggestion High Noon, that's really something to think about. I Make this stock model since 2018 but of course that might be a good idea!
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I hope I wasn’t rude as your stocks are very beautiful! I was thinking yesterday could you engrave the butt plate or trigger guard with your logo like Signature Series 1 .
Beautiful wood is my weakness. Here is a quote from my very good friend Gary Ramburg who wrote a column entitled “The Warmth of Wood” for our Small Caliber News Magazine. Gary loved and knew wood and I dearly miss him. He taught me so much not just about wood but life as well.
“There are many things in this world with which a man can form an addiction. Some of the less evil and more common are women, work, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, sweets, and so forth. The harder more costly ones are marijuana, opium, hashish, heroin, and cocaine. THE worst, of course, is English walnut and that family of woods brought back to enslave mankind by Alexander the Great some three hundred years BC.”… Gary Ramburg
Beautiful wood is my weakness. Here is a quote from my very good friend Gary Ramburg who wrote a column entitled “The Warmth of Wood” for our Small Caliber News Magazine. Gary loved and knew wood and I dearly miss him. He taught me so much not just about wood but life as well.
“There are many things in this world with which a man can form an addiction. Some of the less evil and more common are women, work, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, sweets, and so forth. The harder more costly ones are marijuana, opium, hashish, heroin, and cocaine. THE worst, of course, is English walnut and that family of woods brought back to enslave mankind by Alexander the Great some three hundred years BC.”… Gary Ramburg
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Friend High Noon... You are so true! But... you miss one kind of "Stupidly" expensive woods... Turkish Walnut Root Wood.
I leave you all here the most "Expensive" turkish blanks i ever had in my hands... A Special order for a "Special" friend... But stupidly expensive.
This 2nd photos are from a very rare piece of Turkish also, but not so expensive.
This woods are Stunning... but a god piece of laminated wood makes the job and is very very stable.
Ricardo S
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Ricardo,
I feel gob smacked just looking at this wood. The wood along with the lines of your stock is just too much.
This is truly world class wood and stock design at its best.
TKH
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…oh mercy just when I thought I was making some progress with my figured wood addiction Ricardo shows us these spectacular stocks! I just called the addiction hot line and they assured me addiction is treatable, and many prevention and treatment approaches have been successful. However, they don’t seem to have an answer or solution for figured wood addiction……and they absolutely don’t have any answer for match rimfire addiction either which all of us suffer from. 
we all must be crazy!
we all must be crazy!This is the first time i post a video in this forum, i hope you can have a more clear idea about the stock i posted some photos.
The video was not edited and is made above my workbench at my workshop using my phone.
The finish on this stock is 100% oil, i used a "Blend" made by myself, the polishing and oil work takes me near 3 months to finish.
Hope you enjoy it.
The video was not edited and is made above my workbench at my workshop using my phone.
The finish on this stock is 100% oil, i used a "Blend" made by myself, the polishing and oil work takes me near 3 months to finish.
Hope you enjoy it.
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Truly magnificant timber along with the work man ship. The stock in the background also looks superb.
While I am here I wish all a Merry Christmas, and hope Santa brings you some shooting goodies and exceptional ammunition.
Cheers from Trevor from a wet (at the moment) North Queensland Australia.
While I am here I wish all a Merry Christmas, and hope Santa brings you some shooting goodies and exceptional ammunition.
Cheers from Trevor from a wet (at the moment) North Queensland Australia.
Is that also Root Wood ?. Until I saw your earlier post, I didn’t know there was such a thing. Great to learn new things
David, that is just another stunning stock and build!! Absolutely your no help to us wood addicts…lol…You’re so very fortunate. I have shot my good friend’s Saeed Al Maktoum factory Bleiker rifles in his tunnel range in Dubai. Fantastic actions and rifles with outstanding accuracy too!
Now to explain “root wood”. Here in the US when loggers come through and timber they typically cut the trees a couple feet above the ground. Then those that want the “root wood” come through with a backhoe and dig the tree root up. It’s very difficult work and hard on equipment for sure but that is where the most highly figured wood is typically found. I read an article years ago of a couple guys following logging crews around and digging the Black Walnut stumps. They would then load them up and head to a car wash to remove all the dirt and mud. Then to the sawmill and have someone in the know to properly cut out the beautiful stock blanks. Then they are stored in a controlled environment for long periods to dry properly. I’ve seen some stunning golden red sunburst with dark streaks Blank Walnut blanks from “root wood”.
We had a lumber crew timber our woods recently maybe I should still try to recover a few Black Walnut stumps. Hope this helps and thanks for sharing.
Now to explain “root wood”. Here in the US when loggers come through and timber they typically cut the trees a couple feet above the ground. Then those that want the “root wood” come through with a backhoe and dig the tree root up. It’s very difficult work and hard on equipment for sure but that is where the most highly figured wood is typically found. I read an article years ago of a couple guys following logging crews around and digging the Black Walnut stumps. They would then load them up and head to a car wash to remove all the dirt and mud. Then to the sawmill and have someone in the know to properly cut out the beautiful stock blanks. Then they are stored in a controlled environment for long periods to dry properly. I’ve seen some stunning golden red sunburst with dark streaks Blank Walnut blanks from “root wood”.
We had a lumber crew timber our woods recently maybe I should still try to recover a few Black Walnut stumps. Hope this helps and thanks for sharing.