Wood Lottery Winners...Original Factory Stock, Wood, and Finishes.

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A.G.R said:
Better than Lewis getting a 2x4

One of the nicest factory Tommy stocks I’ve seen. I’ve owned several …walnut and Venom Timahawks.
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Thank you. Actually, I cheated a little here too! This is how it looked when I got it. eBay pictures. It was in very good condition when I got it but I knew that walnut needed some help so I stripped, stained, and refinished it. BTW a rare .25 and nobody else bid on it. Awesome gun in .25 @ 23 ft lb. FTT's 720 fps. My favorite off hand plinker. Soda cans get tossed by it especially hitting the thicker metal on the bottom. Fun gun. I had it out Friday and Sunday.
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RM100GUY said:
Did you win the wood lottery with a surprisingly nice stock/wood? Love to see some exView attachment 409789amples of ORIGINAL FACTORY PRODUCTION GUNS WOOD "AND" FINISHES, just as from the factory. Two examples of "my lucky win" Daystate Huntsman Regal and a Theoben Elinimator both in .20 cal...just turned out that way....Know there is a bunch out there so let's see those ORIGINAL gems!View attachment 409791View attachment 409792View attachment 409797
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a friend of mine makes stocks , He has paid upwards of $2500 for a blank chunk of wood .
 
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Do you know where the figured wood comes from? Fiddleback grain, the vertical stripes that after go throughout a stock, can be pretty much in an entire tree. But big "splotches" of figured grain come from crotches and some of the most interesting grain IMHO comes from the butt. Sawyers do not normally keep the portion of the tree that is in the ground because embedded stones can damage their blades. But it can also produce the most interesting look buttstocks. Fiddleback wood is normally stable but the other types of figured grain are not. It also may not be be nearly as strong. In the butt end of a traditional stock not much strength is needed. But a forend of really nice crotch or butt figure might be a bit delicate.

Figured grain is more rare, of course. I used to buy wood at a local place where he stored wood in tents he built using PVC tubing and tarps. He was pretty shrewd, however. He had a big planer and would at least skip plane the boards to separate the figured wood out and then charge at least twice as much for it. He bought it in large quantity from a mill and they didn't sort. He retired. The place I go now does not sort. Maybe I need to make a trip and get me something with some figure for my next stock project. It's pretty cold here this week but I'm thinking my P35-25 needs a better stock. I have a hunk of 8/4 cherry but I don't think it has any figure. It does have sap wood, however, and that contrast adds some interest.

This is not a factory stock but I thought I should add a couple pictures of the stock I made for my Prod using wood from the butt of a large oak that I used to have in the back yard. I dubbed it my killing tree. The wood has some curly grain as you can see in the grip and also has some spalted areas (fancy name for rot) in the forend piece.

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KWK said:
Thank you. Actually, I cheated a little here too! This is how it looked when I got it. eBay pictures. It was in very good condition when I got it but I knew that walnut needed some help so I stripped, stained, and refinished it. BTW a rare .25 and nobody else bid on it. Awesome gun in .25 @ 23 ft lb. FTT's 720 fps. My favorite off hand plinker. Soda cans get tossed by it especially hitting the thicker metal on the bottom. Fun gun. I had it out Friday and Sunday. View attachment 410348View attachment 410350View attachment 410351
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Let me know when it’s for sale. I’ll give it good stable of mates … 🤣
 
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Doesn't surprise me that Daystate made a few winners here. I sold, (like an idiot) a Huntsman Regal .22 that I bought used for a song, that had what I would conservatively say was one of the finest looking stocks on ANY rifle I've ever seen. I wish I hadn't lost some pics when I got a new laptop, so no pics of it unless I have a backup somewhere. It was so good that when I advertised it around 1-2pm in the afternoon, by 5pm I had five offers to buy simply because of the stock. Needless to say, I got more than I paid for it. I was also in Arizona a while back and was at AOA and saw some really good looking DS rifles there too. I bought a rifle, don't remember the name now, electronic DS and they let me go through and pick the best wood. It was a looker too, but nothing like the Huntsman I stumbled onto. Love those pics. The guy that built the maple Beeman stock.... WOW!, that could take the prize for the best stock I ever saw! I'm a sucker for tiger.
 
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