I recently purchased this HW100 from a collector. Has seen very minimal use. It's serial number shows it to be made between 2012-2013. What sold me was the uniqueness of the stock. That's where my question comes in. I have another HW100 in walnut. I can only find that these were offered in walnut or synthetic, yet this one is in tiger maple !! Putting it side by side with the walnut stock, it's is identical! All the cutouts, fingertip reliefs in the forest oak, every notch, everything. I can't find ANY name on it to indicate aftermarket or OEM. Seller is getting up in years, and memory fails him. He thought it may have been a limited edition that was won in a contest back then? It is SUPER nice, but it's history evades me. Any help or ideas ?? I have NEVER seen another like it... thanks.
Mystery HW100 origin
- Thread starter erock
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Sorry, I can't give any confirmation of the origin but just a wondering aloud sort of comment......a stock duplicator could have been used to simply copy the oem stock. From vids, they seem to operate on multiple axis, with a fingertip sort of thing "tracing" the lines of the OEM stock and a cutter taking corresponding bites out of a blank. They seem to produce a nearly identical stock, and maybe where your tiger maple stock came from.
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I can only see half of the stock, but yours seems to be quite a bit darker tones. This is pretty light. I took the pics in the shade, and in the direct sun, almost shimmers with the stripe figuring....
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Like Franklink said it was done on stock duplicator machine!
And a very fine job of it too!
Looks awesome and a real keeper.
HW to my knowledge never offered anything like that from the factory!
Paul Watts has a couple videos on YouTube using the duplicator he has making Springer stocks!
And a very fine job of it too!
Looks awesome and a real keeper.
HW to my knowledge never offered anything like that from the factory!
Paul Watts has a couple videos on YouTube using the duplicator he has making Springer stocks!
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That is a really interesting concept and entirely feasible. Wouldn't that run afoul of copyright laws? If not, Wouldn't they WANT to have their name on it? It's REALLY nice !!
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I would think it's a limited run factory stock, they do that at times, now it's the Laminated stocks, it a keeper and an excellent find, congrats, they are fine guns.
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According the the person I know who does such work, no. Not if you own the stock for your personal use and wish to have an exact copy for your personal use, no issue. These days machines are much better and with a pro shop your chance of getting your old stock back w/out bunches of stylis marks is pretty good. Laser for the "checkering".
John
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How long has this kind of duplicator been around ? The owner said that he's had this one for years. What that means exactly, is rather vague. I could not pin him down to many specifics..... This is a really interesting "dig" for information !! When nothing gets documented, it's up to investigation & speculation.
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