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twistedtree
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Hard to find Curly woods for stocks
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January 12, 2011, 07:44:49 PM »
There is a guy out near Pymatooning Lake in Ohio that deals with the Amish saw mills, that has a lot of the Curly Woods that you might be looking for. Look him up on the net his name is Kevin at
www.curlymaplewood.com
and tell him that Dave sent you.
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GrampaJack
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January 13, 2011, 12:11:07 AM »
In addition to what Dave has provided, if you are in N. E. Ohio, or there abouts, you can deal directly with the Amish at Trumbul Hardwoods in Middlefield, Ohio. Lots of exotic wood direct from the kiln and very reasonable. Jack
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twistedtree
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January 13, 2011, 01:30:25 AM »
Just talker to Kevin today and he said he has some 8/4 Curly Cherry availible now and lots of 1/4 sawn sycemore, is this wood used in the stocks? He said that the Curly Black Walnut is very hard to find, but when he does it doesn't last long.
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Dane Lund
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January 13, 2011, 04:34:54 AM »
Upon looking at his site, there's just not much that would be of sufficient size for a full stock rifle. Most are no where near thick enough. I saw one that was spectacular, but was only 2" thick, and already sold.
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January 13, 2011, 05:43:18 AM »
Comments of the Resident Forester
.... Sycamore is what's known as a diffuse porous hardwood, or one that has interlocking wood fibers. All woods used for stocks on original longrifles as well as contemporary pieces ie Maple, Walnut, Ash, Cherry, the rare Oak, Elm etc, are ring porous with straight wood fibers that do not interlock. Overall quality of Sycamore wood isn't in the same league with those species we normally use for stocks. The one thing that it is used almost exclusively for is drawer runners on wooden furniture having drawers. If you have good quality wooden furniture with drawers the chances are about 100% the side boards or runners are Sycamore. This interlocking grain is like a pig snout....it just will not wear out! Other than this one speciality use, Sycamore usually ends up in railroad crossties, boxes and crates and other low value products using low grade hardwood lumber.
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twistedtree
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January 13, 2011, 04:42:43 PM »
Thanks for all the info,I know that he has sold some of the sycimore to guitar makers for tops also.
Thanks again
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