stock wood

[camerl2009]

so i got a few projects going the double and a single .410

one problem stocks we have some lumber mills where im at so i can get just about any wood i need but i here some say that i need to cure it for a few years  

so what to do the .410 is up first with a round barrel(from a old cooey single shot)

but i dont have years to wait on wood witch way to go here

[westerner]

Buy dry wood.  Cant elaborate on it because it's that simple.


          Joe.

[camerl2009]

Buy dry wood.  Cant elaborate on it because it's that simple.


          Joe.

so just about anything from the lumber mill them  its all kiln dried some maple of some sort i guess

[Dphariss]

Buy dry wood.  Cant elaborate on it because it's that simple.


          Joe.

so just about anything from the lumber mill them  its all kiln dried some maple of some sort i guess

Order a stock blank from somewhere.
Dry is not the whole story it must be old enough to be stable as well.
If the wood is dry but not stable its going to move anyway.

Dan

[Old Ford2]

Hey Cam,
I'm sure you can find some aged dry wood in your area ( just look around ) somebody has some.
I often find it in my area ( Winchester, Ont. )
Some farmer, wood worker, wood broker, cabinet maker ( Bury wood supply ) do not waste your time at Home Depot/ Rona/ Lowes
 Prices usually are very fair.
If you are near a Busy Bee tool sales store, they can put you in contact with a good wood supplier.
Best regards
Old Ford

[camerl2009]

Hey Cam,
I'm sure you can find some aged dry wood in your area ( just look around ) somebody has some.
I often find it in my area ( Winchester, Ont. )
Some farmer, wood worker, wood broker, cabinet maker ( Bury wood supply ) do not waste your time at Home Depot/ Rona/ Lowes
 Prices usually are very fair.
If you are near a Busy Bee tool sales store, they can put you in contact with a good wood supplier.
Best regards
Old Ford

well the lumber mills here do coustom cuts for things like cabinets


i looked at stock blanks but i dont like the shape at all im making a shotgun not a rifle and shiping is alot for a over sized item like that

i would never go to homedepot for stock wood 

[Dr. Tim-Boone]

There are stock wood suppliers that have very large varieties of cuts and will cut specially if needed...from their stock of stable and well dried wood.... anything else is a $#@*-shoot unless you really know a lot and have a lot of experience with wood.

[camerl2009]

well shiping is alot for a stock and im looking for a more shotgun stock and not a fowler or rifle

more of my own unique stock shape then anything (i dont like most flitlock muzzleloader stocks the shape is a little uncomfortable for me )

im sure i can get what i need locally to save my money for things other then shiping  

[westerner]

well shiping is alot for a stock and im looking for a more shotgun stock and not a fowler or rifle

more of my own unique stock shape then anything (i dont like most flitlock muzzleloader stocks the shape is a little uncomfortable for me )

im sure i can get what i need locally to save my money for things other then shiping  

I have western maple and walnut blanks.   Have nice figured WM blanks that might work for you.  Western Maple is not the best maple, but may work for you.  I also have plain grade blanks that are inexpensive. I'll PM my number to you. Can send pictures. 

                    Joe.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

I built my first muzzle loader when I was 14.  It was a flintlock pistol, and I bought a piece of walnut from a hardwood dealer in London, Ontario, for $3.65...enough to cut two matching pistol stocks.  It worked out for me, and it might for you too.  And, it might not.

[camerl2009]

well im still looking for a good sorce for some stock wood locally if a had years to do this i would just go out with a bow saw a cut a nice big branch out of the sugar maple in the back  but i dont and i dont have a saw to make a blank that way

i cant seem to find any blanks wide enough for a double barrel flintlock dixie gun works had some but thay dont now

i only have one mill here and i dont know if thay will have what i need 

[Old Salt]

Pecatonica River sells stocks for more modern long guns, post long rifle period.  You might give them a try.

Leo     

[TPH]

well im still looking for a good sorce for some stock wood locally if a had years to do this i would just go out with a bow saw a cut a nice big branch out of the sugar maple in the back   but i dont and i dont have a saw to make a blank that way

i cant seem to find any blanks wide enough for a double barrel flintlock dixie gun works had some but thay dont now

i only have one mill here and i dont know if thay will have what i need  

Figure out what you want and put an ad in the local paper if you really have to buy locally. Otherwise you will have to do what everyone else does - order from a known and reliable supplier. And, of course, pay the price.

Have you asked anyone at the local yard/sawmill? If they don't have what you want or need maybe they will have what you want at a price you like.

[bob in the woods]

You are in S.W. Ontario. Check small mills out here in Eastern Ontario, or Quebec,where the sugar maple
forests are the norm. Maple syrup producers have cut out more than a few trees over the last while. I got some nice 1/4 sawn instrument wood from a local farmer with a band saw mill. This was cut some 10 years ago as a result of the " ice storm" that devastated the sugar maple forests here in the east.
" Lee Valley Tools" in Ottawa often has notices re wood suppliers. It might be worth giving them a call.
Nice wood at low cost is by chance in my experience, which is why I'm always on the hunt!  Some of the wood I'm using now is from stuff I got 20+ years ago.  If you need a nice piece of wood for use right now, I'd expect to pay the going rate.  It's worth it. [good investment too...wood I used to buy for $75 to $ 100
10 years ago, is $ 300 , $400 and up now. The really nice stuff is 4 figures.