Thanks for sharing another part of your process for making your rifles.
Question: once you cut the boards (or the rifle blanks) do you seal the ends with anything and if so, what is it? My hobby is wood bowl turning and I get all my wood as firewood and have been looking at using a sealer of sorts to prevent cracks in the bowl blanks once I get them roughed out.
We immediately seal the end grain of the stock blanks with Anchorseal. It is a wax based product that seems to do a pretty good job. Cracks can develop in less than an hour if they aren't sealed.
I've also used wood glue smeared on the ends and it seems to do a decent job.
Jim
