Black Locust / Question

[Rasch Chronicles]

I forget when exactly, but in the last couple of decades when that huge hurricane went up the east coast, quite a few Live Oaks were uprooted. Several shipwrights from up north came down specificly to harvest the lumber for the knees, ribs, and crooks as you mentioned.

I've got it in my head that a southern chunkgun has to have a Live Oak stock... I think we were posting about oddball stockwoods, and that idea just kinda got stuck in my head.

That and a Bubinga stock...
and an ebonized walnut stock...


Regards,
Albert A Rasch
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[westerner]

All English men of war -ships of the line, were made from Live Oak. Whole forests were surveyed and inventoried. These forests were off limits. Saved for ship building far in advance.

                                Joe.