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Offline msb52

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Cherry Stock Help
« on: January 27, 2016, 12:17:07 AM »
Wanting to make a full stock rifle out of cherry. Trying to find out what rifle styles might have been made from cherry. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Cherry Stock Help
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2016, 12:39:11 AM »
 New England fowler.
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Offline frogwalking

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Re: Cherry Stock Help
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2016, 02:39:13 AM »
Tennessee mountain rifle.
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Offline L. Akers

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Re: Cherry Stock Help
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2016, 06:42:12 AM »
Look up the natural range of the American Cherry tree.  Wherever it grows you can be sure someone in the area made a gunstock out of it
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Offline Stophel

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Re: Cherry Stock Help
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2016, 04:10:38 AM »
I will recommend being VERY picky with cherry.  SOME cherry I would consider hard enough (barely) and suitable for gunstocks.  Much cherry, however, is feather light, and butter soft, unfortunately.
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Offline D. Taylor Sapergia

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Re: Cherry Stock Help
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2016, 01:00:25 AM »
One of my back burner projects is a JP Beck smooth rifle from a cherry stock blank I bought from John Getz - heavy, dark and hard - and inlet and precarved by Mark Weder.  Looking forward to it.
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Offline Daryl

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Re: Cherry Stock Help
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2016, 02:23:29 AM »
AFTER the .25!
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