Hickory Stock wood

[DanL]

Hi All.  I have been away for a few years raising my grandson. About 8 years ago I sawed up a very nice Hickory. It has been stickered and air dried under a shed for the 8 years. There are some pieces 3" thick and 10"-12" wide by 9' long. For many years I kept it sprayed for insect control. It has been neglected for the last couple of years. I uncovered the stack and looked at it today. From the outside of the stack, It looks pretty good.

I need the space where the wood is stored. I will keep a coupe of pieces for myself for a future build. I will be getting rid of the rest of the wood. I will be glad to have any interested individuals communicate with me via my e-mail on my profile. I will get some pics as I take down the stack in the near future.

The wood is clear straight grained from an 85 year old hickory tree. I have not figured a price but I will be very reasonable.  I have not cut it into any rough stock profile but I can rough it out if someone would like.

If anyone is interested, please contact me via my profile e-mail. I will send pics as I get them. We can negotiate a price when you see the pics.

Thanks and I will be lurking more and maybe even comment more than I have been.
Sincerely,
DanL

P.S. Bookie has first pick if he is interested  

[frogwalking]

I wasn't going to answer, Dan, as there are others infinitely more knowledgeable than I about hickory stocks.  I do know, however that hickory is much harder than oak, and  heavier, I think.  I found some boards a number of years ago and, thinking they were oak, planed them on my brother-in-law's planer.  The dry hickory was so hard it almost ruined the planer blades.  One of the boards, I made into a wall hanging, and I quickly found out how hard  hickory is.  If you ever get a stock made out of a good hickory blank, no one will ever break it.

[rich pierce]

Lets talk!

[DanL]

Hi frogwalking,

Yes, dry hickory is hard. As I understand things, there are some original long rifles with hickory stocks. A search here should yield some discussion about hickory wood used for stock material. To properly build, the wood has to be stable thus properly dried either by kiln or air dried over many years. This of course makes for hard hickory.

Here in my area of Alabama, we do not have the quality maple or other stock woods available in our forests. However, we do have reasonable quality hickory. So like the builders of old, I will use what I have when I have opportunity to build again. Besides, this tree was on my property😉. Since I have a little more than I can use, I thought some good folks here might have an interest in the hickory.

Hi Rich.
You have a note from me.

Thanks, DanL

[GANGGREEN]

I hope that folks will post their thoughts if and when they purchase this wood from you and especially when and if they build some rifles from it.  I have access to decent hard and soft maple and probably some ash right here on my property but I've always liked hickory and always wondered if it would work for stocks. 

[rich pierce]

Hickory is tough, strong, heavy, hard to work, can be stringy, resists splitting, has worse dimensional stability  with mixture changes than traditional stock woods and is plain.    I will be doing a 2nd attempt in stocking a rifle in hickory.  On the first attempt I messed up the layout and was never pleased with the lock location.  Cutting the barrel channel by hand and drilling the ramrod hole were laborious tasks.  I could use a good workout.

[Acer Saccharum]

That's just the ticket, Rich!

[P.W.Berkuta]

When I select my stock wood I look for grain direction, density & figure. Hickory would not be in my selection of stock woods unless I'm building a howitzer which is HIGHLY unlikely . I used hickory for small ordainmental boxes and the finished boxs were VERY HEAVY. I can't imagine what a full size rifle would be like . Not my choice for a gun stock.

[JTR]

Clean, straight grained wood from an 85 year old tree,,,, Sounds like a great bunch of ramrods to me!
John

[DanL]

There is some interest in the hickory. What is the best and/or easiest way to ship slabs of wood? Please advise.

Thanks, DanL

[PPatch]

Generally they are simply addressed and shipped as is. Some put stickers on for addressing, others use a marker directly on the wood. I have received several shipped this way and so far no problems.

dave

[rich pierce]

Just round the corners a bit to prevent somebody getting a ton of splinters.

[DanL]

Hickory is gone.

Thanks for all the interest in the hickory planks that I had. A couple of deals are in the works but all are now spoken for.

Thanks again,
DanL