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Offline WadePatton

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #25 on: January 24, 2013, 09:09:19 PM »
all very nice thanks.  if that gun was at Tip's Dec 31, then i may has fondled it.  As i recall there were two in the racks at that time.
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2013, 01:22:06 AM »
Roy's trick works with red oak, but neither white oak nor ash will do that. Ash is/was often substituted for oak. A LOT of "antique" furniture, Eastlake and the like, as sold by antique robber dealers as oak is in fact ash. I used to go through thousands of feet of ash when "oak" kithens were the rage. It works and stains better, IMO. I still like it.

I have a spectacular curly ash blank and a .40 x 46" Rice "A" weight waiting to get made into a nice plain rifle. No carving--not a good idea. :-\
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Offline pathfinder

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2013, 04:24:50 AM »
OK,where can I get a super duper extra on the duper piece of curly Ash?. Last piece I got really wasnt all too curly. I like the one waterfowl posted from Tip's shop.

The one that alex e posted is exactly what I DONT want! No offence is intended! Personal preferance. That one appears to be flat cut,where the others appear quarter sawn.
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #28 on: January 25, 2013, 06:56:01 AM »
Pathfinder,
No need to apologize.I have always like small,precise mechanisms
no matter what they are and the small locks I make reflect that.
Large military or even sporting locks are out of my "comfort zone"
so I stay with what I can do reasonably well.

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2013, 03:14:12 AM »
Tip sent this one to me right after friendship  in the white..2012



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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2013, 09:17:37 PM »
Here is one from Dixon's and another that I made 
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #31 on: January 29, 2013, 08:43:12 AM »
THAT'S what 'm looking for! I have a Colrain "A" weight .32 44",a Bob Roller Durs-Egg and some super duper custom trigger's,so I want a great piece of wood to do justice to the parts. Not that my gun building skills will!
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #32 on: January 30, 2013, 11:07:38 PM »
I sent my $$$ to Pat and Freddie, should see what i bought real soon.  I'm sure they have exhibition-grade for those who care to pay for it.  I couldn't bear the heartbreak of fouling a super duper piece up...yet.  ;)

I do much prefer the grain of that bottom rifle above.
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #33 on: January 30, 2013, 11:11:17 PM »
Quote from: pathfinder on January 29, 2013, 08:43:12 AM
THAT'S what 'm looking for! I have a Colrain "A" weight .32 44",a Bob Roller Durs-Egg and some super duper custom trigger's,so I want a great piece of wood to do justice to the parts. Not that my gun building skills will!
Bob is working on a lock and triggers for me now.  Mating with 44"/40/A and this here ASH that's nearly in the mail.  TN-style, plan to make the other bits.

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #34 on: February 01, 2013, 11:47:10 PM »
My ash came today.  holy lead sled, i had guessed that i might want to use my lightest bbl in it, and i'm sure of that now.  the blank is 11.25#  putting an A-wt 40x44 in it.


pics in a bit.  in words: end to end curl with enough variation in the grain at the butt, methinks, to come out super nice.  if i do my part.  ;)
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Offline Kermit

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #35 on: February 02, 2013, 12:50:08 AM »
Well, get busy, Wade--we need photos!  ;D
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #36 on: February 02, 2013, 02:13:58 AM »

Bob is working on a lock and triggers for me now.  Mating with 44"/40/A and this here ASH that's nearly in the mail.  TN-style, plan to make the other bits.


He does some fantastic work dosen't he? I'm still amazed at the difference between a "Stock" and a "hot Rod' Durr's Egg! Like I told bob,i wish I'd have been using them YEARS ago!
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #37 on: February 02, 2013, 03:26:56 AM »
The Roller Durs Egg is a bigger fire hazard than a smoldering patch:-)
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #38 on: February 02, 2013, 04:56:46 AM »
Quote from: heinz on February 02, 2013, 03:26:56 AM
The Roller Durs Egg is a bigger fire hazard than a smoldering patch:-)

 ;D ;D ;D ;D Amen!
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #39 on: February 02, 2013, 10:17:13 PM »
i'm buying on reputation alone.  don't think i've ever shared the same space with any of Bob's work. I'm getting his Ketland-which he tells me is on a PAA gun in Jan MuzzleBlasts, but i don't have any of those yet, just signed on. If someone would send me a pic that'd be great.

BACK to the Curly Ash of Tennessee.

pics of blank (from Pat and Freddie Harrison, TN)










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Offline Bob Roller

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #40 on: February 03, 2013, 06:48:48 PM »
Wade,
I was mistaken about the picture being in Muzzle Blasts,
it's in MUZZLELOADER for Jan/Feb 2013 +the Nov/Dec 2012 issue.

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Offline WadePatton

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #41 on: February 03, 2013, 10:17:40 PM »
Well i don't know anything about that one, hey somebuddy scan and send a pic to me.  email is listed at Profile.  Or anybody anywhere that has a pic of a Bob Roller Ketland, i'd love to see what i'm getting just for grins.   ;D

thanks and thank you Bob for the correction. 
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #42 on: November 27, 2013, 09:41:37 PM »
My client is a logger.  He just came across an ash log with nice even tight curl the length of
a fullstock.  We can get 4 blanks out of it.  What would be a fair amount to offer him for it
already quarter sawn into planks and kiln dried?  
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #43 on: November 27, 2013, 11:26:57 PM »
The last really nice curly ash I got, and it was CURLY!!!!, I paid $100.00 for the plank. Let me know if I can get one. Still looking for THAT PIECE!!!
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #44 on: November 28, 2013, 07:38:26 AM »
Quote from: Shreckmeister on November 27, 2013, 09:41:37 PM
My client is a logger.  He just came across an ash log with nice even tight curl the length of
a fullstock.  We can get 4 blanks out of it.  What would be a fair amount to offer him for it
already quarter sawn into planks and kiln dried?  
The price that makes both of you happy.  I paid 250 for the blank in the pics above.  Sawing and drying add considerable value.  Start low, you can always raise your offer.  Top grade Ash is worth 75cents per board foot, in the log (at the mill/buyer in this area).
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #45 on: November 28, 2013, 01:38:36 PM »
I think the question was asked what to fill the open grain of ash with. The one ash stocked rifle I built had the grain filled with the Constantine filler (black) from Chambers. It really brought the grain out. The stock had also been stained using ferric nitrate which did justice to the curl.
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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #46 on: November 28, 2013, 07:11:47 PM »
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Re: Curly Ash
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Offline KLMoors

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Re: Curly Ash
« Reply #48 on: November 29, 2013, 03:23:02 PM »
Well that's.........different.   ;D
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