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Thoughts on Cherry?
Panzerschwein:
What does everyone think of using cherry for rifle wood? I personally love it. It’s got a subtle grain structure and I really love the gorgeous auburn hues it naturally develops over sunlight exposure and time.
It personally pains me to see folks building rifles and slathering a dark or otherwise obscuring finish over the cherry. In my humble opinion, they just eliminated much of the charm of that species of lumber.
Are you a fan of cherry and do you like to let it age naturally, or finish it in some other method? God bless.
-Panzer
t.caster:
I agree with you, it is beautiful wood and doesn't need to be darkened to much.
Mike Brooks:
It can be incredibly soft from a gunstocker's point of view.
rich pierce:
I’ve got a New England rifle with an unusual cherry stock. It has some dark stripes. No, it’s not ash.
Frozen Run:
I have an instructor who does not like working with cherry, he says the grain pattern can be too unpredictable among other things. I'll give it a go once I find a blank that is both suitably dense and reasonably cheap.
Rich, that rifle it wildly cool! Did you make it yourself or is it an original? It's hard to tell with you talented builders.
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