Allentown stock choices

[MeliusCreekTrapper]

I have all the parts I need for my new Allentown/Lehigh style build, except for the stock. Every original I have been able to find seems to be maple. Were any other woods used by the Allentown gunsmiths? While I love curly maple, I am beginning to appreciate walnut stocked longrifles also.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

I cannot recall seeing an original Lehigh/Allentown rifle in anything other than maple.

[Eric Kettenburg]

I've seen plain guns in both walnut and cherry, but every one that I've ever seen that was carved was in maple.  And probably 95% or them or more are in maple, either plain or carved.

[rich pierce]

Wm Antes swivel barrel rifle was stocked in walnut and has Allentown-ish lines. It’s gun 54 in Rifles of Colonial America. Check it out.

[MeliusCreekTrapper]

Maple it is then. That is what I suspected. I'm okay with it. As much as I would fancy a walnut rifle, I'll wait to have one made in a style that would better fit. Now to decide what grade maple. Decisions, decisions.