WOOD!

[deepwater]

 

got some good hardwood while I was in the amazon. enough to build a couple 4 rifle stocks and some scrap fro pistol grips. want to cut the big pieces down to a decent 'blank' size to try and transport back to the states (one piece at a time). any suggestions on width, length? thinking lever gun first. of course the scraps I can finger out myself   .

thanks guys.

oh yeah, I'll bring some scrap cut down to 'grip' size blanks if anyone is interested. (if they aren't taken away by customs that is)



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[david86440]

I have a walnut blank I was going to measure for you, but 
if you go to this site it will give you an idea of the dimensions of various stock blanks.


http://www.oldtreegunblanks.com/rifleblanks.php

[deepwater]

I have a walnut blank I was going to measure for you, but  
if you go to this site it will give you an idea of the dimensions of various stock blanks.


http://www.oldtreegunblanks.com/rifleblanks.php

thanks, I guess 2" should be good. I'll keep what I shave off for grips. this stuff is pretty heavy, hopefully not too heavy to put on the ass end of a lever gun  

damn, they're proud of those blanks 500.00 dollars! I bought all this for about .70 cents 
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[david86440]

Ok, I took some measurements..... it's 2.5" thick and 20" long.

For a lever gun it needs to be at least 16" long X 7" big end X 5" small end.

Hope this helps.

[deepwater]

yeah, it helps,
she's 4.5" by 3.5" and 23" long. still think I can do a 'small' big end by playing with the angles etc.. only one way to find out I guess..  thanks.
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[LoveMyXds]

thanks, I guess 2" should be good. I'll keep what I shave off for grips. this stuff is pretty heavy, hopefully not too heavy to put on the ass end of a lever gun  

damn, they're proud of those blanks 500.00 dollars! I bought all this for about .70 cents 
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Some are 2600 bucks! Guitar blanks are retarded money too for the nice stuff. Did you see the screwbean mesquite blanks (drool)

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Some are 2600 bucks! Guitar blanks are retarded money too for the nice stuff. Did you see the screwbean mesquite blanks (drool)

my only concern is finding trouble with customs. hopefully not. as I said, I bought this wood close to the source and paid less than .70 cents US. good wood too. the stuff that I wanted I can't (shouldn't) get because it is now outlawed. (endangered). but this stuff is nice and red. beautiful

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[Timothy]

Rosewood?

Purty!

[philw]

my only concern is finding trouble with customs.

lol  lucky you are not going to Australia



what they do here is  make sure your declare it  and Customs can organise to have it treated  once that as happened  then it can go in to the contrary   

having never flown OS   I don't know how it would go to the USA



looks like some very cool timber   

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going to get one cut in the morn. see how well it sits on the bottom of my bag and hope they don't get too concerned about it. just bought some fiberglass luggage and it sits perfect in the bottom. we'll see. if you guys don't hear from me after the 18th please send bail money. thanks.
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