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Voted out by the walnut crowd.
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Quilted or shellflame maple. Maple was Hal Hartley's favorite and he 'suigied' (surface charring with a flame) almost every one he did.
Regards, Joe
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See above.
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That's a good looking checkering cradle - did you make that or buy it?
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See Above.
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Western maple, big leaf male; soft as a baby's bottom...
Red maple, sugar maple; hard as the hubs of hell...
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Western maple, big leaf male; soft as a baby's bottom...
Red maple, sugar maple; hard as the hubs of hell... Haha - yep. I'm working my first stock in a nice piece of English walnut now and it cuts like buttah compared to the red and sugar I'm used to.
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See above.
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I think I remember that nitric acid turns maple the brown color that one likes.
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Maple grown in the Pacific Northwest is, as SDH says, much softer than the maple from the Eastern US. It will make good gunstocks if you follow this rule.....No heavy calibers without stock reinforcment. The maple grown in the PNW holds sanding marks very well and will show up under stain and finshing procedures. It also has a less dense poor structure than it's cousins in the east...which causes recoil to set back the wood fibers faster then a harder species. That being said....I like working with maple in making gunstocks. It challenges my skills as a stockmaker to make it flawless in appearance. I'm the odd man out on this though.
Dennis Earl Smith/Benefactor Life NRA, ACGG Professional member
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