Stock Wood?

[Oggy]

thinking about having a crack at making my own stock for my S400. what wood (other than beech or walnut) would be best to have a go on? bearing in mind i might royally bugger up a nice bit of wood

so ideally, i need to know whats cheap & suitable if it turns out ok

thank in advance

[allanb]

Make up some layers of good plywood

it will work out the cheapest.

allan

[Rapidnick]

Walnut is used because of its combination of beauty and lightness. Beech is used because it is cheap. You don't want to use wood that will wreck your cutting tools so as a first effort use beech. Maple is beautiful and I have seen a stunning stock made from cherrywood. Whatever you can lay your hands on really but not mahogany/iroko or any of the other African hardwoods because they are so tough to work.

[Oggy]

cheers guys, dont really want to use ply 'cause if by some miracle it turns out ok, i'll keep hold of it (good idea though!!)

so roughly how much am i looking at for a bit of beech?

[ikarma70]

there is maple,has a really nice grain and looks really nice when finished

[Firegeezer]

Do a search on flea-bay for "wood blanks" or "hard wood blanks"
It should bring up various bits for sale of different sizes and types and usualy quite cheap.
Good luck mate, would be interested to see end results
Regards

Rob

[Bryan7]

hey Oggy,
would love to see some pictures of how you do it and it all progresses,keep us updated if you can
and good luck
Bryan

[davy jones]

You can get absolutely stunning flame walnut blanks for well under £100 on ****.

[xbow]

As mentioned, Maple is nice but needs careful finishing. Should not be too expensive and it's quite nice to carve.

[Oggy]

You can get absolutely stunning flame walnut blanks for well under £100 on ****.

£100?!?!

rather not pay that much for something that could go horribly wrong....

[recipio]

I'd find a cheap wood that's easy to carve first. You will make all your mistakes on that ( and you will make mistakes ! ) and avoid all that hair pulling frustration of ruining a good piece of wood.
Maple is far too hard to practice on--try poplar or if your funds stretch to it a nice piece of lime.
If you can wait you will find nice blanks at the Woodworker show in the Ally Pally next month.

[Matt]

Oggy,

You may be sorted with a piece of wood, but if not I have spalted beech, american walnut and english walnut, think I bought a little too much recently .

What sort of dimensions are you after?


regards,

Matt

[Velocette]

These people are very helpfull too,,,,lots of wood of all sorts.

http://www.john-boddy-timber.ltd.uk

[jax13]

if your gonna do a beech stock use spalted.

search for it on here as IIRC someone made one for a superten and it looked fantastic!

[Chris321]

Here's the stock Jax13 is talking about:

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9...157291fll7.jpg
(made by bunnyblaster)