any ideas on this bsa meteor in walnut??

[deanwar]

Hi does anyone know what mk this meteor is? i have not seen one in walnut before
thanks
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ctqrosn9x0...94756.jpg?dl=0

[evert]

Sure its Walnut?

[joffy]

Take a note of your serial number (on the barrel )and then check here www.airgunspares.com/store/content/87/BSA/

[johnbaz]

It looks like quarter sawn beech to me, I have an Original mod45 that I refinished, it's almost identical

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John

[silva]

I have a walnut stocked meteor, but have never seen another. I always thought they were perhaps short of a beech blank at the stocking shop at Sile and used a walnut one to complete an order. Certainly not a factory option. Mines an early one with the one piece cocking arm.

[kennp]

I'm an ex carpenter,
That looks like wide grain Beech to me, perhaps a re finished factory standard stock.
walnut looks a lot deeper garain & richer even if stained than the one in the pic usually anyway though some American walnut can be quite plain.
Just an opinion though & I could be well wrong of course!

[Garvin]

It doesn't look like walnut to me either.

[tmstech]

Beech.

[Chippendale]

It looks like quarter sawn beech to me, I have an Original mod45 that I refinished, it's almost identical

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John

Agree with you on this one John, looks definitely like Beech.

Chippendale (with clothes on)

[FattMann]

I have to agree with you guys, showded the pic to my good friend Colin whos a retired master carpenter /joiner, its beech has Jon said But wasnt there a special prize at the game fair one year, a Walnut stocked Meteor to celebrate something like the Millionth Meteor

[mel h]

I have a Mercury with a birds eye maple stock and have seen a photo on here of a Meteor with a maple stock, so variations do exist.
Mel.

[greenwayjames]

I have a Mercury with a birds eye maple stock and have seen a photo on here of a Meteor with a maple stock, so variations do exist.
Mel.

The stock on the Meteor shown is plain, not quarter, sawn beech. I had an Airsporter in a nice grade of maple showing birdseye. AlthoughSile used to supply BSA occasionally at that time BSA made their stocks in house using walnut, beech, birch and whatever else they could obtain. More recently some Meteors were made with stocks hydrographically? treated so that it took a very close look indeed to see that they were not made from a very high exhibition grade of walnut.

[18 Wheeler]

As others have said that one's Beech (IMO).

I've received a communication from a fellow collector, formerly of this parish, advising that Dennis Hiller used to offer Meteor stocks in various woods including Mahogany and pine (), priced at £42 without a recoil pad. He has some of these items so I'll see if it is possible to get some photos.

[Garvin]

As others have said that one's Beech (IMO).

I've received a communication from a fellow collector, formerly of this parish, advising that Dennis Hiller used to offer Meteor stocks in various woods including Mahogany and pine (), priced at £42 without a recoil pad. He has some of these items so I'll see if it is possible to get some photos.

Please give Chris my regards.

[18 Wheeler]

Please give Chris my regards.

Will do.