Different types of beech?

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Are there different types of beech? I did a Mercury beech stock up recently. I took it right down until all the stain was gone and applied some pine stain as I wanted to keep it light. Finished it with Danish oil and ended up with a nice golden colour, much as I would have expected. This week I've been doing a TX beech stock. Same treatment, but didn't use any stain at all, expecting a very light finish. First coat of oil this afternoon and it looks like it's going to come up mid brown! A lot darker than the mercury which had some stain applied. How does that work then?

[Rickenbacker]

Everything, including beech, was better in the old days?

Perhaps the factory coloured lacquer has penetrated deeper on the TX stock?

I remember trying to refinish a MK2 TX stock myself, and it turned out patchy & horrid. The original finish was unbelievably thick, to the point of hiding a big repair on the cheek piece - while old Webley and BSA stocks often seem to scrub up nicely.

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Possibly, but I've taken the tx stock down until it is as pale as a young maidens butt cheeks. No sign of any stain left. It does have quite a figured grain for beech too.

[les allam]

Hi Kenneth
Is there more of a grain pattern in the TX stock compared to the Mercury 's stock?.
We store various hard wood timber at my work place and have bleached beech , it's very light in appearance and maybe one of your stocks as been bleached prior to being machined for stock making.
Les..

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Yes , the tx stock has noticeably more grain evident than the Mercury stock. More than usually seen in a piece of beech.

[Rickenbacker]

Possibly, but I've taken the tx stock down until it is as pale as a young maidens butt cheeks. No sign of any stain left. It does have quite a figured grain for beech too.

Has tha' managed to get all the colour out of the end grain, Kenneth?

[averageplinker]

Maybe it is not beech? Stick up a picture so that we can all have look

[Chippendale]

Has tha' managed to get all the colour out of the end grain, Kenneth?

That should be 'as tha gorall culler arton end grain' to say it properly PHil.


Chees

Mel

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Ar, av gorr all t' kuller art ert end grain (near as dammit). It's definitely beech, the ony med em arter worlnut en beech en it int worlnut. Al see if a can get some pics up wennav dunnit. Not be forra bit yit tho'.

[Chippendale]

Ar, av gorr all t' kuller art ert end grain (near as dammit). It's definitely beech, the ony med em arter worlnut en beech en it int worlnut. Al see if a can get some pics up wennav dunnit. Not be forra bit yit tho'.

Luk forard to seein em.

Chippendale (with clothes on)

[robs5230]

I've recently refinished a TX beech stock (about January). It was very heavily figured and more figured than some walnut stocks I've had.
Maybe its where the beech comes from that affects the grain, the age its harvested, or even just modern technology meaning they can use different parts of the wood. Use of timber and machining processes have certainly changed over the years.
I do remember beech stocks of the past having barely any figuring and a very tight grain.
Then again, Weihrauch beech stocks, even new ones seem to have little figuring at all. Possibly just in the sourcing of the timber.

[Rickenbacker]

as tha gorall culler arton end grain

Ar, av gorrit all art

I asked for that, didn't I?

[Chippendale]

I asked for that, didn't I?

Yep

See ya sooin mate


Mel

Chippendale (with clothes on)

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Duz tha meean
"Reyt Char, alsithi".

[Blackrider]

"Na den dee, wot dah onn abaht wi ohl dis ere abaht Beechwud en ohl ?

Ohl wuds wud innit ?