Different types of beech?

[averageplinker]

No, but if you send me a £20 note I will willing translate for you.


Chippendale (with clothes on)

Terribly sorry old chap, we only use fifties down here

[Chippendale]

Terribly sorry old chap, we only use fifties down here

What's a fifty?

Chippendale (with clothes on)

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

What's a fifty?

Chippendale (with clothes on)

It's that funny munny the waynt tek in t shops rarnd here.

[Chippendale]

It's that funny munny the waynt tek in t shops rarnd here.

o r i remember em, mi father ad wun wonce wi thort it wur art on monopoly game at fust.

Chippendale wi clooas on

[robsmyth]

What's a fifty?

Chippendale (with clothes on)

Bulls eye pal.

[averageplinker]

What's a fifty?

Chippendale (with clothes on)

A respectable score in HFT!

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

I'm going to try to upload some links of the work I've done to the beech stock so far. It's been sanded right down to remove old stain and left the wood natural. Final sanding with 000 wire wool before 8 applications of Danish rubbed in with fingers and wire wooled between each coat. Original chequering removed by original sanding and replaced with stippling done with one of those little engraver thingies. The stippling was then dyed with Jacobean oak stain. It might yet get a few more coats, or maybe just waxed as it is. Adjustable butt pad to be fitted yet. Opinions please, especially from Tinbum who the stock came from and knows what it looked like before. First two are in natural light, 3rd is with flash.

http://imgur.com/DKszLVC

http://imgur.com/Y0zijsl

http://imgur.com/2eICEyh

[Rickenbacker]

Wow, Kenneth. Looks great - really light, like ash or summat.

Did you need to do the stipple panels dark? I think it would have looked even better if you hadn't.

Still a cracking job though.

[tinbum]

I knew I'd sold it to you too cheap!


Looking good, but have you shot the damn rifle yet?!

[averageplinker]

Would love to see some close up picks of the stippling.
Cheers

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

I knew I'd sold it to you too cheap!


Looking good, but have you shot the damn rifle yet?!

Only when I first got it and adjusting power after fitting new piston seal. I will get around to it! It shoots sweet as anything out of the stock. Very little recoil and no flip, so when it's completely stocked up, I'm expecting good things from it.

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Wow, Kenneth. Looks great - really light, like ash or summat.

Did you need to do the stipple panels dark? I think it would have looked even better if you hadn't.

Still a cracking job though.

Yeah, I once saw a stock in ripple ash and it looked great. I wanted some contrast with the panels, but maybe I went too dark. A nice rosewood would have been less in yer face.