Different types of beech?

[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]

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.

[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]

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

Just setting about supper. I'll try to get some on later tonight.

[averageplinker]

Cheers. The grain your stock looks fab.

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Here you go.

http://imgur.com/dNWX6Qz

http://imgur.com/PiePFRu

[Blackrider]

A nice tone and finish there, much better than trying to stain a beech stock !
I achieved something similar with a pale walnut stock belonging to a Fwb 300S although that took 15 coats of Tru Oil each one rubbed down with fine steel wool.

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

Yeah, I've got a Falcon fn19 walnut thumbhole stock which came out very light. That one, I just sanded down and waxed! It looks as good as if it has been oiled.