SOLD/EXPIRED English Walnut Stock for 98 Mauser

[jgraham01]

SPF

Years ago, I picked up a beautiful blank of English Walnut from a gunshow in Southern California. I also bought a piece of ebony to use for the forend tip and grip cap. My intent was to build an English Sporting Rifle using a commercial Mauser 98 action. I had John Wills of Anchorage Alaska, now deceased, rough out the stock with a shadowline cheekpiece, but after he passed, I never finished the project. It has been sitting around for over 10 years and I do not intend to use it. The action is rough inletted at about 95%, the barrel channel rough inletted at about 80% and still lots of wood on the outside to make a heavy Dangerous Game Rifle or remove the wood and make a lightweight sporting stock. Lots of light and dark streaks through the wood, as you can see by the pictures, with nice flowing grain. The grain runs correctly through the wrist for strength. I have over $1000 invested, and that was over 10 years ago, but my loss is your gain. This will make a fantastic rifle stock and the buyer will be pleased.

Selling this shipped for $600 and I accept cash, MO and personal checks. No trades or PayPal. Contact me with any questions.

Jerry

 

[pmh-usa]

Jerry, I think you would be much better served if you would wet the stock with thinner or mineral spirits and take new pics in best light to better show the fantastic contrast and stripe figure. Selling wood these days is getting more difficult because many of our shooters under 40 or so have never really seen nicely done wood stocks of higher grade wood in English, Bastogne, Claro, even the good American walnut - as to English in all its regional variations, when done superbly looks like a piece of polished marble and most of our younger crowd haven't ever seen that. I bet when you do 'wet' pics of this, that marvelous figure will really pop.

A second observation for any of those thinking about this: any blank over ten years of age will work (carve, inlet, checker) so much better than 2-3 year old kiln-dried stuff.

Third, this is about as perfect a layout as you can find - the obvious critical points being in the are of the tang down through the pistol grip; so if you're worried about the heavy caliber safari rifle, this stock could handle it with no worries.

I'm 70, still have more than 20 blanks collecting dust, and do almost nothing but composite stocks these days . . . . but there are days when I find myself about to impulse-buy another piece of wood - this is definitely one of those days. Somebody buy this and save me from myself

 

[jgraham01]

And me out of thinner and mineral spirits!!!

Jerry

 

[muleystalker]

And me out of thinner and mineral spirits!!!

Jerry

You could also use alcohol.

 

[jpfrog]

Jerry, I think you would be much better served if you would wet the stock with thinner or mineral spirits and take new pics in best light to better show the fantastic contrast and stripe figure. Selling wood these days is getting more difficult because many of our shooters under 40 or so have never really seen nicely done wood stocks of higher grade wood in English, Bastogne, Claro, even the good American walnut - as to English in all its regional variations, when done superbly looks like a piece of polished marble and most of our younger crowd haven't ever seen that. I bet when you do 'wet' pics of this, that marvelous figure will really pop.

A second observation for any of those thinking about this: any blank over ten years of age will work (carve, inlet, checker) so much better than 2-3 year old kiln-dried stuff.

Third, this is about as perfect a layout as you can find - the obvious critical points being in the are of the tang down through the pistol grip; so if you're worried about the heavy caliber safari rifle, this stock could handle it with no worries.

I'm 70, still have more than 20 blanks collecting dust, and do almost nothing but composite stocks these days . . . . but there are days when I find myself about to impulse-buy another piece of wood - this is definitely one of those days. Somebody buy this and save me from myself

It sold looks like, but I'd like to know what that dusty collection you have going looks like and if you're interested in parting with a couple