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Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on March 20, 2017, 03:56 PM:
Couple turned up.
Mark
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Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on March 22, 2017, 03:23 AM:
I like your style, Mark!
Spalted maple & walnut?
Does the 1st one have a home, yet?
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on March 22, 2017, 07:17 AM:
Thanks Fred, appreciate it!..top one is Birdseye maple and bottom one is Arizona mesquite...both calls are goners already.
Mark
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 24, 2017, 02:45 PM:
But, that was a good guess, Fred.
As far as I'm concerned, they could make all predator calls out of mesquite, it's appropriate. That's what they used to make the stocks out of for the Weatherby mark V.
But, you know, it's all trendy and fibreglass is in. Maybe fine shotguns is the last holdout for figured wood? I mean, just imagine a London Grade Double in 416 Rigby sporting a McMillian realtree camo job. Calls for Capital Punishment, donut? I'd spring the trapdoor.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on March 24, 2017, 03:24 PM:
Don't know if they still use it or not, but years ago Bear Archery had a process where they took a piece of really nice wood, put it in a vacuum chamber and then introduced resin into the wood.
They used it to make bow risers and it was my understanding that the stuff was damn near bullet-proof.
Seems like the same thing could be done for rifle / shotgun stocks ???
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 25, 2017, 07:10 AM:
I know something of that process. Originally developed for lightweight aluminum castings for use in transmissions for the US Navy. Involved injecting resin under high pressure which sealed all the microscopic pits always found in aluminum casting to make them waterproof and able to withstand pressure.
Later we used the same technology to weatherproof the insulator supports for the Alaskan pipeline to suspend it above the tundra. It solved the heat generation that melted the frozen ground and would cause ruptures in sagging pipeline.
Ancient technology.
Good hunting. El Bee
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on March 25, 2017, 02:45 PM:
Yes, lots of call makers use what is called resin stabilized wood. You do basicly what Koko said and you end up with a very strong, heavy product. You can send your own wood in to companies, or even do it at home now. The hot deal is to inject all kinds of colors into the resin/wood and you get some pretty cool stuff as a result.
Mark
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on March 25, 2017, 03:15 PM:
So...............Why isn't anybody making some really cool laminated stocks with this stuff ??
There's a couple of traditional bow makers putting out some laminated bow risers that are works of art in & of themselves.
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on March 25, 2017, 04:20 PM:
Just not the "thing" right now I guess? Not really sure. High end synthetics and chassis systems are the trend obviously.
Mark
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