Madrone Burl 17 HMR

[Joel Russo]

Carved this one out of Madrone Burl for a good customer on CO. He took a new Browning Mini A-Bolt, had it re-barreled, then sent it to me for the stock build. Ended up laminating two bookmatched killer pieces of Madron Burl. It took a while to settle on the Madrone, but me thinks he made a good decision..
Hit it with some medium brown homemade stain to pull out the burl. Then finished with some tung oil, and rubbed it out to a nice satin finish.

Someday I'll buy a good camera....

 

[royinidaho]

Wow, in the current world of plastic stuff it is sure nice to see craftsmanship like that.

Kudos to U, big time.

Roy

 

[Wysongdog]

That is absolutely beautiful!! Love it.

 

[Barrelnut]

It's art in the form of a rifle stock.

 

[HARPERC]

My son bought me a good camera-didn't help, I still can't operate it. Picture looks great to me, some one is getting a great looking rifle!

 

[Joel Russo]

Thanks gents, appreciate the compliments..

 

[mtnwrunner]

You really are a true artist. Unbelievable work.

Randy

 

[Canadian Bushman]

Good lord you have a knack for woodwork Joel!

 

[mountainman56]

That's incredible..............again. Functional art work.

 

[vegas steve]

speechless,all i can say is wow

 

[Jim in Cali]

Very very nice! thanks for sharing these photos of your work.

 

[Joel Russo]

Thanks again guys. Tried to talk him into checkering or stippling, but he wanted the plain look.

 

[woodnut]

Checkering? It don't need no stinkin checkering! LOL. Wow! That is truly a work of art. I have looked hard at it to see if I can find your lamination line; cannot do it! I agree with the owner, it's so beautiful now why mess with stippling or checkering?
Kudos to you, sir, on everything, and your choice of a satin oil finish is perfection!

 

[Joel Russo]

Thank you sir.
I'm just about to split open a beautiful piece of Turkish walnut and glue up a piece of Gabon Ebony in the middle of it for the same customer. Building a 6x47 varmint rifle for those pesky coyotes.
I'll post up some pics shortly.