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Stock lamination question
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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 1101602" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>Laminate might help you keep the "overhead low", but my frustration level is always high when lami is mentioned. "Store bought" laminated blanks or pre-inlets must be of the trashiest wood available. For hand carving/inletting/shaping, a blank of properly seasoned walnut is the ticket. A straight grained blank of [even] Black Walnut will allow a 'lower' frustration level when working by hand. I've made many rifle stocks and a few shotgun stocks over the years. I'm done with laminates, I've worked the last one! As for making my own laminated blank,,, I can't think of a good reason to cut up a good piece of Walnut or Maple (or post oak!) just to glue it back together.... A solid Black Walnut blank will be available for a very reasonable cost if you look around. I watched as other students bought low cost, low figured blanks for their stockmaking, while I was in gunsmithing school so many years ago. They made 'plain Jane' stocks, because they were afraid they'd make a 'mistake'. (with the hours involved I want anything but "plain Jane").'Mistakes" will be made! Hopefully, they won't be insurmountable mistakes. If you're an "experienced" wood worker, chances are you'll avoid them (the mistakes that can't be fixed). And, if you're an experienced wood worker, you already know that wood that has some semblance of being 'consistant' is much easier to work with than material that is not..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 1101602, member: 24284"] Laminate might help you keep the "overhead low", but my frustration level is always high when lami is mentioned. "Store bought" laminated blanks or pre-inlets must be of the trashiest wood available. For hand carving/inletting/shaping, a blank of properly seasoned walnut is the ticket. A straight grained blank of [even] Black Walnut will allow a 'lower' frustration level when working by hand. I've made many rifle stocks and a few shotgun stocks over the years. I'm done with laminates, I've worked the last one! As for making my own laminated blank,,, I can't think of a good reason to cut up a good piece of Walnut or Maple (or post oak!) just to glue it back together.... A solid Black Walnut blank will be available for a very reasonable cost if you look around. I watched as other students bought low cost, low figured blanks for their stockmaking, while I was in gunsmithing school so many years ago. They made 'plain Jane' stocks, because they were afraid they'd make a 'mistake'. (with the hours involved I want anything but "plain Jane").'Mistakes" will be made! Hopefully, they won't be insurmountable mistakes. If you're an "experienced" wood worker, chances are you'll avoid them (the mistakes that can't be fixed). And, if you're an experienced wood worker, you already know that wood that has some semblance of being 'consistant' is much easier to work with than material that is not.. [/QUOTE]
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