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Merkava Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Joined: Oct 14^th, 2021	Black Walnut blanks Dec 5^th, 2021 at 7:15pm	Print Post
	Sure would be nice to find a few long Black Walnut blanks. Anyone have any info. on where we could find some blanks? Have a few stock to make.

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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2107 Location: NW, Iowa Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #1 - Dec 5^th, 2021 at 11:19pm	Print Post
	Are you looking for one piece rifle blanks for modern gun or the really long stuff for longrifles? watts walnut for the modern stuff. If for longrifles there are suppliers but the ones I have talked to have been limited on availability the last few months.

	Robert Warren
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Joe Do... Oldtimer ASSRA Board Member ASSRA Journal Editor Offline Posts: 663 Location: 'burbs of Chicago Joined: May 19^th, 2012	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #2 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 7:39am	Print Post
	Here's a great source for European walnut ... (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) I have ordered from them once and service was great.


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Merkava Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Joined: Oct 14^th, 2021	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #3 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 8:02am	Print Post
	I'll check into it. Rem. RB for one, Zulu Martini Henry for the other.

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Merkava Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Joined: Oct 14^th, 2021	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #4 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 10:37am	Print Post
	Cecil sure is a charachter.. I'm not going to diverge from the Topic, but since Cecil is such a open expressive guy, here goes! "No man can ever win a fight with a woman, not now, not ever" !!!! Ok, CIC says she wants to go to Las Vegas, I hate Vegas, but since Cecil has his stock blank operation there, I now like Las Vegas. No more diverging.... Anyone have any tricks or tips on smuggling back stock blanks from Cecil?? Great info, might get to kill two birds with one stone.

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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #5 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 11:01am	Print Post
	CPA typically also has some real nice wood blanks and they can also roughly duplicate it for you.

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Merkava Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Joined: Oct 14^th, 2021	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #6 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 12:16pm	Print Post
	I'll ring CPA and check it out. Shopping for stock blanks so much fun. Ho Ho Ho

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Flatlander Oldtimer Offline Posts: 709 Location: Warm Arizona Joined: Apr 24^th, 2004	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #7 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 3:11pm	Print Post
	Years ago there was a company that sold green blanks for 1/2 price for customer to dry out before use. I bought six and wish I would have gotten more. Does anyone sell green.blanks anymore? Flatlander

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Merkava Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Joined: Oct 14^th, 2021	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #8 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 3:17pm	Print Post
	Place in Missouri, big gun stock company. In the Ozarks. They cut a lot of walnut, good place to check.

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 12352 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #9 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 4:10pm	Print Post
	Flatlander wrote on Dec 6^th, 2021 at 3:11pm: Years ago there was a company that sold green blanks for 1/2 price for customer to dry out before use. I bought six and wish I would have gotten more. Does anyone sell green.blanks anymore? Flatlander Your post reminds me of the time I refused to sell a green blank to a shooter friend. He kept after me and kept after me till I finally said okay. He promised to let it dry for two years. A month after he got the blank I get emails saying something's wrong with the blank. It's flawed, said I sold him a bad blank. It's all yellow inside he said. So once again I explained it to him and another time I explained that the blank was green and that he had to let it dry. So he stops bugging me about about it. Then a year later I see him at a match and he asks me when I'm going to replace the bad blank. I don't ever sell green wood to anyone now.
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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4473 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #10 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 5:14pm	Print Post
	Back in the 90s I bought a mannlicher length blank that had just (like a week) been cut. It weighed 28 pounds! I waxed the ends and set it in the corner of the basement. Every year around the anniversary of its purchase I dug it out and weighed it. On the 9th anniversary it had not changed from the prior weighing. It went to CPA and became a model 52 buttstock and 3 matching forends.


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John Rigby Full Member Offline Posts: 241 Location: Midwest Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #11 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 5:57pm	Print Post
	What did it weigh on the 9th anniversary?

	John Rigby
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John Rigby Full Member Offline Posts: 241 Location: Midwest Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #12 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 6:01pm	Print Post
	Robert Watts lives about 45 minutes away. I have bought from him and his collection is amazing and very affordable. Great guy to work with. I'll be headed up there shortly for a paneled Borchardt dbl-set action project. Don't know if I'm going to have Gail cut a long-range for bench or Zischang style.

	John Rigby
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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 12352 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #13 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 6:10pm	Print Post
	Merkava wrote on Dec 5^th, 2021 at 7:15pm: Sure would be nice to find a few long Black Walnut blanks. Anyone have any info. on where we could find some blanks? Have a few stock to make. How long?

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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2107 Location: NW, Iowa Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: Black Walnut blanks Reply #14 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 6:15pm	Print Post
	Just bought 6 blanks from Robert Watt, Watts Walnut. Pictures of them are shown in a post under gunsmithing if interested. You can also see lots of blanks on his web site.

	Robert Warren
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