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RBKenn Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 259 Location: fallon Joined: Apr 8^th, 2011	A new RB stock set Oct 13^th, 2022 at 5:40pm	Print Post
	Over the years I have been fascinated by the few walnut stock blanks that featured the graft line between Black and English Walnuts. Not considered by most, I acquired a few. George Peterson at Treebone just carved a few of those for me. Here is one I will be using for a new Rolling Block rifle. Nice dark straight English/French wrist with colorful Claro/Black butt. Managed to get an early forend from the same blank.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16111 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #1 - Oct 13^th, 2022 at 6:19pm	Print Post
	Never even knew such wood existed, or was used for stocks? That's a nice looking set. I really love dark stock wood.

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RBKenn Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 259 Location: fallon Joined: Apr 8^th, 2011	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #2 - Oct 13^th, 2022 at 8:28pm	Print Post
	Here are a couple more. Most of the smaller gunstock mills avoided this type of cut because there was only a small demand. Corporate buyers were not interested It is a specialty item.


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Amoretti Full Member Offline Posts: 209 Location: thermopolis, Wy Joined: Nov 2^nd, 2009	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #3 - Oct 13^th, 2022 at 8:39pm	Print Post
	I grew up in an orchard in CA. The walnuts were planted as black walnuts for a strong root system and later grafted to english walnuts for the more desirable nuts Don't know if they still do this. Pears the same thing mountain bartletts were grafted to japanese root stock.


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RBKenn Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 259 Location: fallon Joined: Apr 8^th, 2011	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #4 - Oct 14^th, 2022 at 1:33am	Print Post
	This stuff was cut and milled in the 1980s when the grafts were about 3 to 4 feet off the ground. Now the standard graft is just inches from the ground which leaves little room for an ample length of strong claro or black.


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Cbashooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1572 Location: Eastern Wa. Joined: Mar 31^st, 2018	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #5 - Oct 14^th, 2022 at 10:47am	Print Post
	Amoretti wrote on Oct 13^th, 2022 at 8:39pm: I grew up in an orchard in CA. The walnuts were planted as black walnuts for a strong root system and later grafted to english walnuts for the more desirable nuts Don't know if they still do this. Pears the same thing mountain bartletts were grafted to japanese root stock. yup ,I remember that from way back. thanks for jogging my memory.


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S99VG Oldtimer Offline Posts: 505 Location: CA Joined: Feb 1^st, 2020	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #6 - Oct 16^th, 2022 at 11:49am	Print Post
	Amoretti wrote on Oct 13^th, 2022 at 8:39pm: I grew up in an orchard in CA. The walnuts were planted as black walnuts for a strong root system and later grafted to english walnuts for the more desirable nuts Don't know if they still do this. Pears the same thing mountain bartletts were grafted to japanese root stock. I grew up in the almond and walnut orchards of Chico, CA and I know what you are talking about. Unfortuately, all those trees have pretty much been replaced by housing tracks in my old stomping grounds on the north side of town.


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bluesman Full Member Offline Posts: 192 Location: Paradise, California Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #7 - Oct 16^th, 2022 at 3:02pm	Print Post
	S99VG wrote on Oct 16^th, 2022 at 11:49am: Amoretti wrote on Oct 13^th, 2022 at 8:39pm: I grew up in an orchard in CA. The walnuts were planted as black walnuts for a strong root system and later grafted to english walnuts for the more desirable nuts Don't know if they still do this. Pears the same thing mountain bartletts were grafted to japanese root stock. I grew up in the almond and walnut orchards of Chico, CA and I know what you are talking about. Unfortuately, all those trees have pretty much been replaced by housing tracks in my old stomping grounds on the north side of town. I just bought a house on the north side of Chico out near Nord ave; We were going to rebuild up here in Paradise but the costs are still going up....It's too much. I've found quite a bit of great walnut around here.


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Packet Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Location: Port Orange, FL Joined: Jul 18^th, 2019	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #8 - Oct 16^th, 2022 at 5:21pm	Print Post
	Those stocks are gonna look great on any roller.


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S99VG Oldtimer Offline Posts: 505 Location: CA Joined: Feb 1^st, 2020	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #9 - Oct 17^th, 2022 at 10:41pm	Print Post
	bluesman wrote on Oct 16^th, 2022 at 3:02pm: S99VG wrote on Oct 16^th, 2022 at 11:49am: Amoretti wrote on Oct 13^th, 2022 at 8:39pm: I grew up in an orchard in CA. The walnuts were planted as black walnuts for a strong root system and later grafted to english walnuts for the more desirable nuts Don't know if they still do this. Pears the same thing mountain bartletts were grafted to japanese root stock. I grew up in the almond and walnut orchards of Chico, CA and I know what you are talking about. Unfortuately, all those trees have pretty much been replaced by housing tracks in my old stomping grounds on the north side of town. I just bought a house on the north side of Chico out near Nord ave; We were going to rebuild up here in Paradise but the costs are still going up....It's too much. I've found quite a bit of great walnut around here. Nord Ave, I know it well. My folks built their hose on Sequoyah (not Sequoia after the tree but Sequoyah after the Cherokee) Ave in 1958 and when I was a kid it was all almond and walnut orchards. Its all houses now with one remnant of an almond orchard on the corner of Holly and West 11th. We used to get missletoe out of the huge black walnut trees that were on that street. My grandparents lived right next to the Grange Hall on Alamo. The house is still there. Sorry about Paradise, I pretty much grew up in that town too and I hardly have the heart to go look at it now. Best of luck in your new place! PS - Chico used to be one of the largest prducers of almonds in the world. If you are from Chico its pronounced "Ahmond" with an emphasis on the A and not "allmond" with the emphasis on the "all." As we used to say - they are "allmonds" on the tree and "Ahmonds" on the ground and they got that way by shaking the L out of them!
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RBKenn Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 259 Location: fallon Joined: Apr 8^th, 2011	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #10 - Oct 18^th, 2022 at 6:02am	Print Post
	Brings back a lot of memories. Folks purchased their homestead in 1953. You can spot a north Sac valley long time resident by the pronunciation Ahmond. No one else in the world speaks that way. Started college at Chico State with Fred Huntington's son. They owned the gun store in Oroville and were in the earlier stages of their world famous reloading die business.


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Grumpy gumpy Full Member Offline Posts: 214 Location: australia Joined: Jul 6^th, 2016	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #11 - Oct 20^th, 2022 at 2:59am	Print Post
	Most Australians pronounce it ahmond Gumpy


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S99VG Oldtimer Offline Posts: 505 Location: CA Joined: Feb 1^st, 2020	Re: A new RB stock set Reply #12 - Oct 20^th, 2022 at 10:47am	Print Post
	Grumpy gumpy wrote on Oct 20^th, 2022 at 2:59am: Most Australians pronounce it ahmond Gumpy Nice to know. Looks like I might have a second home in Australia!


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