Thats going to be a tough one. I use alot of exotic wood in my business. I sold off some Coco-Bolo since I am now highly allergic to it.It goes for $125.00 a Board Foot on the market. That panel was 2 1/4" thick x13x30+ inches, very rare ..it was 25 years old.  Ziricote i have a pallet ,also rare  in 1" thick planks.I've made a couple Bench Rest stocks out of it , very heavy dark brown with cloud like patterns. My Hawaiian  stock is another one of a kind.As is my Italian Laminates made 0ver 20 years ago,I bought out there stockpile,so I have the last if that wood in the world.Food for thought. Rose wood/Coco-Bolo weighs maybe two+ the weight of walnut. That would be one heavy stock!
Gorgeous gun !

Figured it would be heavy.  The rifle, even though it doesn’t look it, is very heavy.  It has a #5 barrel on it.  Singer made the rifle, and while there are not many of his rifles known today, he apparently like using Rosewood on his rifles.  This one and it’s sister are believed to be rosewood.

FYI, the up coming book on Jersey City Popes from Tom Rowe will contain a section on Singer.  This picture, and my information, is from that section of the book.
Bob

Terry,
Is this Joe’s pistol?  I think he posted this on this forum and I saved it.
Bob

Tom’s information says it’s 16 pounds, 6 ounces.  That’s with a 32 inch barrel.  But, that configuration date is 2007.  If your rifle weighs that much with a 24 inch barrel it makes me think that number may be incorrect.

I also have heavy Schoyen/Peterson rifle with a 30 inch 22LR barrel that guess I need to weigh.
Bob

terry buffum wrote on Nov 29^th, 2025 at 2:13pm:


Okay, thanks Terry.  I answered your PM with the info you requested.

I really can't think of a tropical hardwood that would be harder to find, legally. The most prized of all rosewood species was the Brazilian but it has been banned from all forms of international trade, much like ivory. It's been listed by CITES for decades so whatever is out there is closely held by guitar and other musical instrument makers who have had stashes long before the ban. There are according to my sources about ten different species that are loosely termed rosewood but that's mostly marketing. 

East Indian Rosewood can be had and if you could actually hands on inspect for color and grain some of it is similar to the Brazilian.  Madagascar Rosewood is scarce but I've seen small turning blanks that looked close to Brazilian. The other two candidates are Amazon and Honduras Rosewoods but again very difficult to source and then you'd be hard pressed to find pieces large enough for a stock. Most pseudo rosewoods are most likely only found in small dimensions suited to turning, furniture inlays or musical instruments. One distinctive feature of real Brazilian is that is smells like roses when worked. 

Good luck
Rick 




 

Not intentionally trying to derail your post Bob but just for reference Gibson Guitar was shut down by the Feds for a Lacy Act violation ( dealing in banned woods ). It took years to get the mess cleared up and back in business. But they still got fined for $2-300K. Anyway they had old inventory of Rosewood and Ebony that was purchased long before the ban took effect but apparently some was more recent 

Rick