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In need of a figured piece English Walnut
Dec 17th, 2025 at 8:18pm
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I’m looking for something with good figure on both sides and dark mineral streaks.  We’ve been digging through web sites, and talking with folk in the business, but have not found anything that will work for various reasons.  So thought we would ask here and see what might be stashed away and now available.

Tom Rowe talked me into restocking this rifle.  Cheesy
Another one with a story! 

The minimums we need are;  2 3/8 thick, 15 long, 7 1/2 wide.

The first picture is the way it looks today.  The wood was lost for this rifle and this what was installed in place of it.

The second is what it is to become.  
Pictures of the rifle from a long time ago show it had this Schoyen style on it.
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Reply #1 - Dec 17th, 2025 at 8:35pm
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Also in need of a buttplate.   
I need to look at my measurements again but it’s around 4 5/8 tall.  I will add the measurement tomorrow when I get back in the shop.
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Reply #2 - Dec 17th, 2025 at 10:00pm
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That's a lot of drop. I wonder how they did that. If you extend the stock bolt line, it comes out on top of the stock. Just curious.
  
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Reply #3 - Dec 17th, 2025 at 10:23pm
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Oddly enough, Bob,  I just ran into very close to that exact plate when I was rummaging around for an action a few minutes ago.  The bottom prong would have to be reconfigured/bent a bit.  The width is only 1 1/2" wide.

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Reply #4 - Dec 17th, 2025 at 11:45pm
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Dave,  
Looks that’s it.  The original is 4.610 x 1.400.

We will take it if you’ll let it go.
Bob

Got another similar, but with a longer lower tang?  Need that for the Singer rifle I’ll be starting.
  

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Reply #5 - Dec 17th, 2025 at 11:51pm
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I'll send it to you Bob, and I'll look and see if I have another with longer bottom prong.
  
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Reply #6 - Dec 18th, 2025 at 12:00am
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ssdave wrote on Dec 17th, 2025 at 11:51pm:
I'll send it to you Bob, and I'll look and see if I have another with longer bottom prong.


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Reply #7 - Dec 18th, 2025 at 7:50am
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Have you looked at Watts Walnut, in the shotgun portion of their site there are some highly figured pieces of walnut.
  
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Reply #8 - Dec 18th, 2025 at 10:29am
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debass wrote on Dec 17th, 2025 at 10:00pm:
That's a lot of drop. I wonder how they did that. If you extend the stock bolt line, it comes out on top of the stock. Just curious.


What I've seen on custom stocked Ballard rifles with a lot of drop is the stock tang was bent down at an angle to point at the enter of the buttplate. So it usually only required a longer stock through bolt to work.
  

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Reply #9 - Dec 18th, 2025 at 11:29am
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Gerald wrote on Dec 18th, 2025 at 7:50am:
Have you looked at Watts Walnut, in the shotgun portion of their site there are some highly figured pieces of walnut.


Yes, but thanks for the suggestion.
  

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marlinguy wrote on Dec 18th, 2025 at 10:29am:
debass wrote on Dec 17th, 2025 at 10:00pm:
That's a lot of drop. I wonder how they did that. If you extend the stock bolt line, it comes out on top of the stock. Just curious.


What I've seen on custom stocked Ballard rifles with a lot of drop is the stock tang was bent down at an angle to point at the enter of the buttplate. So it usually only required a longer stock through bolt to work.


I had thought some about this but to be honest, not much. And hadn’t payed any attention to what the picture showed.  I was just figuring that since it had a deep drop stock, everything would still work.   

I will need to look at it, but, I’m hoping the picture is distorting the actual bolt line.

Vall, so they bent down the tang that is screwed into the frame?  That would make it interesting to inlet!
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Reply #11 - Dec 18th, 2025 at 11:44am
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bobw wrote on Dec 18th, 2025 at 11:39am:
marlinguy wrote on Dec 18th, 2025 at 10:29am:
debass wrote on Dec 17th, 2025 at 10:00pm:
That's a lot of drop. I wonder how they did that. If you extend the stock bolt line, it comes out on top of the stock. Just curious.


What I've seen on custom stocked Ballard rifles with a lot of drop is the stock tang was bent down at an angle to point at the enter of the buttplate. So it usually only required a longer stock through bolt to work.


I had thought some about this but to be honest, not much. And hadn’t payed any attention to what the picture showed.  I was just figuring that since it had a deep drop stock, everything would still work.  

I will need to look at it, but, I’m hoping the picture is distorting the actual bolt line.

Vall, so they bent down the tang that is screwed into the frame?  That would make it interesting to inlet!
Bob



This is my Schoyen/Peterson and it looks like the stock bolt would work fine straight.  So this stock may need to look like this one.  But that would be up to Tom.
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Re: In need of a figured piece English Walnut
Reply #12 - Dec 18th, 2025 at 12:27pm
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Yes Bob, your stock has less drop and no need to do anything to the tang. But the picture of Tom's with the old stock shows the bolt would come out above the buttplate if it wasn't bent.
I like yours a lot better just because it's one that will fit more shooters than the exaggerated drop would.
  

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Reply #13 - Dec 18th, 2025 at 12:42pm
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The stock bolt problem would be easy to solve, just mill the tail of the tang off at an angle, weld on a tapped sleeve, and the front end is solved.  The tricky part will be to get the hole drilled at the right angle, It would probably need done before you carved the stock, because it will be easier to set up the angles for the drilling in a larger, square block of wood.  You would need to drill the tang at one angle, and the takeup bolt at another.  

I looked at my stock of blanks, the 2 3/8" thickness makes it tough.  I have one that would probably serve, but it's only 2 1/8".  Another at 2 1/4", but not as highly figured as you're looking for.  Not sure I ever want to sell my stock of wood that I've had drying for 20 years, though anyway!
  
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Reply #14 - Dec 18th, 2025 at 12:51pm
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Bob,  Sent a PM about the stock blank.
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