Win. stock question.

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   HI. I have a 5786xxx Winne with a stock that I have not seen before. It is heavy and tighter grain. It's marked W in well and is flat bottom. I have not seen a stock with grain like this before. Can anyone tell me why the grain is like this and are there many out there like this.   Thanks for your help.

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Smoky 1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recruit Joined: Dec 22 2018 Location: Weippe, ID Status: Offline Points: 76	Post Options Post Reply Quote Smoky 1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Win. stock question. Posted: Jul 31 2022 at 5:51pm
	HI. I have a 5786xxx Winne with a stock that I have not seen before. It is heavy and tighter grain. It's marked W in well and is flat bottom. I have not seen a stock with grain like this before. Can anyone tell me why the grain is like this and are there many out there like this. Thanks for your help. u Edited by New2brass - Jul 31 2022 at 7:29pm

Smoky 1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recruit Joined: Dec 22 2018 Location: Weippe, ID Status: Offline Points: 76	Post Options Post Reply Quote Smoky 1 Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: Jul 31 2022 at 5:59pm


floydthecat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Hard Corps Joined: Oct 13 2016 Location: Mississippi Status: Offline Points: 1927	Post Options Post Reply Quote floydthecat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Jul 31 2022 at 7:06pm
	Not trying to be cute here, but the pattern in the piece of wood they used will dictate the looks. There is no special way they could prepare a blank of wood to look like that on purpose….it just turned out that way and it could have been a limb for all we know. My 2-cents and that might be all it’s worth.

Smokpole Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Hard Corps Joined: Oct 21 2019 Location: Madison ohio Status: Offline Points: 991	Post Options Post Reply Quote Smokpole Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: Jul 31 2022 at 7:59pm
	How it looks depends on how the blank was cut and how straight the original log was. Personally I like quarter sawn logs for the nicest grain.
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john843 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recruit Joined: Jan 29 2021 Location: south carolina Status: Offline Points: 97	Post Options Post Reply Quote john843 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Jul 31 2022 at 10:13pm
	I've got an oval high-wood Inland stock that has the same thing going on that yours does just aft the cartouche with what looks like two different textures of wood. Mine looks very similar in that the rearmost section of the stock behind the cartouche is a smoother grain fingering out forward. Mine has never been repaired or sanded so like floydthecat and smokepole said, it's just the luck of the draw- or maybe, the saw! John

Matt_X Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Grunt Joined: Nov 10 2020 Location: Phila, Penn Status: Offline Points: 731	Post Options Post Reply Quote Matt_X Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: Aug 01 2022 at 8:42am
	If you go to the lumber yard and look through the boards you'll see a lot of flatsawn which results in grain getting exposed like you see on that stock. Quarter sawn reduces that. Here's a illustration from Les Paul guitar forum showing how the cuts effect the grai figure on the surface. https://i0.wp.com/www.westphaliawoodworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Log.jpg?fit=1200%2C899 and this one from Highland Woodworking which better illustrates the realities of sawing a log. https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/woodworking-tips-1606jun/dtew/saw-mills-and-board-descriptions.html

Smoky 1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recruit Joined: Dec 22 2018 Location: Weippe, ID Status: Offline Points: 76	Post Options Post Reply Quote Smoky 1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Aug 01 2022 at 8:50am
	Thanks everyone for the great information. I have not seen that texture on any other carbine stock and I was sure you guys would know.

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	Depending on the size of the Walnut log that your blank was cut from, the smoother and darker cut is from the heartwood of the tree, and the transition to sapwood is lighter in color and will not finish as smooth, which is what you are seeing in your photos. The sapwood can range from almost none on slower dense growth, to a few inches in faster growing trees say in an open field.

Smoky 1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Recruit Joined: Dec 22 2018 Location: Weippe, ID Status: Offline Points: 76	Post Options Post Reply Quote Smoky 1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Aug 02 2022 at 6:37pm
	Thanks to everyone. I know more now than before.