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Should be interesting

flexi

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Hi all, a good friend messaged me to tell me some bad news, one of his good customers had damaged his Perazzi shotgun stock and wondered if I would like it.... Heck yeah!!
The replacement stock will be somewhere in 4 figures and probably a trip to Italy to select the blank.... The offcast is costing me a couple of walnut fountain pens, one to the customer and one out to Italy to Perazzi....
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They are that good that they chequer the foot of the butt as opposed to fitting a recoil pad.... I best do something special with the Walnut, I know it won't be a CA finish!
 

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Lovely looking bit of walnut, Mark, with an interesting grain. ( I'm a bit envious..... Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's walnut )

Hope that you post some of the pens that you make from it.

Alan
 

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It should indeed be interesting. There used to be a stall at one of the regular Bisley Camp fairs that sold off cuts from walnut stocks. Would have been ideal for pen makers but I don’t suppose you get many at Gun fairs! :funny:
 

flexi

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Hi William, there are still gun fairs and Millitaria markets, just not highly publicised ( I wonder why:thinks:)
I used to have a few stockers local to me who indeed would sell cut offs from blanks, not always cheap and not always with the grain:rant:.... I have found a nice supplier of laminate stock offcuts, they work nicely... But decent walnut is getting harder to source especially with "sustainability" policy's.
I have cut a few old stocks up, they can be wasteful with fixing holes and lock cut outs, but they can be a good source especially at this price:banana::banana:
 

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Well done. Should make some very nice pens. Reading your post reminded me I have full rifle stock that came off a .303 P14. Not sure what the wood is I will have to have a look.:thumbs:
 

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Hi Ian, I am going traditional London gun stock finish, which is predominantly an oil finish and loads of coats:thumbs::thumbs:
 
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