Name the Wood Please

ATF

Can anyone Please tell me what kind of wood this is? What ever it is, it's sure NICE Thank You [^]

woodoctor

Hard to tell without a closer look; but I would guess Maple or birch that has been stained dark before finishing.

sandwarrior

It could be light colored walnut. I see more and more of that. There really isn't a way to tell unless the stock gets stripped/sanded down to bare wood. Or possibly if you took the barreled action out of the stock there may be some unstained/un-oiled wood underneath the barrel or the action.

11b6r

Absolute wild guess here- do an image search for claro walnut blanks and circassian walnut blanks. Grain to drool over. Circassian may be called Turkish walnut by some.

ATF

I was just told by a friend that a lot of Husqvarna rifles (which this is) were stocked with Artic Beech? anyone ever hear of this wood? Thank You [?]

GuvamintCheese

Walnut!

Swampwood

Looks like a Brazilian tiger wood[?]

nononsense

ATF,

There is a possibility that this is what can be referred to as Artic Birch or Russian Birch.

The Scandinavians and Russians used this wood on bolt actions as well as SKS rifles. Many of these stocks underwent a process of 'fire hardening' or kiln drying at high temperatures. This not only drove out the moisture but 'caramelized' the sap (darkened/richened) which changed the over all colors and added the darker areas that you see in your photograph. It can be construed as looking similar to fiddle back or some Claro grain structures but it is a function of the heat and its affect on the sap.

Best.

gumbydamnit

Here is my Remington 721 in 300 H&H mag, looks pretty close. Mine is walnut, very hard walnut, harder and denser than any walnut stocks or lumber I have worked with before, but it did not look like this until I took all the varnish and stain off and coated it with several coats of tru oil.

beantownshootah

quote:Originally posted by ATF
Can anyone Please tell me what kind of wood this is? What ever it is, it's sure NICE Thank You [^]



Very hard to say with just that image, and even with multiple images, its still not going to be easy.

From here, it could just be nice walnut.

v35

Without better or closer pictures to indicate otherwise, I think it may be Birch with simulated tiger striping done with stain.

TRAP55

The Finns stocked M39 Mosins with some Artic birch that makes that look relatively mild as far as the tiger striping.
But Artic birch is too soft to take checkering like that, my bet is Circassian walnut.