#4 butt stock color
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Topic: #4 butt stock color
Posted By: Canuck
Subject: #4 butt stock color
Date Posted: June 05 2016 at 11:48am
A buddy has these butt stocks with an odd reddish color to them. here are some pics. We can identify the walnut and the beech but.....those reddish ones we can't figure out what kind of wood they are. No markings on them at all in mint shape like new fresh out of the linseed tank.  ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: June 05 2016 at 1:47pm
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Was he linseed old? It does change color with age, but usually to a brownish color not reddish. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: June 05 2016 at 1:54pm
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We're thinking now it could be the experimental red maple as mentioned in Stratton's book, volume 2 on page 161. Thanks for your input though, Shamu! That same page also mentions experimental laminate stocks for the #4 which I had not read about before. Never say never with Enfields! ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: SW28fan
Date Posted: June 06 2016 at 6:51am
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Might be Elm, which was a common hard wood in that era
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Posted By: ikesdad
Date Posted: June 06 2016 at 9:30pm
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Everytime I order a beech butt from SS, those same red ones are what I get. I have 3 or 4 still out in the garage. Nothing too special about them.Could the bottom 2 be birch ? They look like my son's Stevens 22 birch stock in color & grain.
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: June 08 2016 at 10:04pm
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I have see a butt stock that looked like teak. ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |