Guys,
I have been wanting to post this for a while .. I have been working hard to keep up with my orders for Lam grips, rifle stocks and other shop projects during the last two months but finally, here it is. These pics show 9 boxes full of sorted sized and matched Semi fancy, Fancy and exhitbtion grade becker grips. There are an avrage of 30 sets per box ,so that's over 250 sets of grip blanks!
I was forced to get organized with these as a few months ago when my shop started to resembled the original Star Trek TV episode called "The trouble with Tribbles". You know the one where the Starship Enterprise is over ran by those cute little alien furballs that reproduced at an alarming rate..After sorting through 10 years work of high grade gunstock wood cutoffs, the little gems were taking over my shop, so they need to be rounded up an corralled before they stampeded the workbench.
There are blanks sets cut for all the Bcker families- Large BKs, Tweeners, and the neck knives. About 80 Large sets, about 80 Tweener sets , 50 half length Neck knife grips and another 50 full length Necker blanks. The species are mostly American Eastern Black Walnut, Western Black Walnut, Bastogne Walnut ( English/Black Hybrid), Turkish Grown Walnut, Eastern Hard Maple, Western Big Leaf Maple, Curly Eastern Cherry and Oregon Myrtlewood. Most of this wood came off of blanks that were worth $200-600 + in their raw form- high grade stuff. They are the choice bits.
Like all high grade gunstock wood they are air dried. These are about 10 years+ old. The bright sunlight these pics were taken in washes out the color quite a bit but due to the air drying, the colors in these peices of wood are gorgeous. As grips are made from them, More detailed pics will show up in the next few days and weeks. They are hard, dense and not just picked for figure but grain flow and lack of imperfections for strength- which I feel is important on Beckers- especially the big knives.
Most of this wood will be milled in the next 8 weeks into grip inventory. I have some great life changes coming in August (for the better) and I have to mill through these while I have the time.
The bottom pic shows a closeup of the first BK sets finished from this group.
Stay tuned to this station for more updates as they become available.. Thanks for looking
The group-(Most of it)
Large BK sets-
Tweena Wood-
Necker blanks-
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p241/willbergerwood/008-58.jpg
Destined for Greybush-
I have been wanting to post this for a while .. I have been working hard to keep up with my orders for Lam grips, rifle stocks and other shop projects during the last two months but finally, here it is. These pics show 9 boxes full of sorted sized and matched Semi fancy, Fancy and exhitbtion grade becker grips. There are an avrage of 30 sets per box ,so that's over 250 sets of grip blanks!
I was forced to get organized with these as a few months ago when my shop started to resembled the original Star Trek TV episode called "The trouble with Tribbles". You know the one where the Starship Enterprise is over ran by those cute little alien furballs that reproduced at an alarming rate..After sorting through 10 years work of high grade gunstock wood cutoffs, the little gems were taking over my shop, so they need to be rounded up an corralled before they stampeded the workbench.
There are blanks sets cut for all the Bcker families- Large BKs, Tweeners, and the neck knives. About 80 Large sets, about 80 Tweener sets , 50 half length Neck knife grips and another 50 full length Necker blanks. The species are mostly American Eastern Black Walnut, Western Black Walnut, Bastogne Walnut ( English/Black Hybrid), Turkish Grown Walnut, Eastern Hard Maple, Western Big Leaf Maple, Curly Eastern Cherry and Oregon Myrtlewood. Most of this wood came off of blanks that were worth $200-600 + in their raw form- high grade stuff. They are the choice bits.
Like all high grade gunstock wood they are air dried. These are about 10 years+ old. The bright sunlight these pics were taken in washes out the color quite a bit but due to the air drying, the colors in these peices of wood are gorgeous. As grips are made from them, More detailed pics will show up in the next few days and weeks. They are hard, dense and not just picked for figure but grain flow and lack of imperfections for strength- which I feel is important on Beckers- especially the big knives.
Most of this wood will be milled in the next 8 weeks into grip inventory. I have some great life changes coming in August (for the better) and I have to mill through these while I have the time.
The bottom pic shows a closeup of the first BK sets finished from this group.
Stay tuned to this station for more updates as they become available.. Thanks for looking
The group-(Most of it)
Large BK sets-
Tweena Wood-
Necker blanks-
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p241/willbergerwood/008-58.jpg
Destined for Greybush-
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