Thread: Walnut Stock Build

I wasn’t going to make this thread until I was a bit further along, however perhaps with the current lockdown now’s a good time. I know I appreciate reading similar threads created by other members – they help keep your thoughts off the hunting most of us wish we were doing at the moment.

Anyway, I’ll post up to where I’m currently at. After that updates will be a lot slower – even with the lockdown I still have plenty of demands on my time from work, a young family etc. Also, in my own time I prefer to work slowly and carefully – a luxury I don’t always get in work hours. Bear in mind too that I’m only a hobby machinist and this is the first time I’ve attempted to make a stock. Some might say I tend to do things the hard way.

The pictures should tell most of the story, but comments and questions welcome.

Step 1 – start with an old, large (~1m diameter trunk) English Walnut that’s shortly about to kick the bucket from natural causes anyway. This was back in 2010:



Step 2 - fell:







Step 3 - mill:







Step 4 - stack, store and wait:



More to come...