Thread: Walnut stock build (done the traditional way)

Originally Posted by Von Gruff Knives

I like cant as well as cast when building my own stocks


This was a superb blank I bought in from the US and with so much burl and grain changes was done primarily with rasps as planes and chisels could not take the grain changes without chipping etc.

Yes, that is a very nice piece of walnut, and beautiful lines too! But as you say, there’s no free lunches in life…. I guess there is something to be said for just the right amount of figure in a blank. I feel fortunate with this one I have just worked, good straight predictable grain, with some nice mineral lines and a touch of fiddleback that will show up nicely once finished.