This is the warped blank, from which the fancy offcut came from, I mentioned in the linseed post.

Sorry my images don't seem to have captured the real colour of the blank, at least on my lap top screen they don't look very good. The actual colour is the same nice goldy colour you see in the better images of the offcut in the linseed thread.

The offcut is thinner as I have sanded it a few times over the years, trying different finish's on it.

The wood is English walnut from the high north west coast of USA. I acquired it mid 1996, at that time it had been curing only about 1.5 years. It had some bend when I got it. I didn't try to keep it straight, better to let the wood go if it wants to bend I think.

I will try to use it for a personal project one day. It's too fancy for some types of stocks. It should be good on a single shot rifle using a Hagn action perhaps, and with an extra barrel or 2 as there is enough wood for at least 2 forends. The forends would be perfectly matched to the grip area of the butt, the colour and figure flows really well, and matched to each other.

The wood is quarter sawn through the forends and the grip then it goes wild in the butt.

If I move the layout further forward I could get a bolt action stock out of it but it has a large flaw from top to bottom, indicated by the black felt pen line half way along, that would be very difficult to cut out.

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