doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com A Fred Adolph Flier:

Now there is a beautiful color. I like that one a lot.

I also find it interesting that these very ornately carved and checkered rifles of the highest quality seem to generally have rather plainly figured wood. Not a lot of crotch figure or feather, almost no marble cake grain, etc.

This one could almost be stained sugar maple for all the figure in it. But I suppose that there is purpose to that. A lot of grain would disguise the carving much like case coloring hides good engraving.

I am just now embarking on building a new rifle myself and so I wonder about these things some and I think about what I'm going to use for wood and where I might go to look for it.

Brent