Originally Posted By: cpa
Could you please respond to the above comment about how CNC carving results in movement in seasoned wood, but hand chisels are different.[?]

Thanks for asking that question. I have the same thought immediately.

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I've also always understood that there is a difference between kiln dried wood and seasoned air dry wood when it comes to stability. That is, that dryness is not the only reason to use seasoned wood. There are certainly lots of fancy grained stocks being hand carved without the necessity of additional inlettings and without apparent "springback".


Exactly.

I am all but certain that Shiloh uses CNC with very little if any hand fitting. Their guns are easily the best factory made guns in the nation and their fitting has no flies on it.

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