Customs confiscated entire order!

[dmforcier]

What I find as amazing as the years is that they can grow to maturity in a completely dry environment.

[Worth1]

Wood is never completely dry and shrinks and swells as the weather permits.
Some woods are more prone to this than others.
You can take a round dowel made out of red oak and blow smoke through it.
Even with a cheap modern finish on it it will get moisture in it.

The only way around this is to use turpentine mixed with a good oil like pure tung oil and soak the wood till it wont take anymore.
Then you start putting on pure oil.
I have put on as many as 100 coats of oil on my gun stocks doing this.
Oil sanding and mudding along the way to seal the grain.
Today's products are a fake of what the read deal is.

Worth

[dustdevil]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Wood is never completely dry and shrinks and swells as the weather permits.
Some woods are more prone to this than others.
You can take a round dowel made out of red oak and blow smoke through it.
Even with a cheap modern finish on it it will get moisture in it.

The only way around this is to use turpentine mixed with a good oil like pure tung oil and soak the wood till it wont take anymore.
Then you start putting on pure oil.
I have put on as many as 100 coats of oil on my gun stocks doing this.
Oil sanding and mudding along the way to seal the grain.
Today's products are a fake of what the read deal is.

Worth

White oak is a much denser oak...keeps the wine in the barrel.

Plastic furniture is really killing off the use of classic quality wooden stocks. Stamped components don't cut it either. It used to be custom engraving was the mark of pride...now they can't even put stamped letters and numbers on straight

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

White oak is a much denser oak...keeps the wine in the barrel.

Plastic furniture is really killing off the use of classic quality wooden stocks. Stamped components don't cut it either. It used to be custom engraving was the mark of pride...now they can't even put stamped letters and numbers on straight

There are many varieties of white oak, the choice wood for building ships.
I had a guy with plenty of money ask me to build a custom Mauser rifle for him.
When I gave the price he said I could buy a new one for less than that.
Good go buy it.
As for customs there are plenty of ways to get around it depending on what it is.

One time a place I worked for got an order in for some high priced exotic endangered wood.
It was on some sort of no export list.
How they got it to us was it was made into a pallet holding more wood that was easily taken apart to use the lumber.

Worth

[dustdevil]

Removed...off topic.