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Russian sks stock cutaway
theSKSguy45:
Using the wood for a project but I figured I’d share before cutting it up more
running-man:
What flavor SKS was it off of? The butt splice screams Russian to me, but it's hard to make out a ton of grain to compare to Arctic Birch. The dowel pin holding the splice looks...odd. Displaced in some way?
I have a couple that I sectioned in half myself (meaning to send them to the lab for wood analysis back in 2015 and just never got around to it). I'll see if I can find the photos on my hard drive somewhere. I remember the Russian stock was really light colored inside, but was *hard* as hell to cut. We tried on the band saw that had just successfully and relatively easily cut a supposedly Chinese Catalpa stock and it just laughed at us. 10 minutes in I gave up and finally sectioned it with two cuts on the table saw.
theSKSguy45:
It was from a Russian SKS. Actually it was the stock off of that first 1949 I had. The one with the spike bayonet haphazardly mated to it. Figured removing a fake 1949 stock from the gene pool was a good idea.
Using it for a knife handle.
theSKSguy45:
And the project is done. I’m no knifemaker but for an amateur I think it turned out alright. I added year of production marks and a serial number with my initials and birth year to further add to the sks inspired look
Phosphorus32:
That dowel joint is definitely peculiar.
Nice job on the knife scales. Looks beefy.
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