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ok, here's a question i can't find an answer to. i've been looking at my t99 long rifle and can't figure it out. what type of wood was used to make the type 99 long rifle (and presumably the regular t99)?
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../2wpny28-1.jpg
Milsurp Collector lists these wood types:
"...oni-gurumi Japanese Walnut (Juglans ailantifolia) also known as Siebold Walnut (Juglans sieboldiana)
buna Japanese Beech (fa gus crenata) also known as Siebold's beech
katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)..."
I'm thinking the long Type 99s are the walnut specified above.
thanks!
if that's what it is, it's amazing how Asian walnut and European walnut (with which i am much more familiar) look so much different
How about a close of of the stock. From the one photo, the color looks like the Japanese Beech.
I have a T-99 with the Beech wood. It's real hard not like the other woods used, Ray
okay, here are 2 close ups
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../2dtuadj-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...6/fasiu1-1.jpg
That's the same wood with which the long T99s I've had were stocked. Yours looks a bit lighter, and a little more open grained, but still similar. It's a "harder" wood than many later T99s.
It does'nt appear to be Beech though. Beech has that lighter freckeled half moon grain look. Ray