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    Type 99 Long Rifle; What Type Of Wood?

    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)?

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    Milsurp Collector lists these wood types:

    "...oni-gurumi Japaneseicon 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.

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    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

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    How about a close of of the stock. From the one photo, the color looks like the Japaneseicon Beech.
    I have a T-99 with the Beech wood. It's real hard not like the other woods used, Ray

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    okay, here are 2 close ups




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    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.

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    It does'nt appear to be Beech though. Beech has that lighter freckeled half moon grain look. Ray

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