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I re stocked my 1945 MA Mk III full wood in teak brought the stock complete from a friend, it looks really good its pretty heavy as we all know the wood is very dense its a joy to shoot can those in the know were any rifles fitted up from scratch with teak or is it an after thing.
I will post pics on the rifle soon but wish to explore the forum as were they issued with this type of wood in WW II.
Thank you.
Attachment 46992We had a full set of pics on this forum reference all the different wood Australia used for stocking...everything from black to white...it's a bit hard to read, but if you increase your res to 200% it'll work.
They are all there the aussie woods no Wandoo but maybe that was to hard to work and besides it does not float!!!, but there is no teak! was this an Indian thingy!!!
I see they don't show a teak...I know India did Mahogany...don't know about teak. That'd be very nice though. Others will be along to confirm this for you.
Teak though wonderfully resistant to changes in temperature on account of its resin content its not very good in compression with the grain. Be wary of it splitting where recoil loads are taken. you may need a Ishy screw in the future.
The teak stock sets that were available here in Aus a number of years ago for a while were manufactured in Vietnam (or that region) for the guys who became AIA. They started out with a few cheek pieces, then went into foreends and full stock sets. Most required a fair degree of final fitting, the ones I saw although apparently kiln dried were still quite wet.
Fitted and finished properly they are very pretty, but are not military, and never used by the military.
If you use it I would check the foreend for movement every so often. Depending on final fit, dryness of the wood and even what part of the log the billets were cut from, the draws may be prone to compaction damage which might lead to serious damage.