Question About Beechwood And Longbranch

[CODFan]

What kind of wood is this?

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[Surpmil]

What kind of wood is this?

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How heavy is it? Canadian Rock Maple has a very definite weight that soldiers of the time did not enthuse over. It was also rather hard to work and there is a retired Canadian armourer hopefully still with us who told me how the W.O. in charge of one depot he worked in wrote off all the maple and had it burned as he disliked it so much! Several truck loads was the amount as I recall.

The edges are always crisper on the maple, unless it's been sanded down and you can just feel the density of the wood holding it in your hand.

I would guess maple for that butt, but the colour is a bit more like birch than the maple, which tended to be lighter than that IMO.

Maple was found to be the most suitable wood for stocking after walnut BTW.