Hows this hand made stock

[Homer]

Looks fantastic. Wish I had these skills.

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looks like maple.

But I dont know. been shopping around for maple for my 41 Lithgow.

seems that maple is now some sort of endangered speicies and harvesting it is either illegal or very limited?

havent found any blanks to do a III with.....yet......

I have seen a mint 55 lithgow in maple and the parkerised tin contrasting with this maple . gorgeous.

I've wanted a Lithgow just because of that ever since.

mine has maple uppers but the lower and the butt are coach wood.

funtional but not as pretty.

Mike I must say, this stock doesn't look anything like Queensland maple to me.

Also there's no 55 lithgows mate. 1953 perhaps but the batch of 1000 made in 1953 were stocked in coachwood. In fact your very unlikely to find a rifle dated after 1940 stocked in maple. If you log onto Gunboards and search for some of my old threads, you'll be able to examine heaps of early and later dated lithgows, to compare the two wood types. My user name is Demo over there.