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ithacaartist · 03-20-2022, 08:27 PM

What Doug says...

They definitely tended to run out of walnut during the frenzy of wartime production, evidenced by beech-wood grips of late WWI. The guys who checkered wooden grips at the factory could certainly fly! I saw a film clip from a link once posted here, of a Mauser tech doing it. He seemed to be using a 5-line (or more) cutter and zoomed across the grip! Scraps from making K98 stocks provided much of the material, IIRC.

03-20-2022, 08:27 PM	#3
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,283 Thanks: 7,007 Thanked 2,476 Times in 1,319 Posts	What Doug says... They definitely tended to run out of walnut during the frenzy of wartime production, evidenced by beech-wood grips of late WWI. The guys who checkered wooden grips at the factory could certainly fly! I saw a film clip from a link once posted here, of a Mauser tech doing it. He seemed to be using a 5-line (or more) cutter and zoomed across the grip! Scraps from making K98 stocks provided much of the material, IIRC. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894