We can use our wood or you are welcome to send your own.  Our standard wood is original type Eastern thick shell American walnut. We also have a good supply of English walnut and maple. Other species are available from us in limited quantities; if we do not have what you want, you may order from your supplier and send to us for machining. If customer wood has defects that make it unusable, the machining will still be charged for. All our wood is from the Midwest and is the best quality that we can find. Figured wood is expensive, but very fancy wood is not required for a handsome stock. Very fancy wood for forearms is not desirable, as it is not stable and will cause problems. Forearm wood is matched as well as possible, and in some cases, especially in oversize blanks, comes from the same piece of wood. The various grades of wood are listed below. The grades are difficult to describe exactly due to natural variation.

Stocks requiring oversize wood are noted with an asterisk (*) in the catalog.