I keep any eye out at the gun shows for broken or damaged gun stocks which usually run around $5-10.
Les
Some of those high-grade wood stocks can cost a couple of thousand dollars to buy, off course 2/3 of it is for actually making the rifle/shotgun stock but the raw blank can be of the very highest grade and very rare to find pieces of unless you know someone in Turkey where they produce the best Walnut in the world.
We actually did have such a person on IAP selling the Walnut quite regularly, I haven't seen it for awhile but, we would sell many blanks from the various grades cut originally as gun-stocks, the left overs from the blocks/boards the stocks are cut from, that is what he would salvage and share with everybody here, I endup getting some from him and I'm glad I did.
Knowing a gunsmith can be a good way to score these type of woods, particularly when quality stocks get broken, they are normally replaced and offer little to no use to the gunsmith that in most cases, will be happy to get it out of his workshop for a few beers...!:wink:
Cheers
George