Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336

[wm]

https://www.guns.com/news/2018/12/07/ma ... r-gun-line

This PSA is brought to you by a guy too tired to tinker in his work room and too bored to do anything besides drink coffee and surf the net.

Wm


p.s. https://www.marlinfirearms.com/lever-ac ... urly-maple

[GunnyMack]

That means you need the coffee pot in your work room
The curly option is nice but would be nice with a little dye added just to bring out the grain.

[bmtshooter]

Now if they would do something about that "thick as a brick" forearm, they might be on to something. The forearm is about as svelte as a Louisville Slugger.

[Blaine]

That means you need the coffee pot in your work room
The curly option is nice but would be nice with a little dye added just to bring out the grain.

I agree. I'd also try for no checkering.

[claybob86]

That certainly has a unique look! Trying to visualize how that stock would look on stainless.

[J Miller]

Me: Ugly
Wife: Gaudy

What's wrong with good old walnut?



Joe

[GunnyMack]

Yes the plain maple is a bit of a stretch, that's why it needs just a bit of color. Curly maple is dense and takes a lot of abuse. But that WHITE color is too bright.

Think of the old muzzle loaders, rich warm reddish brown , that shows the grain but tones it down.

[Bill in Oregon]

Strip it down, stain with aqua fortis, heated, then hand-rub many coats of linseed. I have never understood this urge to finish maple as Danish blonde. Yuck. Sam and Jake Hawken would be ashamed.

[Pete44ru]

Strip it down, stain with aqua fortis, heated, then hand-rub many coats of linseed. I have never understood this urge to finish maple as Danish blonde. Yuck. Sam and Jake Hawken would be ashamed.

This...…..

Once upon a time, I stumbled across a sporterized 1903A3 Springfield that had been awkwardly re-stocked in a bright Maple.

I stripped the stock & stained it lightly with a Walnut stain - after finishing with Tru-Oil, the stock looked like a nice honey-colored Curly Maple.

I like the look of the new Marlin, following on the heels of Winchester's & Browning's offerings of factory Maple-stocked guns.


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[JerryB]

Rifles are blued and stocks are walnut!!!!!!!!

[gamekeeper]

I'm not sure if I like it or not but if it was mine I'd use it as is then dye it if it didn't grow on me.

[marlinman93]

I really find light colored wood on a blued gun to be ugly. I wouldn't want this option if it was free. If they darkened it up it would look better, but still not as nice as good walnut.

I have a couple old Ballard single shot rifles in birdseye maple, and that's a much nicer look than this curly maple. One is a Pope-Ballard and one is a Schoyen-Ballard. Both have a much warmer color than this Marlin curly maple.

[.45colt]

I have a bunch of Marlin rifles, but those are just ugly....If the Hildybeast was a shooter that one would be her go to gun. .

[gcs]

The checkering has to go, the forearm needs slimmed, and the Maple while nice, needs a dye job, other then that its great, lol