Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
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Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
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Re: Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
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.
The curly option is nice but would be nice with a little dye added just to bring out the grain.
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Re: Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
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.
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I agree. I'd also try for no checkering.
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Re: Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
That certainly has a unique look! Trying to visualize how that stock would look on stainless.
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Re: Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
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.
Think of the old muzzle loaders, rich warm reddish brown , that shows the grain but tones it down.
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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.
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This...…..Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:28 am 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.
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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Re: Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
Rifles are blued and stocks are walnut!!!!!!!!
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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.
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Re: Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
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.
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.
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Re: Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
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. .
Re: Marlin adds curly maple furniture option to Model 336
The checkering has to go, the forearm needs slimmed, and the Maple while nice, needs a dye job, other then that its great, lol