Originally Posted By: Tbone-AZ
....."I would think that you can find 10/22 stocks for almost free"......
....."The real trick will be the staining and finishing afterwards.....
10/22 stocks are birch and birch is not a good wood to start out trying to learn on...it just simply does not checker very well or easily. You really want to give yourself the best chance at success. The best wood to learn how to checker on is also the best wood for a gunstock...english, french, turkish, circassian {it's all the same wood, juglans regia} You would probably not be too successful trying to checker a 10/22 especially as a "start out with" project.
Staining and finishing is no trick at all...that really is the easy part.
