Last week I posted about putting the wood to an AR-15:
…whereupon Reader Butch B. sent me his treatment thereof, along similar lines:
Using Cerakote for the steel, and wood instead of plastic, he calls it his “Fudd-riffic AR-15” (right-click to embiggen).
I have to say, that looks rather fetching — kinda like a modern version of the venerable M1 Garand. (Butch, can you send me the details of where you found that wood furniture? I am really intrigued…)
If you are fond of wood on an assault rifle go old school….
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BTDT.
OK, what does BTDT STAND FOR?
A does that image give you wood?
Never was a AK fan but I do have an AR in 7.62×39.
Stands for: Been There, Done That.
Yeah, I’m liking that. I like the gray, but wondering what matte black would look like. And, because I have a wild streak, what about curly or birdseye maple for the wood?
A link to the furniture would be cool.
Who says old guys can’t sport wood? 😀
Wood furniture on an AR just looks weird to me. The Cerakote gray is slightly better, but that big wedge shaped butt stock is, was, and always be ugly. No amount of lipstick is going to make that pig pretty.
Weird how wood stocks on the AK & FAL look fine but so odd on the AR.
A callback to the M-1 Garand was what I was trying to achieve. The metal bits were Cerakoted to mimic Parkerized steel. I used retro-looking fixed iron sights. I stained the furniture to match the Springfield Armory red. The WWII GI web sling completes the look.
I bought unfinished furniture from from Black Guns Wood (http://www.blackgunswood.com/). However, they have retired. An interwebz search should yield another vendor.
I achieved the Springfield red stain by using alcohol-based light red mahogany and medium brown walnut stains. I diluted both four to one using rubbing alcohol to lighten them, laid down a base coat of the brown followed by a coat of the red. I applied four coats of boiled linseed oil and lightly rubbed it down with 0000 steel wool between coats.
It was a more expensive build than a garden variety poodle shooter, but it makes me – and everybody who sees it – smile. The gunshop that did the Cerakoting loved the final product.
That reminds me of something. While I was at a 3 gun zombie themed match 10,12 years back, there were these two dudes dressed up in Cowboy action shooting gear, running *black powder* 1911s and AR-15s with very handsome wood furniture.
I shit you not.
The guns belched giant black clouds of smoke, and were actually accepted as CAS legal (at least back then, dunno about now)
Of course, they garnered a lot of attention. IIRC, they said that the 1911s ran forever, but they hadda detail strip and scrub the ARs down to the screws, pins and springs after every match, and they did tend to hang up towards the end of the day, so finishing the match was never a given.
I like what Butch did with his. In years past I was tempted but didnt think it would look good with my black receivers. Using ceracote on the receivers is a great touch, if I could still shoot rifles I’d do it.
I built a 300 BLK for my BIL using Woox stock and grip. They did not have handguard options at that time. It was pricey, but everything was for this SBR.