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> Also I want a piece of fruitwood for a steeply-dropped butt on a
> full-length flintlock rifle stock. Sort-of bent at the base. I had a
> fine piece of wild cherry which was growing out of one of my hedges. It
> was just the right size, and just the right shape, and, it was beginning
> to show signs of dying-off, so I dug it out and sealed all the cut roots
> and the cut top with wax and left it in the cart-store for a few years.
> Being very hard-up when it was seasoned, and not knowing anyone who
> could be relied upon to do a proper job with a whizzy-round saw, I put
> it in a sawing horse and cut it down with a ripsaw. When the first plank
> fell away it revealed a patch of rot in such a position that I couldn't
> get a stock out of it at all.
> While the wood wasn't wasted, I still have the ironwork for a New
> England flintlock rifle waiting for attention...
You should've said earlier! We cut down a 20 y.o. plum tree
last year, to accommodate the summerhouse...
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AnneJ
“Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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