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[grousehunter]

I have a buddy that has rough cut CHERRY & OAK  (air dried)& (stacked properly) that is about 15 yrs old, if I would glue 3 or 4 of these together and send them out to have a stock cut, would it work suffiecently for a 270 or 06? rough cut is 1x6

[gunnut69]

You can glue up blanks and they would likely be OK. Generally cherry is fairly bland (lacking figure) and very dense. The oak is a more coarse grained wood and a bit more prone to cracking.. If all have been air dried and are sized and properly glued up they would work as well as a solid blank of the same type wood. Cherry tends to make a pretty heavy stock with a beautiful color but little figure. Laminating will not make it lighter nor improve it's figuring.. Oal makes a very poor choice for a gunstock. I would resaw the cherry to increase the number of layers and include lighting cuts, voids etc. to reduce the weight. Using a glue with a coloring agent would add a bit of eye interest to the resulting stock..