Turkish Walnut?

[TheCapt]

I saw a youTube video where the guy was tinkering with a CZ 527 and opined that the walnut stock was in fact a walnut stain over some kind of light colored wood. Thereafter I got a couple small dings in my CZ 527 and noticed that it appears to have exposed a light-colored wood.  Anybody have any intel on this subject?

[crosstimbers]

Far as I can tell, all the stocks on my CZ rifles are in fact walnut. That being said, I have only refinished one of them. A couple have dings here and there, but still appear to be walnut to me.

[david s]

Some of the CZ rimfire rifles have birch stocks that are stained walnut color. The Trainer model and the Scout models come to mind, but I could be wrong on the models here. The Rustic model CZ 527 also had a birch stock with a destressed walnut finish to them. So, it is possible the Youtuber was correct.

[Wobbly]

The simple truth is: Not all walnut is dark.

[david s]

My CZ 527 in 6.5 Grendel is stained a sort of honey brown. It's very lightly colored compared to most CZ 527 stocks. The unstained inletting is basically appliance white in color. It's by far the plainest least figured CZ stock I own. When I first received it, I thought I'd gotten a one of the beech/birch stocked Rustic rifles by mistake as they were being offered at the same time. I asked a friend who is a professor at the school of forestry here if he thought the stock wood was walnut or beech/birch. Without hesitation here answered, "Walnut but the stocks been cut wrong grain wise". The grain runs thru the stock horizontally instead of the normal vertically. I had completely missed the grain flow thru the stock. The grain direction and the very light walnut color of the inletting totally thru me off in my assessment of it. So yes, walnut varies more than a little color wise.

[armoredman]

Interesting, never thought about cutting against the grain. My grandfather would have been able to say probably by smell, was a carpenter for most of his life, but he passed on years ago. Thanks for that info, quite interesting. I never really looked at the stock on my CZ 527M, since I had it replaced with that custom job.

[sign216]

For my 527 restocking project (see other thread) a woodworker at work told me that walnut lightens in color as it ages, which is different from most woods.  Just an fyi.