It is very important to carefully select wood because even after years of natural seasoning a piece of wood can still have some small movements those are not allowed to exist on fine guns .

All our blanks are naturally seasoned for a minimum of seven years and, in addition, all stocks are worked following a slow process in order to allow a perfect marriage with the steel.We always select blanks looking first at their machanical properties ( grain, flaw, layout etc.) and only after that, at their beauty.

Guido Rizzini always had a great passion for walnut and kept on buying all those pieces he found interesting for his shotguns. At present we can offer a choice of over 600 blanks that can satisfy almost every taste.

View of our wood room

If you make guns respecting tradition you cannot do the inletting of the stocks by a machine. The work must be done by hand so the wood is slowly hand cut following its fibers and carefully fitted to the steel parts with the proper tolerances just using chisels, files and sand paper.

When somebody looks at the glass-like perfect surface of our stocks, he immediately notes that the shadows reflected have no waves : this is the way to measure the work's quality. Opaque finish of surfaces is an easy way to mask small flaws of the finish. Bright polish takes so much time that just a few try to apply it.

Oil polishing a stock     Click here to see video

Rounded edges can be another sign of bad work: a best gun must have cutting edges on each of its metal and wood components .

To complete our oil polishing and checkering, we need more than seventy days, but the result is under your eyes.