This was done by Jessie, my wife’s cousins’ husband (Glad that’s over with) he is in his early 30s. Over the last three years he has been working on a couple things here in the shop a couple of bows and a rifle. The rifle was his first, very plain but got used to the tools. Only pic I got, took it down, sighted it in and he was off and running. Took about a year and a half since he could only work on it on Sundays, noon to 6 most of the time. About the only thing I know for sure about it is that it had a Sliler lock that we made up from a kit, the barrel had been laying around the shop for years and we made the rest, he did find out that filing is not the most fun thing to do in rifle building.
He came back with a picture of a club and wanted to try one, so we came up with this. I had a couple of chunks of wood and we laid one out on it. He did 99% of the work, I would show him and he did the work, like do an eye and he did the other. It is Maple, with some old stain on it with BLO, Turpentine and wax rubbed into it.
Jess does not have internet access, they live way out, so I will show him this when he comes over tomorrow.
Tim C.
