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Offline Mike Brooks

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That Kettenburg kid again.....
« on: December 07, 2015, 03:19:34 PM »
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What an incredible piece of work. Absolutely natural. History just drips off of this gun.
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2015, 04:05:04 PM »
WOW,now that's truly amazing, wonderful!!!!!
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2015, 05:09:23 PM »
Eric's not fooling me, he found that rifle in a barn! And I'm glad he did, beautiful work by both he and Ken.

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I hope y'all drug that behind a HC / PC tractor! Kidding of course, would love to hear some detail on the aging process.
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2015, 05:39:13 PM »
Mr Kettenburg hits another home run! ned
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2015, 06:28:30 PM »
Holy cats and jamercats! Wow! Shazam! Great work on all three items.  :o
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Offline Kermit

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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2015, 07:58:13 PM »
Eric, can you tell us about it maybe? Stunning work, that.
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2015, 10:24:59 PM »
Beautiful rifle and the most amazing aging I have ever seen.  Very cool.
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2015, 10:42:58 PM »
That particular rifle was made a couple years ago. He sure does the funky Lehigh like nobody else.
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2015, 10:55:29 PM »
Yep, charmingly funky. I like how the plane of the buttplate doesn't match the top plane of the buttstock. Something you see occasionally on originals but almost never on contemporary guns.
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2015, 10:19:10 PM »
neat set.

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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2015, 01:34:36 AM »
Excellent, Mike you hit the nail on the head. Most amazing ageing effect I have ever seen!!!!!!!
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2015, 02:28:00 AM »
Jeez! That shows more age than the W Winn rifle (in another thread) that really is 150+/- years old. Very artistically done as always and aged to perfection :o
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2015, 02:34:57 AM »
Love the funky factor also.
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Offline k gahagan

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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2015, 03:51:54 AM »
Incredible, couldn't get any better than this.
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2015, 03:25:39 PM »
    I think Eric, camped out with the Angstadt brothers for a couple of nights before he built this one.   Wearing the sharp end off the butt plate extension would have been a nice effect--Of course you would have to drag the gun behind you from Berks Co. to Lehigh Co.    Ok, I am jealous....
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Re: That Kettenburg kid again.....
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2015, 08:37:37 PM »
He beat up that wood just right........I can't bring myself to ever do that much~ :P
nice horn and stich work on the strap!!! close and even~~~!

nice things....hats off to em boys!!!! ;D
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