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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: frontier gander on April 04, 2014, 01:28:41 AM

Title: Shes all done!
Post by: frontier gander on April 04, 2014, 01:28:41 AM

MANY coats of low gloss tung oil, buffed every 3 coats with 0000 steel wool. Last night I rubbed it down with boiled linseed oil and let it dry over night, wiped it down with a rag and shes very good looking now. Its amazing what an oil finish does VS a spray on finish, this stock was originally a orange looking color.

.40cal GM TC Hawken

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Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: ken on April 04, 2014, 03:11:07 AM

Looks really good Now I hope It shoots as good as she looks ;)    ken

Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: Candle Snuffer on April 04, 2014, 03:45:05 AM

It does look good!

Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: JoeG on April 04, 2014, 05:21:52 AM

Looks really good you did a nice job on the lock moldings

Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: D. Taylor Sapergia on April 04, 2014, 07:45:10 PM

I've got to hand it to you, FG...from your photos I see two things.  The grain of the walnut appears to be pretty well filled, and the finish looks well done.  Looks like a dense piece of walnut.

Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: Pete G. on April 04, 2014, 09:49:01 PM

Whenever you clean it use linseed and then wipe off as much as you can with a paper towel. Then it will really start to glow.

You tie a string on the TG so you can find your rifle when you drop it in the snow?

Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: frontier gander on April 04, 2014, 09:56:02 PM

I'll be tying a leather weeping heart capper onto the other end.
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Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: hpdrifter on April 05, 2014, 09:41:15 AM

I always wanted to do that to mine, but the brass got a nice patina to it and I didn't want to disturb that.  It was close to orange itself.  I also wanted to take a little off of the trigger pull length, but someone relieved me of my TC, so it never did come to fruition.

Also, a little more drop woulda been nice.  Come to think of it, I kinda like my Lyman GP a little bit better than my old TC.

Anyhoo, that sure is a nice looking rifle now. Nice results.

Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: hanshi on April 06, 2014, 12:59:23 AM

It's a very nice looking job you did on that rifle; looks really good.  Plus it's a .40!

Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: Scout on April 07, 2014, 09:01:17 PM

Very PURDY !  :) I didn't know TC made a .40 in that style.

Title: Re: Shes all done!
Post by: WaterFowl on April 15, 2014, 01:51:56 PM

That rifle has a Green Mountain dropin barrel on it.
15/16" x 32" they are shooters!