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General discussion => Gun Building => Topic started by: Mike Brooks on December 08, 2021, 07:31:43 PM
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Dave Rase does his magic again. ;D
(https://i.ibb.co/QPbGPFH/20211208-102754.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Wkx1kWz)
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Curly Q'd like Ed Lunquists latest gun
(https://i.ibb.co/bd8r6Ss/20211208-103452.jpg) (https://ibb.co/YjqtNzc)
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Even has built in cast off! Peachy keen!
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Oooo you know it costs extra to buy a stock with that extra bit of off set. They are rare to find. ::)
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Crazy wood!
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Nifty (work)
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Nice wood! Whatcha making?
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Nice wood! Whatcha making?
Another nifty Lehigh with a nifty 38.5 caliber 44" Hoyt swamped barrel. I'm thinking I need to keep a few nifty rifles as I haven't had one for about 20 years.
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Hi,
Dave Rase is so talented and skilled. He did a really nice job on that one, Mike.
dave
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"I'm thinking I need to keep a few nifty rifles as I haven't had one for about 20 years." Especially since it is 38.5 caliber. :)
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At least that blank was fairly square so it is just a matter of finding the limits of the breech and then laying the rest of it out. A real challenge is a twisted blank of Armenian walnut with a warp.
David
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It's just plain magic !
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I can't imagine what the length of pull is going to be.
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Hi Dave,
A twisted blank of American walnut with a warp is called firewood.
dave
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I can't imagine what the length of pull is going to be.
I'm thinking somewhere around 13.5 would be pretty nifty.
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I'm thinking somewhere around 13.5 would be pretty nifty.
Agreed, Nifty & pretty.
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Did you mean that you are building this for yourself Mr. Brooks?
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Did you mean that you are building this for yourself Mr. Brooks?
I hope so. I have several guns I have to make before I even get to it.
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That's the position I found myself in Mike, so I stopped working for other folks and now make rifles just for myself. In the winter of 2019 I made five muzzleloaders, and ended up with three of those to add to my stable. Perfect.
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You are not by chance left handed are you Mike ? Or have a left master eye ?
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You are not by chance left handed are you Mike ? Or have a left master eye ?
Nope. I can shoot hand guns either handed though.
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Reminds me of the old saying”never give up!”
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At least that blank was fairly square so it is just a matter of finding the limits of the breech and then laying the rest of it out. A real challenge is a twisted blank of Armenian walnut with a warp.
David
I did a heavy rifle for a friend last spring. He sent me a 1 7/8" plank of curly maple that was warped. Managed to get enough angle to the barrel channel with the 1 1/4" across the flats barrel so that it was not cast on. But I had just enough wood left for the panel opposite the lock. Took a lot of head scratching and sweat though. If it had been swamped I would have let YOU sweat over it. It was a nice piece of wood though.
Dan
(https://i.ibb.co/jTC2gQ5/5170-E163-95-A5-47-AC-A83-F-7-CD0-C207611-A-1-105-c.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QfWRrTc)
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Reminds me of the old saying”never give up!”
I've done this before with a stock as warped as this with no problems, thanks to Rases talent. Some folks gave me pour odds of avoiding more stock warp as I took wood off the forestock. But if the wood is cured you shouldn't have any problems...unless you do...🙄
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Mike,
How were the stock and barrel shipped back and forth. Were they separate, in a box, or just the barrel taped to the blank.
I've got half a dozen blanks with barrels inlet that I'm going to sell and I wonder the "best" way to ship them.
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I always ship with the barrel taped into the inlet as you see in the pictures. USPS is holding two more stocks with barrels inlet hostage at the moment. MIA for a week now😬
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In Canada, for items coming up from the States, Customs holds onto "gun-stuff-air-guns as well" for weeks if commercial (for small home business as well) and charges a daily "storage fee".