Pray please tell me what does the composition of automotive coatings and how they are applied have to do with a Kentucky long rifles?
It has to do with the fact that yet again you’re flapping your gums about something you know nothing about and making generalized statements based on utter ignorance.
First off, if you want to get all “historically correct” why do you show everyone how to build a long rifle without using your modern lathe, milling machine, drill press, electricity in any form including lights, magic markers and all the other goodies you so frequently ramble on about, often to the point of causing nausea?
If you had even the most remote understanding of loose media for metal preparation, you would know that it does not require an air compressor and the use of loose media for metal finishing goes back about 33 centuries before the long rifle was invented. The “sand paper” you so adamantly advocate using for your alleged “historically correct” finish wasn’t available in the longrifle era. As a matter of fact, the first coated abrasive paper was not available in America until late 1934, four years into the percussion ignition era! And, if you really want to get snippy about it, abrasives capable of being worthy for use on iron/steel were not available in coated or formed versions until the late 1800’s. Ever use historically correct “glass paper” Dan? I’ll bet not because if you did, you would know that it’s not only utterly worthless for iron but pretty much worthless for hardwood too.
Go one further and the fancy LPG/white-gas stoves you advocate using came after the advent of the breechloading cartridge rifle … and those wire brushes in the electric power drill are even later yet. Thus, you have sufficiently defeated your own “historically correct” claim.
Not only do you not know historical facts, you don’t know modern methods or materials either. First off, one does not need an air compressor, nor a cabinet … and as for all that “costly equipment”, just about everyone has a shop vacuum already, add $100 to it and you’ve got a nice little blasting set-up that is not much larger than a shoebox that can turn hours of working with historically incorrect sandpaper into an hour or so of letting the historically incorrect electricity do the manual work.
Now, if you would have bothered to consult any history books before flapping your gums, you’d already know that one doesn’t even need electricity to effectively use the historically correct loose abrasive – technically, it doesn’t take all that much money to build a historically correct loose abrasive finishing machine, the kind that were used many centuries before even black powder was invented. While it can be done, using some PVC pipe and an electric motor (just like that one on your milling machine) can replicate a true historically correct finish without putting all the manual labor into it. Oh, and while you’re cleaning your post-longrifle era sandpaper, hydroabrasive finishing also pre-dates the longrifle by many centuries too, there’s even mention of it being utilized in the colonies before the longrifle came into production.
Funny how you ignored my challenge … afraid to give the wrong answers or you just can’t tell difference? Sorry if you’re offended Dan but if you’re going to spout off about “historically correct finishes” then you shouldn’t be advocating the use of non-historically correct methods and materials like you are. No, perhaps the use of modern loose abrasive handling equipment isn’t “historically correct” but neither are electricity or sandpaper. It wouldn't hurt for you to do a little learning about history before attempting to claim what is and is not historically correct.
