Operation "Artificial Curl" has begun!!

[LehighBrad]

Artificially striped, stained completely and 1 coat of Chambers oil on it. Does it resemble natural curl? Up close...I'd say not really, but a few feet away and depending on how bad your peepers are, I think it could pass for a curly girly.

 



Anudder view.

[WadePatton]

Redding?  the vice?  that's seems like one of "their" colors.

Hey, anything looks better than straight-grain!  And that looks dandy. And quick.  reckon it'll change your POI?

[LehighBrad]

Wade, the vise doesn't have any identification on it anywhere. All I know is it's called a Carvers/Gunmakers vise and it can be bought at Woodcraft stores nationwide....I think. POI??? Point Of Interest?? That color is callin' ya ain't it?

[Jim Kibler]

Yeah, why the cryptic hard to read writing style

[LehighBrad]

Jim...ya think he means Point Of Impact??? (POI) That's my final guess.

[WadePatton]

facetiousness foiled.

'twas a play on the idea of changing the stock...which could change the Point at which the prOjectile Impacts the target yo.

[mjm46@bellsouth.net]

I think it's looking great for simulated curl. The pistols look great. Oh, by the way I have that same vise, and it is green, but a much, much less vivid green. I think your's might have gone bad.

[WadePatton]

and you certainly don't want it looking "too good". 

the last time i went to a gun show (working a table) i saw a faked figure gunstock and knew it was from across the way...1,000-dollar "wood" on a 200-dollar gun is an easy giveaway.

heck, iirc, it was on laminated wood to boot!

the horror

[LehighBrad]

Artificial curl.....done. Rifle re-assembled and ready to put .40 caliber holes in the heads of unsuspecting tree rats!

[LynnC]

Man, That Ain't Bad At All!

Lookin Good.............Lynn

[PPatch]

By George you did it Brad! I have to admit being sceptical when you began, but you pulled it off. Congrats! Now, I believe that vice could use a good striping job...  I think dayglo pink stripes over that green would look faboulus

dp

[RHoyle]

Lookin good.  I enjoyed also seeing the pics throughout the process.

[gusd]

Looks Great!!
Gus

[Kermit]

The idea was to get the skwerrls to come in for a closer look, right? I think you did it.

[WadePatton]

Looks really good in pictures, but


you need to send it to my house so i can give a the final inspection (and i'll mail it right back in a minute or two).

 keep the vise.

[LehighBrad]

No need to send it to ya Wade.....here's photographic proof she's a bushytail's worst nightmare. First two shots fired...one in the cranium....the next, center mass. I call this my "Bin Laden Squirrel".

[erastus]

Leave it to a lefty to come up with that idea.
Looks good.  I have that vise too. Woodcarvers vise from Woodcraft. Easy on the wood, and the maple jaws won't hurt your tools.

[WadePatton]

that squirrel needs stripes!

fine bidness!  carry on.