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Offline yip

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Shuler patch box
« on: March 28, 2022, 07:40:31 PM »
  trying to copy a patch box by Shuler and have trouble counting the hinges on the lid itself. copying it from RIFLES OF COLONIAL AMERICA
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Offline VP

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Re: Shuler patch box
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2022, 02:43:05 AM »
Look this one over. It's a photo from the Kentucky Rifle Foundation's CD on Bucks County Rifles.

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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Shuler patch box
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2022, 03:36:08 AM »
I believe that photo has a copyright.
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Offline Tom Currie

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Re: Shuler patch box
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2022, 02:49:52 PM »
Looks like 6 and 1/2 to me. Short one towards the finial end.
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Offline Elnathan

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Re: Shuler patch box
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2022, 02:56:13 PM »
Quote from: Tom Currie on March 29, 2022, 02:49:52 PM
Looks like 6 and 1/2 to me. Short one towards the finial end.

The second-to-last on the right is also a bit shorter than the rest, as is the 4th from right, I think. Looks like Shuler just eyeballed it....
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Offline flehto

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Re: Shuler patch box
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2022, 03:34:48 PM »
Hi Terry.....never counted the hinges....was more concerned w/ the length of the Pboxes seeing the LOPs {13-3/4"} on my BCs were longer than the originals but  my Pboxes still had to look like their  locations were similar to the originals. Shown below  are 2  of my Pboxes  which fit the buttstock nicely....Fred



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Offline yip

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Re: Shuler patch box
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2022, 05:14:53 PM »
  i count 4 on the lid.     thanks Fred
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Re: Shuler patch box
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2022, 06:58:30 PM »
Not a Shuler, but made by George Weiker, so maybe, maybe not the same.
This hinge has 7 segments, and counting from the butt plate, the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th hinge segments are on the cover. The end segments are a bit shorter than the others.
Click the picture and it should enlarge.


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