I too was surprised, upon receiving the same TG from Goehring, that it was kinda "flimsy" and I posted my critical thoughts to the membership and they assured me that once inletted and attached, it would be very stable and not to worry. They were right! I did talk w/ Reaves about reproducing patterns of TGs and BPs from "original" parts which were already of finished size and of which metal shrinkage and cleanup could reduce the thicknesses still further. but because of his fine grain sand casting, the surfaces were scraped and a minimum of stock was removed. He said that he hadn't encountered any problems w/ builders using his parts. The other thing that amazed me and was to some degree enlightening, was the small overall size of the parts which right off told me that these Bucks County LRs were smaller in all aspects than what I had imagined. My next Bucks County will only use a "B" weight swamped bbl and the stock will be further "slimmed" from that of my previous Buck Countys. We in the hinterland in many cases, are not privy to viewing "originals" and the photos in the RCA volumes, although excellent, don't visually relate the character of these "originals", although dimensions are given. Good luck on your Bucks County LR....Fred
