Re: Characteristics of the upper E. TN style rifle

[heinz]

Guy, I have a set of calipers, and I believe you can write. We could start next year.

[Ken G]

Count me in.  I already have a pad of paper ready to go.  You call them measurments out and I'll write them down.  
Ken

[G-Man]

We should plan on 2 days at the show then.    I need about 4 hours just to soak in Wayne's displays right there where you first walk into the room, much less everything else. 

Maybe Wayne Elliot or Tom Patton will see this and let us know their thoughts about how many of the East TN guns they feel were built swamped, vs. tapered, vs. straight.  I would bet those gentlemen have handled hundreds of them.

Guy

[heinz]

Guy and Ken, Awesome.  With two volunteers like this we should do two days at the show.

[Dphariss]

Ken, thanks for the tutorial. Great photographs! Do you think it is possible to duplicate that deep, nearly black finish on the East Tennessee rifle with the "banana" patch box?
                                                  Dan 
 

I would try lamb black and real boiled linseed oil for a beginning. Grumbacher makes a lamp black oil color.

Dan

[Steve Bookout]

Ken, that rifle of Grandpa's that I'm rebuilding has a slightly tapered barrel.  Cheers, Bookie

[Bill of the 45th]

OK Heinz, and Guy, I'll bring the tape measure for barrel length, Ought to get maybe two or three hundred sets of stats.  Maybe we should do wood types also?

Bill