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Offline Ky-Flinter

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CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« on: October 14, 2011, 06:43:30 AM »
This was fun.....



























-Ron
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2011, 07:15:01 AM »
Nice work. Bob
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2011, 07:21:51 AM »
What a great little project Ron.  I like what you have done with it.  I have converted about 3 CVA Kentucky rifles into kids guns.  I shorten up the barrel, reduce the pull and remove the brass plate between the two stock sections and glue them up wood to wood.  Remove the excess wood and refinish.  I make my conversions into trade guns.
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2011, 07:42:10 AM »
That's a pretty nice job, Ron.   Who says a silk purse can't be made out of a sow's ear? 
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2011, 08:21:22 AM »
that makes a mediocre gun pretty nice. good work.     mark
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2011, 02:43:27 PM »
WOW ... Nice work Ron that really turned out good.  I bet it was a lot of fun too.   ;D
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2011, 03:30:15 PM »
Nice job, did you build the entire butt stock or modify the original?
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2011, 05:05:18 PM »
   Nice work, a good experience and confidence builder, but as they used to say about customizing a Rambler sdn....you still have a Rambler.   
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2011, 05:09:19 PM »
WOW ! What a fantastic face lift. This transformation supports "from a sours ear to a silk purse" or something like that. Great work. Thanks for sharing. AJ

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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2011, 06:12:36 PM »
KY-Flinter
What a nice job you have done!
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2011, 07:10:09 PM »
Quote from: Micah on October 14, 2011, 03:30:15 PM
Nice job, did you build the entire butt stock or modify the original?

Modified the original.  The cheek piece is a graft from a piece of an old broken birch chair that ALR member BGF gave me.

Thanks for all the compliments.  It was a lot of fun and a learning experience.  My first patchbox from scratch, first one piece nose cap, fitted a bushing on the tumbler and slicked up the lock, made a new trigger and pinned it higher.  I'm giving it to my nephew this afternoon at deer camp.  Tomorrow is the opening of early ML deer season.

-Ron
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2011, 08:19:35 PM »
KY-Flinter,Want to be my uncle LOL! What a great gift,he will be thrilled,plus you have probably added another member to the muzzleloading comunity.Great job!
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2011, 08:58:28 PM »
Ron,
Great work -- the fore end modifications make an especially big difference, but your carving is very nice all over.  I bet that trigger is sweet.  All good work, and if that's your first patchbox, I bet it won't be the last!  I see the wood of cheekpiece blends in nicely after stain, hope it didn't cause too much trouble matching.  Congratulations to your nephew.

PS. We'll have to have a Kentucky rifle show sometime:). 
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2011, 09:29:46 PM »
HOLY MACKEREL!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2011, 09:52:11 PM »
Nice job!
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2011, 10:06:18 PM »
Great job, Ron. Be sure and post a picture of his deer. Good work!!!
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2011, 12:35:41 AM »
Great job! A rifle to be proud of for certain!
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2011, 03:07:10 AM »
Great job! I have two of those at the house that I was considering practicing on. Now that I've seen yours I'm convinced that I should.
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #18 on: October 15, 2011, 03:32:54 AM »
 i like your approach, great job, happy to see the completion, i am waiting for a trade,  i intend to do the same thing to it, it will give it a second life, they have this chunky look to them, and with just a little personnel touch to them a completely new gun
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2011, 05:48:53 AM »
'62 Plymouth Valiant with crome wheels and a candy apple red metalic paint job and glass packs.  Just kidding.  I have been accused of never practicing before taking on a big carving project on a gonne I built.  But I would call this PRACTICING WITH A VENGENCE. 
But then it is better to have practiced than to ruin an expensive gonne. 
Good work, enjoy the look on your nephew's face, for he will surely appreciate it.
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #20 on: October 15, 2011, 03:00:28 PM »
ok now I have to bar my son from this site he has that style (befor pic ) and now wants me to make it look like the after pics.now thats 3 rifle in the works and I'm still learning to inlaye a barrle. aint it great when your kids still think you can do anything.
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #21 on: October 15, 2011, 04:16:57 PM »
Quote from: ottawa on October 15, 2011, 03:00:28 PM
ok now I have to bar my son from this site he has that style (befor pic ) and now wants me to make it look like the after pics.now thats 3 rifle in the works and I'm still learning to inlaye a barrle. aint it great when your kids still think you can do anything.

ROFLMAO ...   ;D
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2011, 08:00:48 PM »
 ;D good one Glen and Ottawa.
 
 An incredible job done on that clunker, however it's still a CVA 'rambler' with a lot of hours 'work' done to it. As an 'exercise to see if it could be done, or if done as a 'bet' - good work!

 However - if done to 'fix' the problems of a poorly designed, cheap production rifle I honestly feel it's wasted time and effort with excellent work that could have been spent on a real Penn. rifle.
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Re: CVA Kentucky - Before and After
« Reply #23 on: October 15, 2011, 08:39:31 PM »
  Daryl, if you factor in the knowledge and skill increase attained I  think it was well worth the effort. And the improvement to the rifle's aesthetics is amazing!
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« Reply #24 on: October 15, 2011, 08:51:15 PM »
Dan'l - That's much what I said.
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