Author Topic: least favorite task (Read 15812 times)

jim m · « **on:** January 23, 2009, 12:22:27 AM »

what's your leas favorite part of a build? I've been cleaning up brass the last two days and I HATE IT! not the brass just the prep part. I seem to loose patience in this area quicker than anything else and this can be a big mistake. sometimes just the smallest detail can stick out like a sore thumb. just ranting, I needed a break

Black Hand · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2009, 12:26:57 AM »

Barrel inletting, hands down.

George F. · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2009, 12:34:25 AM »

I inlett the whole entire butt plate. I takes me quite awhile to get it where I want it, until I notice that the toe of the butt plate is not square with the toe of the stock. Then after bending the butt plate appropriately, it's back to more wood removal with the chisel. This is my least favorite part of the build. ...Geo.
P.S. After my last project I'll have to add staining and finishing. I had such a miserable time with puddling the finish in the carving that I had to strip the stock down to bare wood and start over. My own fault, I was too lazy to do it right, I knew better....Geo.

Benedict · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2009, 12:49:40 AM »

Depending on my mood, any task can be my least favorite.

But on the other hand, depending on my mood, I like them all.

So, I try to only work on a gun when I am in the mood for whatever is at hand. Fortunately, it is a hobby and if I don't want to work on it, I don't.

Bruce

Tommy Bruce · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2009, 12:56:05 AM »

Add another one for barrel inletting.

Ezra · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2009, 01:43:36 AM »

Patchboxes. I really don't lke patchboxes. Inlet pipes aren't anything to write home about either...

Ez

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2009, 02:53:40 AM »

My friends...just think of it all as foreplay. It's all good.

Roger Fisher · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:07:32 AM »

Quote from: D. Taylor Sapergia on January 23, 2009, 02:53:40 AM

My friends...just think of it all as foreplay. It's all good.

I'm sorely tempted; but I better not ask

Ken G · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:01:40 AM »

It's a toss up between drilling a ram rod hole and inletting a buttplate.
I hate removing end grain wood but the more I do the easier they get. Getting a bandsaw really went a long way toward making buttplates tolerable. Who knows they may even get off my **** list.
Ram rod holes and barrel channels aren't really that hard but the potential for disaster is so great I hate doing them. Thank goodness for you guys that I can mail a piece of wood to and get one back with a ram rod hole and barrel channel already done.
ken

Ed Wenger · « **Reply #9 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:02:18 AM »

Good one Taylor! If I had to pick, I'd say finishing trigger guards and polishing locks.

Ed

jim m · « **Reply #10 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:17:01 AM »

Quote from: D. Taylor Sapergia on January 23, 2009, 02:53:40 AM

My friends...just think of it all as foreplay. It's all good.

great response, I like that one

B Shipman · « **Reply #11 on:** January 23, 2009, 07:56:04 AM »

Everyone's different. I actually like filing up triggerguards and making patchboxes.

Hogging off large quantities of wood to get to a rough shape is my least favorite. I know many enjoy this. Final shaping however is my most favorite.

Rich · « **Reply #12 on:** January 23, 2009, 10:18:04 AM »

Sawing out the rough shape from the blank and slabbing off the excess on the forestock (all with a hand saw).

elk killer · « **Reply #13 on:** January 23, 2009, 01:46:05 PM »

i hate barrel underlugs and drilling for their pins,,,

northmn · « **Reply #14 on:** January 23, 2009, 01:50:45 PM »

For me it can vary gun to gun. Sometimes the buttplates almost fit right off the bandsaw other times they can be a SOB. Patchboxes to me are an adornment that I never use and as such I lose patience with them. Really I think I get most bored after everything is inletted to the square blank and I have to start rasping and getting down to the final shaping and finishing. Final finishing and getting it ready for the stain and finish is really my big downfall in building. As others stated it is a hobby so that I can walk away and take breaks from a task. I often find that if I start a buttplate and it gets a little tedious to match up because of a couple of gaps that putting in the thimbles in between helps and then coming back to it from time to time.

DP

Glenn Hurley Jr. · « **Reply #15 on:** January 23, 2009, 03:02:50 PM »

Jim M,
I'm with you on the brass . Give me wood work any day!!

flehto · « **Reply #16 on:** January 23, 2009, 03:16:38 PM »

The worst part of gun building for me was the many times I was on my hands and knees trying to find a small part lost in all the sawdust, chips and wrong places. For a long time my retrieval rate was dismal but then after employing the "eagle eyed" missus , fewer parts have to be remade and she's happy as a lark because her ears are no longer subjected to loud, vulgar {her rating} words and phrases. .....Fred

Eric Laird · « **Reply #17 on:** January 23, 2009, 03:18:48 PM »

Inletting entry pipes and buttplates!
Eric

Michael · « **Reply #18 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:00:19 PM »

Don't think I have a' least favorite' task to me inletting the ramrod pipes is boooorrrrring.

Michael

deano · « **Reply #19 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:28:38 PM »

Bending and inletting the breech plug tang, I am never satisfied with the results.

Ken

Tim Crosby · « **Reply #20 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:49:54 PM »

Making those !@#$% entry thimbles.

Tim C.

PS: If I could keep Mr. Murphy at bay that would make some operations more pleasent.

lew wetzel · « **Reply #21 on:** January 23, 2009, 06:17:01 PM »

i hate to file and polish anything.....also certain inletting jobs,but in all depends on my mood and if i feel like doing something on a certain day or moving to something different and putting it off.there is nothing that i really dislike about rifle building...

ol vern · « **Reply #22 on:** January 23, 2009, 08:37:53 PM »

Cleaning & fileing brass. hate it so bad I only make iorn mounted guns.

Would rather spend two days making a iorn butt plate than two minutes screwing with
a brass one

b bogart · « **Reply #23 on:** January 23, 2009, 11:34:05 PM »

I'll second Mr Crosby's opinion!
Bruce

D. Bowman · « **Reply #24 on:** January 24, 2009, 12:23:04 AM »

Making and fitting nose caps Hate it !!!!!

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Author Topic: least favorite task (Read 15812 times)

jim m

Black Hand

George F.

jim m

northmn

Michael

lew wetzel

ol vern

D. Bowman