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Offline Dennis Glazener

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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #25 on: January 24, 2009, 02:36:21 AM »
I know that I am weird but I enjoy fitting the buttplates to the wood. I don't like to drill the screw holes. I have problems centering the holes and squaring the screw heads up with the countersinks and despise to do them.
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Offline Steve Bookout

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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #26 on: January 24, 2009, 03:16:45 AM »
Just finished rifle #372 today.  8)  I also like Guinness big time, but I also like making curls as the stick is shaped down with draw knives and spoke shaves.  I also like getting so far into the job that the rifle begins to talk to me while I'm working on it even and tells me it's name.  The best part is handing the finished piece to the new owner and having him or her tell you that the rifle is the prettiest looking, the best fitting, or the straightest shooting thing they ever owned.  Cheers, Bookie
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Offline Dennis Glazener

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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #27 on: January 24, 2009, 03:22:10 AM »
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I also like getting so far into the job that the rifle begins to talk to me while I'm working on it even and tells me it's name.
Bookie,
I have enough trouble parting with a rifle without getting personal with it. If it started to talk to me I doubt I would ever get rid of it! ;D
Dennis
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #28 on: January 24, 2009, 03:25:26 AM »
Dennis, at least you're gentleman enough not to call me crazy...like that pesky Ken Guy!  Cheers, Bookie
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Offline Jerry V Lape

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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #29 on: January 24, 2009, 03:39:53 AM »
Considering how much of it I do in completing a rifle my favorite part must be procrastinating!
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Offline Roger Fisher

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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #30 on: January 24, 2009, 03:42:58 AM »
In my case it is the final finishing the stock then those many rubbings with ol tyme linseed oil, then I really enjoy sighting them in (in particular when she behaves the way I want) and finally if I manage to win a shootin match with the new gal! ;D
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #31 on: January 24, 2009, 04:00:21 AM »
I can't think of anything that I don't like about building rifles, but mostly I like talking about building rifles.
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #32 on: January 24, 2009, 04:20:56 AM »
Quote from: Bookie on January 24, 2009, 03:16:45 AM
Just finished rifle #372 today.  8)  I also like Guinness big time, but I also like making curls as the stick is shaped down with draw knives and spoke shaves.  I also like getting so far into the job that the rifle begins to talk to me while I'm working on it even and tells me it's name.  The best part is handing the finished piece to the new owner and having him or her tell you that the rifle is the prettiest looking, the best fitting, or the straightest shooting thing they ever owned.  Cheers, Bookie
bookie, medication is available for that.              ;)
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #33 on: January 24, 2009, 06:36:00 PM »
Quote from: Bookie on January 24, 2009, 03:16:45 AM
  I also like Guinness big time,  Cheers, Bookie
So do I and after a few of those everything in the shop is talking to me, I just tell the dog to turnout the lights when their thru and head up.

Tim C.
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Offline LynnC

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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #34 on: January 24, 2009, 07:56:32 PM »
Favorite Part?

After all the inletting and mechanicals are done, that transformation with drawknife, rasps & files, from a square blank to an in the round stock.  When it begins to take shape...............................Lynn
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #35 on: January 24, 2009, 08:42:15 PM »
Quote from: Bookie on January 24, 2009, 03:25:26 AM
Dennis, at least you're gentleman enough not to call me crazy...like that pesky Ken Guy!  Cheers, Bookie


Everyone is crazy to some extent, some people are just crazier than others. Most folks posting on this forum appear pretty normal to me.  ;)
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Offline Ian Pratt

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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2009, 10:05:28 PM »
My favorite parts are the black snot you get for a couple days after forging and the long splinters that go under your thumb nail up to your elbow
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2009, 12:41:35 AM »
Being very much a rookie (I'm working on my very fist kit) I have to say my favorite thing is any thing I do correctly. Oh and the whiskey. Leon
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Offline Osprey

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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #38 on: January 25, 2009, 05:18:43 PM »
My favorite part of the building is cutting the moldings on the cheek, just makes it jump from a hunk of wood into a rifle and lets me know I've turned the corner on that build - more is done than there is to go.  Watching the first deer jump as the roundball smacks it is pretty dang good too.   ;D

Having just moved and turned my old hunting shack into my workshop I'm also enjoying winter days, fire crackling in the woodstove, dog curled up on the floor and geese honking overhead all day while working on a gun.  Breaking for lunch to walk down to the dock and pick up some oysters to eat ain't bad either...
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #39 on: January 25, 2009, 05:31:26 PM »
Carving,......I'm learning!  and staining, sealing and finishing!!
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #40 on: January 25, 2009, 08:57:49 PM »
Easily, stock shaping.  Shaping the wrist, the comb, sculpting around the lock panels, etc.  All except for cutting out underneath the cheekpiece.  That's just a pain.
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #41 on: January 26, 2009, 06:20:19 PM »
Seeing how I am still working on my first rifle, I guess it is somewhat early for me to answer.  I'm in the process of shaping the stock now and so far I'm enjoying it the most.  I guess because now she's starting to look like a rifle.  I think maybe I will enjoy the final finishing as well, but can't say since I'm not there yet. ;)
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Re: Most favorite!
« Reply #42 on: January 26, 2009, 08:19:41 PM »
As a Retired Geezer, I can now appreciate what the late William Buchele told me when he was in his 70’s, and I my 30's.

He said that when he watched television his (whatever) hurt, something was wrong down here, this ached, &c. 
But when he was carving on a rifle he didn’t notice any of these things.

Amen.
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