barrel channels in antique rifle

[keweenaw]

When you're putting in a U shaped channel you aren't really making it round in the bottom.  The plane or gouges you use are narrower than the width of the channel.  As I said in an earlier posting, it's not hard to do it such that in the center of the flats the wood is off the metal by less than .010".  I suspect  that in some hand inlet octagon channels there are places where the wood is off the metal that much.

Tom

[Curtis]

Jack Brooks has a traditional philosophy on the barrel channel, even had a tutorial on his website on how he does it, with references to some originals.  Follow the link and scroll down the page to "In-letting a Swamped Barrel "
http://www.jsbrookslongrifles.com/theclassroom.htm

[daveg]

Don....I find the history of your relations involved in wagon striping back in the good old days interesting to say the least.  There was some beautiful work done by the old masters of the craft.  I have done a good many restored fire trucks with gold leaf.....hard to duplicate the scrolls and acanthus leaf designs that are still outstanding today and a standard to emulate.

Dave Gross
Way down east in Maine

[Stophel]

In the next few days, I'll try to get some good detail photos of the inletting and surfaces of some of the guns of my meager collection. 

I have some photos here on my album already, but they were taken with an inferior camera, and I need to make up some new ones.

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www.photobucket.com/albums/v326/Fatdutchman/?start=48