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Offline Bigmon

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Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« on: March 29, 2020, 10:51:18 PM »
Ready to start shaping my first from a plank.  I recall there being some good info on Mike's tutorial, but I can't fine it.  How do I access it?
Thanks
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Offline jrb

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Re: Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2020, 10:58:33 PM »
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Offline Bigmon

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Re: Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2020, 01:10:39 AM »
Thanks for that.  This is gonna be a big challenge for me.  I done quite a few from pre-forms from one stage of another, but never a butt stock.  AGGGH!!
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Offline heinz

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Re: Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2020, 01:27:04 AM »
Just relax.   The Brooks tutorial is excellent. If you get confused just ask.  All that extra wood is your friend.  I am assuming you have had the barrel inlet?
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Offline Bill Raby

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Re: Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2020, 03:12:06 AM »
Building from a blank is easier than from a pre-carve. It only seems harder.
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2020, 04:34:08 PM »
If anybody would like to take a class and build from a blank  just like in  my tutorial I'd be glad to teach it. I think we could get a gun together in five days starting with the barrel and RR hole already in. I can teach it at friendship educational center.
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Offline Bigmon

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Re: Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2020, 05:05:57 PM »
Mike,  I would do that class in a heartbeat, but we are just so far away from each other.  I really wish I could

Here is where I'm at.  Sprnt the afternoon yesterday sharpening up planes and chisels, etc.
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2020, 05:41:06 PM »
Follow my tutorial and you'll be fine.
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Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?

Offline Curtis

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Re: Mike Brooks Tutorial?
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2020, 09:18:07 AM »
Mikes tutorial helped me a great deal when I started building - an a good deal of years after that!

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