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Offline Chowmi

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Hung out to dry!
« on: May 02, 2020, 09:07:19 PM »
Happy Days!!!!


Nearly finished!

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Offline Daryl

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2020, 11:08:18 PM »
Nice |"diggins", Norm.
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Offline FALout

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2020, 12:40:59 AM »
Just don’t let the wind bang it around
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Offline J. Talbert

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2020, 01:11:41 AM »
Looks like it'll be done by Christmas.   ;)

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2020, 02:12:15 AM »
Quote from: J. Talbert on May 03, 2020, 01:11:41 AM
Looks like it'll be done by Christmas.   ;)

Jeff

At my current rate of production, that is indeed a possibility!  Started that thing 4 years ago at WKU.  I did build 3 guns in between...

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Offline Dave B

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2020, 03:03:47 AM »
Hey that looks great. We need you to do a follow up shot with you sitting in overalls in a rocking chair bar foot with your  rifle held betwix your toes against the porch post, a hound dog laying at your side, ala Herschel House. 8) Thats going to be a beauty of a rifle.
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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2020, 03:29:53 AM »
My favorite time of the build!
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Offline Chowmi

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2020, 04:57:57 AM »
Quote from: Dave B on May 03, 2020, 03:03:47 AM
Hey that looks great. We need you to do a follow up shot with you sitting in overalls in a rocking chair bar foot with your  rifle held betwix your toes against the porch post, a hound dog laying at your side, ala Herschel House. 8) Thats going to be a beauty of a rifle.

Will do my best to provide such a picture!  Would a hound cat do?  I got a rifle, a porch, a rocking chair, toes, but no hound dog, or overalls either for that matter.

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2020, 07:09:56 AM »
WOW!  PROGRESS!  Looking good there Norm, now stop killing us with anticipation and get that thing finished already.  ;)

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Offline Chowmi

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2020, 07:54:52 AM »
Quote from: Curtis on May 03, 2020, 07:09:56 AM
WOW!  PROGRESS!  Looking good there Norm, now stop killing us with anticipation and get that thing finished already.  ;)

Curtis

Yup,
finally some progress!  I think she'll be pretty much done on Sunday.  I have some errors to correct in my last coat of finish (long story, typical idiocy on my part). 
I want to make a larger cock bolt for the lock, but I don't have a 6-40 die, and I scrounged around the house for a stray 6-40 bolt with no luck.  I just don't think that a trip to town for a 6-40 screw is essential travel at this point, so it will have to wait.  Same story with the gold touch hole liner.  Don't have a critical tool, so I installed a white lightning liner, with the possibility of doing the gold liner later.
I spent the evening heat coloring the lock bolts, trigger, trigger plate and tang bolt.

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Offline steven baker

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2020, 11:49:46 AM »
That would make a fine post card,keep a watch out for any birds that may perch on your roof  above your stock especially pigeons  ,take care Steven.
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Offline Daryl

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2020, 09:07:53 PM »
That gun has a VERY pleasing shape.
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Offline Chowmi

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2020, 09:24:41 PM »
Quote from: Daryl on May 03, 2020, 09:07:53 PM
That gun has a VERY pleasing shape.

Daryl,
thank you, credit goes to Andreas Albrecht (most likely) for the shape.  She's all put together as of this morning.  I'll post pictures after I fix the shiny spots from the last coat of finish.  I thought I put it on thin.  I was wrong. It puddled in corners.  Grrr..

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2020, 10:40:06 PM »
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Just don’t let the wind bang it around
Or when the oaks are shedding pollen and the cottonwoods have cotton floating around.
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Offline Daryl

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2020, 12:27:11 AM »
When I read your post, Dave, I instantly thought of the cotton-woods around here, with a stock wet with spar varnish sitting outside for 3 days to dry - LOL
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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2020, 09:32:51 PM »
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your cabin looks a lot like mine,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Offline Bigmon

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2020, 10:18:53 PM »
I notice that on this stock, and I see many others on this site, that the inside of the lock and patch box, and I assume barrel channel and under the buutt plate, that you folks do not stain those areas.  Is there a reason?
Do you apply finish in these areas?
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Offline Curtis

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Re: Hung out to dry!
« Reply #17 on: May 07, 2020, 07:34:15 AM »
Quote from: Bigmon on May 06, 2020, 10:18:53 PM
I notice that on this stock, and I see many others on this site, that the inside of the lock and patch box, and I assume barrel channel and under the buutt plate, that you folks do not stain those areas.  Is there a reason?
Do you apply finish in these areas?

That is how most of the originals were done, so when you see a gun finished in such a manner, that is what the builder is emulating.

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