Author Topic: Eat your hearts out! Pear Woodsrunner Finally finished!  (Read 4931 times)

Offline Splitear

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Finally finished!
« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2023, 08:06:28 PM »
That is a stunning rifle!

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Finally finished!
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2023, 08:18:43 PM »
Shouldn't you have done 2 so you would have a "Matching pair/pear".

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Finally finished!
« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2023, 08:23:25 PM »
Very nicely done. That detail work really sets it off.
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Re: Eat your hearts out! Finally finished!
« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2023, 08:43:16 PM »
You did a great job on the carving Andy.  I know the carvings on the cheek piece appear to be simple, but that makes them more difficult.
The curl in the wood makes it special. Hope I get to see it.
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Re: Eat your hearts out! Finally finished!
« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2023, 08:44:52 PM »
Beautiful. The muzzle looks great.

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Finally finished!
« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2023, 09:41:05 PM »
Boy that pear makes for a pretty/unique stock. I really like that.
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Re: Eat your hearts out! Finally finished!
« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2023, 09:43:42 PM »
Beautiful wood.  I've appearently never seen a rifle stocked in pear.  The wood looks much nicer than I would have thought.
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Re: Eat your hearts out! Finally finished!
« Reply #32 on: May 23, 2023, 09:51:38 PM »
Very nice!! Wood looks great on that rifle!

Offline Martin S.

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Pear Woodsrunner Finally finished!
« Reply #33 on: May 24, 2023, 03:13:12 AM »
If you are ever in Paris, tour the Invalides, which is the French war museum at the tomb of Napoleon.

Lots of history, and lots of the early wheel locks and match locks and flintlocks are made from pear.

They didn't stain them, but left them light.  Of course, these were "show" guns.  I doubt if most of them had been fired.

Carving and engraving that would boggle your mind.

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Pear Woodsrunner Finally finished!
« Reply #34 on: May 24, 2023, 05:30:50 AM »
Nicely done, Dane!   Best,

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Pear Woodsrunner Finally finished!
« Reply #35 on: May 24, 2023, 06:51:16 PM »
Does pear darken with age like cherry does? curious. Ken
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Offline Martin S.

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Pear Woodsrunner Finally finished!
« Reply #36 on: May 24, 2023, 08:00:08 PM »
Not the ones I saw in the museum, and they were 300-400 years old.

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Pear Woodsrunner Finally finished!
« Reply #37 on: May 26, 2023, 11:21:21 PM »
Ken, as far as I know…. No.
I guess only time will tell.
In process, there was no real change between sanding, scraping, so we hope it will stay as is.
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Re: Eat your hearts out! Pear Woodsrunner Finally finished!
« Reply #38 on: May 27, 2023, 05:55:10 PM »
Just lovely! You did a wonderful job on the carving and kept it to minimum which just right for the lines of this rifle. I want one!
Great job!

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Re: Eat your hearts out! Pear Woodsrunner Finally finished!
« Reply #39 on: May 31, 2023, 09:22:08 PM »
Cool muzzle treatment.  Don Getz would have liked that one, I am sure.
Daryl

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