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Offline rick landes

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Just finished an Early Lancaster
« on: May 14, 2024, 02:05:35 AM »
Just finished this today. I have posted several pictures; some outside in sunlight some under artificial light.

































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Offline penobscot

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Re: Just finished an Early Lancaster
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2024, 02:57:44 AM »
that's a great job, just wonderful, love the patch box, a lot of work on the inletting.

Offline Tenmile

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Re: Just finished an Early Lancaster
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2024, 05:17:47 PM »
Beautiful work. Nice job on the patch box. Beautiful wood and finish.
Lynn

Offline Bigmon

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Re: Just finished an Early Lancaster
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2024, 05:56:20 PM »
Great job.  I like that color, what is it??

Offline Tony N

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Re: Just finished an Early Lancaster
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2024, 06:38:08 PM »
Very nice, really like the color!

Offline Daryl

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Re: Just finished an Early Lancaster
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2024, 06:54:29 PM »
Initially, as in yesterday, I was thinking I prefer a darker stock, but now I'm thinking that honey colour is quite striking.
Good job overall.
Daryl

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Offline rick landes

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Re: Just finished an Early Lancaster
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2024, 12:34:15 AM »
The stain is LMF “Lancaster Maple” I tested ratios of stain to thinner on a curly maple block. I started at 10 thinner to one drop stain. IK pretty tight fisted on the stain but I wanted to see the speed of the darkening. So 10-1, 10-2, etc. Each time as dabbed onto a 1x2 inch area of my test block. (I pre-drew the test areas with a pencil and square.) At 10-4 it was looking good at 10-5 or a 50% cut I was where I wanted to be.
I hope that helps. I do think I would recommend a test EVERY TIME as we know wood hardness moisture etc are all variables.

BTW this is advertised as the correct color for rifles out of the Lancaster area. Couldn’t prove by me but I like the idea!

Thank you for the feedback.

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Re: Just finished an Early Lancaster
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2024, 09:50:30 PM »
GREAT JOB--WOW