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Offline Ky-Flinter

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Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« on: February 15, 2010, 05:11:24 PM »
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2010, 06:00:32 PM »
No big deal man, it's just patches glued in. Lots of time and beer is all. ;D I got that stock out of a sawmills slab pile 20 years ago when I was picking up a truck load of slabs for fire wood.. It was probably  24" wide and 12' long and 3" thick. It probably weighed hundreds of pounds.  It had termite damage through out, but I probably got 5 full stocks out of it with no termite damage and this little short stock. There was only one termite hole in the end grain of the buttstock so I figured "what the $#*!" and made this gun out of it. As you can see I ran into a little more than one termite hole.....
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2010, 07:08:53 PM »
That trick would make a great tutorial.

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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2010, 07:24:31 PM »
I don't get you, Mike. So many of your guns you work so hard to put worm holes IN, and this one, when they are already there, you get rid of them.

Puzzled in NY.

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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2010, 08:01:25 PM »
Dear Puzzled in NY,
 Worm holes are OK, a termite colony is NOT OK! ;)
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2010, 08:04:42 PM »
too funny.
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2010, 09:37:13 PM »
REAL nice on the grain match,  helps a lot to have a whole plank of scraps to find the right piece I'd bet. one good argument against pre-carved stocks
I had to look hard with a fair amount of imagination to find the patches.  did you use irregular shaped pieces?  what adhesive did you use?
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2010, 09:39:53 PM »
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did you use irregular shaped pieces?
Beats me, couple years ago now.
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what adhesive did you use?
Probably some cheapo two part epoxy I had laying around.
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2010, 11:13:13 PM »
This might be a good example of a filler made of stained wood dust mixed with epoxy.  ;D
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2010, 11:24:19 PM »
Quote from: J.D. on February 16, 2010, 11:13:13 PM
This might be a good example of a filler made of stained wood dust mixed with epoxy.  ;D
Tried it before, sticks out like a sore thumb. ;)
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2010, 05:56:01 PM »
I have to do something similar for a ramrod runout.  Like it better than a plate.  What brand of beer works best???  How much ???

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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2010, 08:28:01 PM »
Quote from: northmn on February 19, 2010, 05:56:01 PM
I have to do something similar for a ramrod runout.  Like it better than a plate.  What brand of beer works best???  How much ???

DP
Any old timey beer works well. I like brands my grand father used to drink. You know you have had enough when the repair seems like it will be easy. ;)
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Re: Mike Brooks: C'mon, tell us how ya did it!
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2010, 01:35:11 AM »
Termites in Iowa? Tell me you went way way south to pick up that firewood! Nice work of course!
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