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Rick,
I'm sure they're good. I bought an almost full set of the palm handled ones from Woodcraft, one at a time, a couple of years ago. Best carving investment I've ever made.
Dick
I go every year. That top picture is the Jessup river looking downstream towards Speculator. Middle picture is West Canada Creek looking north, taken from the Noblesboro bridge on Route 8. Don't recognize the bottom picture. I haven't shot a deer in quite a few years but other than not...
Try McMaster Carr. Look in the Raw Materials section, bottom right of the page. No order is too small and they ship fast. You can spend days browsing their web site.
Dick,
Beautiful work Birddog. Everything you say regarding Bronze and Brass is correct. Bronze is a little harder to file and the investment cast stuff is much easier to clean up than sand cast Brass. The one thing I do like about Brass (I try to use sand cast always, but that's 'cause I'm cheap)...
I've got a lock from back in the days when Bud Siler was still making them and always thought it was a fantastic lock. Last year I bought a Chambers Round-Faced English lock and I'm absolutely astonished by the difference. I think this thing could light off a pan of powder under water! I've...
So did you ever go back to the push graver? I've never mastered it. I'm pretty good with a chasing hammer but that push work just baffles me. I'm definitely at that point where the design part has become the hard part. Looks like you've done a real fine job of figuring that out, congrats.
Dick
My uncle cut a Maple up in the Adirondacks three years ago clearing a lot for a camp. The tree lay mostly off the ground for the better part of two years before anyone bothered cutting any of it up. When we finally started blocking the top up and splitting it, we found it was curly so I put a...
Set triggers were around all during the period. They'd be correct on a higher end gun. But they probably were never all that common except on target rifles. If you're building a new rifle it's easy to set up a single trigger for a light pull by locating the pivot point correctly. It's...
Thank you grey whiskers. I used dark brown RIT dye for the tip and golden yellow with a small bit of sunshine orange for the body. I'm very happy with the results. Wish I could learn to draw though, I'm not satisfied with the scrimshaw. I have the same problem with my rifle carvings.
Dick
It's already plugged with a simple pine plug.
Yea, that's the bow of my canoe. I like working with my hands after spending all day in front a computer. Here's a few more of my projects.
http://mysite.verizon.net/rmillet/index.html
Dick
Are you buying semi-finished horns, i.e., with the butt plug already in place or doing all of the work yourself. If there's no butt plug in place you can get a pretty good idea of how much you've got to work with just by looking down the horn before you plug it. It's a little trickier if it's...
Guess I'm in the minority here, I remove my barrels every time I clean the gun. I've got 2 rifles that are over 20 years old and haven't worn out a pin hole yet. I slightly chamfer the ends of the pins and always take them out the way I put them in when I built the guns (driven in from the...