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    whiskering

    I have starting the whiskering stage on my stock. I started out using 220 against the whiskers and after four attempts I tried 400 grit. Still raising whiskers. how many times does it usually take. By the way for a plain stock the curl is impressive when its wet. odis
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    My Build so far

    I figure I've reached the half way point with my TOW Bivins kit. I've learned alot, by far the most important thing I've learned is that I should have gone to dental school back in the 70's. I seem to have a natural talent for mixing up glue and shavings and then filling in cavities with it. I...
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    dovetail

    One of the other posters scared the bejeezes out me the other day with his post on cutting through his barrel filing in a dovetail. I haven't mounted the two forward ramrod pipes yet but I'm assuming that the middle one will put my lug for the sling swivel in the thinnest portion of my Rice...
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    progress so far

    I've been really plugging along the last few days. I have the barrel pinned, the tang bolt drilled and tapped, the entry pipe inletted and the butt plate fitted. My Bivins kit comes with a small toe plate and I'm having trouble sinking it into the stock my chisels are sharp but all I'm doing is...
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    suggestions

    Am about to start inletting lugs on my Bivins project. Was wondering about the size of the mortises? Should they be slightly longer for possible movement of the wood? Should the mortises be shallow enough as to not cut threw the web to the ramrod channel? If so the lugs for the barrel will have...
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    satisfaction

    Just finished up three satisfying days on my Bivins Lancaster project. I had a near catastrophy about a month ago inletting the breech and tang, fixed that with accruglass, now my barrel and tang fit perfectly ( well as perfect as a wood butcher like me can make it) today I cut in the mortise...
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    A Question

    Hi all, just started my TOTW Bivins kit and after six hours of color transfer and scraping have the barrel and lock fully inlet. I never touched the bed of the barrel mortise or the sides of the lock mortise but the barrel mortise is off kilter and the lock has alot of unsightly gaps. I imagine...
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    I did it

    Just returned from TOW with a Bivins Lancaster kit. I got the Rice C swamp in 58 cal. a Chambers deluxe siler and iron furniture. The stock is not quite as its shown on the internet site in that the plug and tang are not inleted. I've got a thousand questions to ask but I'll wait till I start in...
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    first real build

    After a couple months of reading as many posts as I could I've dug out the biscuit joiner glue 2/4s and built a work bench today. Tomorrow I'll make the stock vice (thanks Zonie) mount the other vices and call it a day. Monday its off to TOW to pick up the kit. I'm getting the Bivins lancaster...
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    Tang bolts

    For the last month now I have been reading books watching Turpins video and researching a rifle project. To alot of you guys who are genuine builders and gunsmiths this might seem like a stupid question but does the tang bolt really need to run right through the wrist to the trigger plate for...
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    gun kit

    Have any of you builders out there had any experiance with the TOW lehman flint lock kit? Their site lists it as one of their easiast kits. My only experiance so far is a GPR kit. I would like to build a flint in either a big bore or a small caliber full stock. Would like to know what makes the...
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