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    gun oil v. olive oil

    For patches I use olive oil, crisco, bore butter, or just spit. Of the four I prefer olive oil or crisco. However, when it comes to combating rust I use plain ol' Johnson's paste wax. I have never found any type of oil that comes anywhere close to it. May not be traditional but I'm interested in...
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    how to restore dry leather.

    Most of you will think I'm nuts but this is what I used for many years on really dried out, heat hardened leather. I spent a lot of years making my living as a welder and welding is rough on leather protective equipment and gloves especially. The heat just accelerates the drying and aging...
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    Aging horn and antler turnings

    I vote for the Fiebing's oil dyes. I've had good luck with them on several antler handles.
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    CVA Mountain Pistol kits

    Heat it and let it cool or just quench it. It's soft either way. Do not bend brass when it's red hot as it will almost always break. Brass is an entirely different breed of cat from steel when it comes to heat. Brass cannot be heat treated like steel and becomes hot short when heated to red heat...
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    1851/1860 Slim Jim Rig

    That is very nice work. I hardly ever make anything anymore. I always used Fiebing's oil based dye when I was active. By the way, it is also excellent for wood. I did have a S&W M&P .40 follow me home recently and I rounded up a piece of leather from S&D Trading for a holster but that is for...
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    anti-seize lubes

    I spent some time working in a gas plant several years ago and we never assembled any thing without a product named "Neverseize" smeared on everything that had a thread. Lots of corrosive stuff in that place and nothing ever refused to release that had that on it. Fast forward to today and...
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    New Patch/Skinning Knife

    That's just beautiful.
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    New knife

    That's nice.
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    How To Age Metals

    Oxpho Blue will add some age to it and is easy to do.
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    Pietta parts

    Hello. Been a while since I visited but I'm still interested in charcoal burners. I've just been busy with vacation and then getting the wife a new pacemaker. I know that there has been a post sometime ago about where to get a screw set and Treso nipples for the Pietta 1860 Army but I can't...
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    how out of round can a round ball be

    Since how round a ball is depends on how round the chamber you load it in it would really have to lopsided to affect your accuracy since only the front and back would of the ball wouldn't be changed. Does that make sense? Swaged round on the sides that encounter the cylinder walls and still out...
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    New Ball Grip Knife by LRB

    I saw this on the other forum. It looks just as good here as it did there.
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    Dagger

    Nicely done.
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    Big Knife

    Nice. All three of them.
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    GPR kit stock help

    I've put stripes on several plain maple stocks with an acetylene torch using a 000 welding tip. It give a very narrow flame pattern, tiny when compared to what you get with a propane torch. You need a steady hand and NEVER stop moving the flame. At 5000 degrees you'll have a mess if you hesitate...
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    files- little bitty ones, Need source

    Google Jantz Knife Supply. They have a very good selection of files, from needle files to 60 degree lathe files. Excellent quality and good prices. Very nice people to do business with.
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    Necker with mini breast plate

    Hey, that's great, all of it.
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    Video - Lodestar Loading System

    Arcticap, I agree with your thoughts. It's an interesting gadget and seems to be fast. I'm not interested in fast when BP shooting. I can get by just fine with a CVA or TC powder measure. It looks like he is using a turkey injector with a curved nozzle but, maybe not, to grease the chambers...
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    .50 cal percssion thompson center

    I built one many years ago and this made me curious so I checked. The serial # is K10XXX. "Hawken" does not appear on the barrel. It also doesn't mean that all are stamped that way. Things could have changed with later production.
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    RANGE BOX

    Those are nice boxes. I'm lazy I guess. I just bought the appropriate (for me) plastic tool box at Home Depot. :idunno:
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