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    making inlays of brass and german silver

    if you find or make a pattern or drawing of a inlay you like, simply copy it on your printer to the right size, cut it out and glue it on the sheet stock want to make it from. use any contact cement. you can rough cut it and then file to the line for a perfect shape. one trick is to scribe...
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    CVA tumbler notch broken out: new part, recut or new lock?

    definatley new part.
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    idea for a product

    plain and simple....it just could not be done rescoursing every component from inside the US. i don't think it could be done rescourcing outside the states, for that matter, not even at double the price. evan when you consider absolute minimum manufacturing and barely any profit. besides the FDA...
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    dirty shop

    you put a picture of a shop up....but, where's the picture of the dirty shop? :rotf:
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    Stainable wood filler

    not really any type of filler will adhere well enough to any wood to actually stay on when filling inletting voids. best to get some brownells acra-glass gel and mix in some of the dye that comes with it, then either glass bed the part or use the acra-glass as adhesive to glue in thin strips of...
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    blueprints and other resources

    with today's cnc equipement, it's relatively easy to reproduce any article. the problem is, unless your going to produce hundreds, or thousands of the piece, the equipement is prohibatively expensive for a small one man shop to invest in for just that purpose. hand building a lock in small...
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    tips on decorating stocks

    i would think it's safe to say none of them were glued, as they didn't have an adhesive that would bond metal to wood, back then. very large inlays might have been screwed, but most were pinned with a tapered pin in a tapered hole that was smaller than the big end of the nail,the head peened to...
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    Question on original Hawken rifles

    respectably,IMHO, there's simply not enough of them around any more to reliably assume that any known design was thier "standard". with the several different people operating as Hawken guns" during the time, i'm quite sure there was some amount of artistic liscence that would be responsible for...
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    How do hobby makers finish the metal?

    i think most of the guns of the time, from smaller makers, were delivered in the white and the patina was left to develope from time,weather and use. i know the vincents were done that way. today and in more modern times, browning/blueing is done to deliver a gun that looks aged and "correct"...
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    blueprints and other resources

    probably easiest/cheapest way to obtain a hard set of parts to use as patterns would be to buy a lock kit. all the drilling indexes are there, so if you get your parts roughed out to at least match the kit's parts, you would be in good shape to successfully complete your own lock. as with...
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    Mountain rifle pics

    that's really nice! and nice piece of maple,some good figure but not flashy, very elegant and a good example of what would be seen on a good typical gun of the period. i like your trigger guard, did you make it?
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    blueprints and other resources

    i agree, a decent print for a lock would be nice. i've had a hankering to try building a lock for some time now, but all i find is hand drawn pictures of the parts with no measurements....not very accurate. i could see re-making pretty many parts before i get them to fit good and work together.
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    Conical vs. round ball for whitetails

    that's one good thing about being a bow hunter and using a muzzle gun also. you realize the importance of getting close and it makes getting there a part of the hunt, naturally. i'm in about the same boat... i have several high powers that, for all practicle conditions, no matter how far away...
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    novice question of steel choice

    not positive abot this.... using a softer steel requires the steel to be an alloy that will respond well to heat-treating,( have enough carbon content to get harder without getting brittle). there's problem machining the steels currently used, so it would only add to production cost. heat...
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    1" Barrel from 54 to 58 cal?

    whew, my shoulder hurts, and i'm seein' funny!! :shocked2:
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    hardening tumbler

    wicke, no, i haven't. and i stand corrected for not knowing how bad they can be... i guess. although i am a proponent of building low budget because i can usually make things work right with a little work on my part. i am just a hobby builder that has read allot and have a good friend that...
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    How to lighten a triggerpull

    i'd do the dance anyways....beuty is in the eye of the beholder....just make sure there aint no beholders around! :thumbsup:
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    hardening tumbler

    the above answers are good, but tend to lean toward the assumtion that allot of material was taken off in the stoning process, which there shouldn't have been. if you just stoned the face of the notch enough to slick it up, you shouldn't have removed enough material to change anything, even if...
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    How to lighten a triggerpull

    sear spring weight is something to look at when you are trying to get the last the few ounces of an already well tuned trigger pull off. most springs ends are so close to the sear pivot that you can't tell the few extra ounces of pull weight from the spring untill the rest of the system is...
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    How to lighten a triggerpull

    time after time this issue comes up and time after time it results in replies that demonstrate the confusion between trigger pull weight and engagement depth....the two are not the same and are only related because of the misunderstanding. the pull weight is not a product of engagement depth...
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