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  1. J

    Help with tools for Jim Chambers Class

    Looks like you have plenty of advise on what to get and where to get it. I attend classes like this at least once a year, like the NMLRA gunsmithing seminar, have been doing so for several years. My advise is get what you can off of that list but, don't break the bank. The other students in...
  2. J

    Loose Arbor - Uberti Walker

    Thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions on fixing the Walker. I have done a repair on it, shot it and it appears to be functioning very well. This repair is fairly easy to do, here is a short description of what was done. For this description, I will use the part #’s that appear on this...
  3. J

    Loose Arbor - Uberti Walker

    Well there is something I did not know, that the arbor is threaded into the frame body. I could not find a parts diagram of a Walker that showed just how those two pieces were mated together. I thought it was just a pressure fit with the roll pin peened over to hold it. If I can back that...
  4. J

    Loose Arbor - Uberti Walker

    I have owned a Uberti Walker for several years. Fired several hundred rounds thru it. Usually load it up around 55 grains for target shooting. I occassionally hunt whitetails with it (yeah, it works just fine!) and want the heavier charge so that is what I practice with. This fall, accuracy...
  5. J

    Flint Lock Hunting Rifle

    Here is another vote for the SMR style, .50 or .54 your choice. For several years now I have used a Track kit SMR I built for deer hunting. I kept it simple, no patchbox, carving, hunter's star, just iron furniture. It's not fancy and I don't have a lot of time and money invested in it, so I...
  6. J

    Cracked Wrist Repair Opinions

    Thanks for the replies and ideas. I disassembled the gun today and found the problem was worse than I suspected. Once the barrel, tang and lock were removed it was evident the crack ran all the way under the lock and side plate extending forward the the trigger and the two pieces were only...
  7. J

    Cracked Wrist Repair Opinions

    A friend has brought me a flintlock he built about 7 years ago for some work. He has asked me to do a repair on the stock. I am putting this up for advice on how to proceed. The problem is in the wrist area around the tang screw. As you can see in the photos, the back end of the lollipop...
  8. J

    What size chisels and gouges for making stock from blank?

    I have attended the NMLRA Gunsmithing Seminars in Bowling Green, Ky for several years now. A couple of years back I took a class from Ron Scott, (Medford, Oregon) a master at the construction of the Jaeger rifle. This class was instruction of a scratch build of a Paul Posen Jaeger rifle. Here...
  9. J

    Oil on the Stock

    Thanks for the ideas. As I understand what happened cutting oil somehow spilled on the stock and sat there for a while. Suspicion is his cat knocked the bottle over. Anyway, the gun is one this guy started at one of the NMLRA gunsmithing seminars under Hershel Houses' instruction. It was...
  10. J

    Oil on the Stock

    Got a buddy who is asking me about getting an oil stain out of an unfinished maple stock. The oil was cutting oil from the touch-hole drilling operation. The stock is largely finished, may have some relief carving left but that is all. Question is, is there anything anyone can suggest which...
  11. J

    Burnishing a stock?

    Burnishing stocks will work just fine, there is one caution. If you burnish one area and say finish an area right next to it with a in another fasion such as a cabinet scraper, sanding ect, the two areas will finish up differently. Stain, oil ect., will not absorb the same as each of these...
  12. J

    Any Shoots in Alberta?

    I got a good friend who lives in Calgery, has a business in Baniff, comes to the NMLRA gunsmithing schools each year. He may know something. I sent your question to him, if he sends anything back, I'll let you know.
  13. J

    loading stand

    I have some photos of a stand that I made some time back here http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/202409/post/361413/hl//fromsearch/1/ that may give you some ideas.
  14. J

    Warm howdy from Kentucky

    Good to see another local pull up to the fire. Don't know what part of the state you are in but, if you are Central or Eastern, and hunting traditional sidelocks, do not pass up an opportunity to hunt the Pioneer Weapons WMA in the Daniel Boone NF near Cave Run Lake. It is a sidelock only...
  15. J

    Point of impact change?

    I have done this experiment and usually found that the POI drops as you increase the powder charge, to a point anyway. This seems counterintuitive but, it was explained to me by an old timer this way: The 3F charge will produce slightly more velocity than your 2F charge of the same weight...
  16. J

    Friendship, In

    It would be worth it if you had more than just that reason to travel there. The first two days of the shoot, Saturday and Sunday are the best if you are looking to purchase supplies. Some of the vendors clear out as early as the first Monday. A venue far closer to your neck of the woods that...
  17. J

    Comparable Swiss load

    About 15% less Swiss to Goex is the general rule that I have heard. Swiss is a hotter powder no doubt, just for fun two loads or the same charge first the Goex than the Swiss, you will notice the difference in the recoil! Aim at the same target, you will probably also note a significant...
  18. J

    Gun Building DVD's ...

    Mark Silver just did a video this year with Pioneer on stocking long rifles all with traditional hand tools. A lot of work with spoke shaves and draw knives. He spends a good portion of the video explaining the various tools, how to use and what to look for in one when buying. It if probably...
  19. J

    Maple wood question

    I don't know if I could tell the difference between the two in sawn boards, I have never worked with Red Maple. Of the two, true Sugar Maple (the Red is a type of Sugar Maple but inferior in sugar producing qualities), is a superior stocking wood. Sugar Maple grows slower and would therefore...
  20. J

    Size of patch ?

    Cut your patches at the muzzle, saves the work of pre-cutting - set your short starter up right and you can get very consistent results doing it this way.
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