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[ToddsPoint]

Good morning!☕️

 

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[CreekSide]

Morning guys

 

[CreekSide]

I hope everyone enjoys this day
I’m off 😃

 

[blossom]

Morning Pirates xx hope your all ready for the week ahead! xx 🤗 another busy one for me, trip to london on Wednesday.. 😅 xx

 

[releventchair]

Inlays can get tricky. I can re-fret, do fret re-levels, crown ,polish, but I would rather replace the neck or fingerboard then attempt any inlays.

Fancy!!

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Been a long time...
Dennis Purdy (?) was working on a rifle at a shoot. Probably many shoots.
One of the builders who used a small mallet to load a black powder rifle of his build.

I watched him patiently (it's really a level beyond patience) tapping silver wire inlay into a fullstock. The oft preferred tight grained tiger maple type.
He had at least a thousand hours into it (the rifle) by his estimation.
Including repairs when someone knocked the stock over when the barrel wasn't in it (as usual when stock as being worked on) and the vibrations broke it.

Glad it wasn't my stock and those kind of hours when someone knocked it over.
I'd have been working in a prison shop somewhere probably.

But that's just cosmetics.
Inletting a lock mortise requires patience for safety reasons. Fine dust from black powder accumulating in a crack leading to getting in behind a lock plate is a big no no.
An old timer had a barn he built in and helped me with some fine tuning.
Some of his tools he built himself (like a circular saw blade with old style coffin shaped teeth attached to cut barrel channels) were interesting.
He had a flint longrifle of mine firing upside down. A well tuned lock.

My first build from a kit cost around 80 dollars.
Inletting that first lock probably made me almost sweat.
I'm no wood worker.

Lock mortise question

Lock mortise question

americanlongrifles.org

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.

 

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[oldmxrat]

Good morning

 

[Evan in CA]

Now why are's you'z up so early?
Morning to you Evan.
A rarely spoken word for me as the PM is well on the way, when you play.

Morning Pepperj, I was woken up at 6am from a message from my boss. Someone broke in to one of the shops offices and stole the safe that was bolted down to the floor. Took the guy about 30 seconds to pry it up. My job was to get plywood and board up the front glass door that he broke through.
Freaking low lives

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning everybody

 

[newnan man]

Good morning everyone. Doing a little Christmas shopping today. It's easy. Everyone I know wants liquor! I'm stopping by my favorite dive bar later to sample some. 🥃🍸🍹

 

[releventchair]

Good morning everybody

Mornin Evan!