Thursday, December 30, 2010

I got a rifle fer Christmas

Well, sorta.




It's a kit.....a "do it yerself". Midwest Chick bought it for me for Christmas!

Actually, just what I wanted.

.50 cal...... Flintlock..... Charcoal burner.

Gonna take a LOT of work polishing the metalwork....and then the roughed out stock is gonna take even more.

I figure 3 months of evenings.....

(the first 90% of the project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.....)

So far, I have cleaned up all the burrs on the barrel cutouts and have polished with 600 grit and started on the 1000 grit paper....The barrel is cleaning up nicely. Og has offered to blue the metalwork when I am done, and I may take him up on that, but I may choose to brown it too. I have lots of time to think about that and decide before I am done with the deburring and polishing....Suggestions?
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8 comments:

  1. ogFriday, December 31, 2010 at 7:03:00 AM CST

    Very nice, a very nice piece4 of wood.

    The only suggestion I have is be careful not to round off the corners of the wood OR the metal. Kit rifles tend to look like kit rifles if they have been sanded until all the sharp edges are gone. There are jigs and etc. you can make to prevent that happening, which you'll figure out plenty soon.

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  2. ogSaturday, January 1, 2011 at 10:12:00 AM CST

    By the way, here's the formula I always used and found good.

    http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/foxfire5.html

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  3. KurtPSaturday, January 1, 2011 at 12:49:00 PM CST

    Most of those old guns were browned.
    I used a formula from a bottle on my 'Trapper' model front-suffer.
    You'll also find out the a judicious use of a Dremmel (for fitting parts) is your friend.

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  4. MrGarabaldiWednesday, January 5, 2011 at 7:20:00 PM CST

    That is a nice kit, where did midwest Girl get it from?

    I thank you for your time

    Bob

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  5. MrGarabaldiWednesday, January 5, 2011 at 8:30:00 PM CST

    I messed up the name, I meant Midwest Chick, My apologies...

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  6. Midwest ChickThursday, January 6, 2011 at 9:02:00 AM CST

    I got it through Impact Guns: www.impactguns.com (thanks to the indomitable Og for locating it). They were great and the shipping was lightning fast.

    One of their folks even went down to the dock to see if it had shipped out or not since the shipping guy wasn't in when I called.

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  7. Midwest ChickThursday, January 6, 2011 at 9:04:00 AM CST

    And no worries on the name... :-) BTW, congrats on your new blog MrG! Look forward to reading some good things.

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  8. MrGarabaldiTuesday, January 18, 2011 at 12:24:00 AM CST

    Thank you:)

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