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    Can anyone identify this emblem?

    Ed - Mike Brooks gave you the right answer. According to the late Lynton McKenzie, these compositions represented captured enemy arms and battle paraphernalia, things like halberds, pikes, swords, drums, flags, cannons, bombs, arranged in an artistic pile. These designs are frequently...
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    TrueOil

    Ronnie - First questions first. Tru-Oil can be thinned very nicely with mineral spirits (painters' thinner, varsol, etc.). I normally don't thin Tru-Oil except to seal the stock for the first coat, and also to use as a protective coating for color case hardening. This makes a water thin...
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    barrel liners q to brockway 32

    fw - I don't recall the name of the liners I used, this would have been around 1970 or so, but they were not too expensive then. About $20 as I remember. They were advertised regularly in the National Rifleman. As best I can remember, the wall thickness was about 1/8," which would make the...
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    barrel liners anyone ever put one in?

    fw - I have installed several barrel liners, a couple of .22 calibers in Stevens Favorite single shots and one .45 caliber in an old swamped hand forged Kentucky rifle barrel, but its been a long time ago. On the .22s, I ground the drill with a swept back point angle, and it followed the bore...
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    Making engraving tools

    Bill - I do a fair amount of engraving, mostly on guns, but a few knives as well, and have come to the conclusion that, since gravers last such a long time, it's false economy to bother with substitutes for the real thing. So, just what is the real thing? I like MoMax blanks, which are a...
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    Plum Brown

    Like Tanstaafl, I used to use Plum Brown, until I discovered Laurel Mountain Forge. The Plum Brown does give a nice color, but it depends on the even heating of the barrel. It also contains selenium, which is a poison that can be absorbed through the skin and fingernails. LMF is ever so much...
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    Browning A Barrel and Parts Help

    Hounds Tooth - After browning the lock plates, I just usually polish the back side with 400 grit wet-or-dry, wrapped around a file, to remove the browner that slopped over on the back side. Just takes a few minutes. I don't think it would hurt anything to ignore the brown stains where they...
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    useing old shotgun barrles

    Guys - It can be done. Here's a couple of doubles made from modern Damascus tubes. They're neither short (about 29 - 30" each), nor slow to fire (The coned touch hole is very similar to Jim Chamber's "White Lightnin." For another finished gun, search on this board for "Daisy's Double," by...
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    Browning A Barrel and Parts Help

    lonewolf - My experience with LMF browner has been very good. The following is a checklist of things that might be causing some trouble: Polishing - The browning job will only be as good as the polishing job. The parts should be polished bright with wet-or-dry paper wrapped around a hard...
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    Attaching two barrels to each other

    Captchee - I have never seen a flint gun with the breeches recessed like the two John Mantons in Drake's advertisement. Most I have seen have had the flat vertical face of the plugs set back a quarter inch or so toward the center of the barrels. If you study all the pictures of the Mantons...
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    Attaching two barrels to each other

    Bezoar, Captchee, and others - Looks like I am always getting in on these conversations a week or so late. Bezoar - Assuming you are talking about shotgun barrels, Captchee's instructions are right on the money. If you are talking about two rifle barrels, however, some kind of mechanical...
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    daisies double

    Captchee - Once again, thank you for the kind words. I'm not too sure I understand the question about breech design, but I'll give it a try. Most of the guns I have seen have a very definite shoulder at the bottom of the threads in the barrels, and the plugs snug up at two places, one at the...
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    daisies double

    Charlie - That is as beautiful a description of building a double from scratch as I have ever seen. And the photos are spectacular. Of course, I am prejudiced, but I also appreciate your plugging the book, too. It gives me a real jolt of pleasure to have somebody like yourself take the book...
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