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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    My next build won't be a chambers kit. In fact, I doubt that I'll ever build another kit. I don't think the kit's partially inletted lock mortice does you any favors. My next project will be a .40 caliber Lehigh County rifle. I picked up a stock with good tight curl from Tiger Hunt and a nice...
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    Swamp Rat, the sights went on today. I used a Brownell's dovetail file to do the front sight after the TOW sight chisel rolled a 7, but I tried the chisel again on the rear sight, which has a much shallower dovetail. It worked, but I still cleaned up the undercuts with the file. The barrel is...
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    The stock is stained and finished. The patch is certainly visible, but I guess it could have been worse.
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    Traditions Kentucky Complete Rebuild

    You are doing a great job. I can't wait to see the finished product
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    Update #28 is up. This update covers sanding and whiskering the stock, and I cut incised lines to detail the lower border of the butt stock and to form the ramrod channel molding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjtfA5lESA
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    I finished the final piece of inletting on the stock. Now it is on to sanding and carving.
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    Burnishing and scraping

    That makes sense. I'll try your method. Thanks
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    Burnishing and scraping

    I'll have to bow to your greater experience, but I'm surprised. I can feel a tremendous difference between a stock I've sanded with 220 grit vs one I've gone all the way to 600. The 600 sanded stocks feel as slick as an old bone. But you do have to let the stain work longer with a 600 sanded...
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    Burnishing and scraping

    I was over at Woodcrafters today, and the clerk who was helping me recommended that I sand to 220 grit, then carve, then burnish and finally scrape. Do any of you do it that way? In the past, I'd sand to 600 grit, whisker...whisker...whisker...etc...then do any carving.
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    wow precarves are a bargain

    It really looks good. I don't have the skill or the equipment to work from a blank...mostly it's the skill I don't have. :bow:
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    Fred, thanks again for showing me how to do this. I really appreciate it. I guess I over-engineered that concave end to the button. Next time I'l leave it flat.
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    This is the final video covering the patchbox on my Track of the Wolf Bucks County flintlock rifle kit. In this video I’ll make and install the actual lid release button. I’ll be making the button out of a big, old wood screw. In fact, this was a butt plate screw from a British SMLE rifle...
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    Drill Jig or Not to Drill Jig...

    I use this R.E. Davis fixture on my drill press for drilling barrel pins and the tang bolt. It works flawlessly. I highly recommend it http://www.redaviscompany.com/0883.html
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    Here's what the button looks like installed..still needs to be polished and browned
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    I'm getting the video for update #27 ready, but first I thought I'd show you the parchbox lid release button tip that Fred Lehto gave me. This design is pure genius. It was easy to do and it worked like a charm, as you'll see when the video goes up. The button itself is made out of a large...
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    Swamp Rat, you'll see in the next video that I wasn't happy with my peening job on that stud. It didn't fill in the countersink completely on one side. So, I covered the gap with silver solder...which also adds to the strength of the joint. But it took me an hour to sand off the silver solder...
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    This is the first of two videos where I install the spring catch and stud for a push button patchbox release on the Track of the Wolf Bucks County flintlock rifle kit. In Update #27 I'll make the actual push button release trigger. Just so you know, this is the first time I’ve ever done a push...
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    Swamp Rat I filmed that process, so it will be in there
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    TOW Bucks County Rifle Kit Update

    This is not an official update of the Bucks County kit build. It is more like a video sigh of relief that the patchbox lid catch and release actually lined up correctly and worked. This is the first push button lid release I've ever done...never even saw one done before. So I sweated it big...
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