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  1. bajabuc

    steel for tomahawks

    I found a guy who moved into an old sawmill...the mill was gone but the blades...the kind with 42" diameter 3/8" thick NON carbide tipped saw blades, ...the dang things were everywhere. tips broke and all kinds of problems. Said he, " sure...get 'em outta here before my kid pokes out an eye."...
  2. bajabuc

    Buckskin question

    G&R Laubin "The Indian Tipi" University of Oklahoma Press, 1957 and 1977 Second and MUCH improved edition. There's a FOOL PROOF set of instructions on how to make Lakota mocs. Even how to make your own Indian Rawhide for the soles. Now...if you can find a pair of WW2 Artic over boots...yeah...
  3. bajabuc

    clothing pattern help

    First things first....how old is she? If she's under 12 you're ok I bought a passel of culled tanned deer hides on Ebay for 25$ including shipping. They smelled funny for a while but I hung them outdoors for a few days and it went away. The hides are all gullywampus and holey but they make a...
  4. bajabuc

    Bag, Horn, Charger

    Here we go. It's 1978 and I found this womans purse in a dumpster, the badger hide, on a stretcher, was in the same dumpster. When I turned the purse inside-out, a $20 bill fell out and I thought...Wheee!! Sewed the badger to the inside-out purse with artifical sinue and instant shooters...
  5. bajabuc

    Daughters gun...part of it anyway

    cal....well...the original barrel was drilled out 3/8"..lessee..that'd be .375. the barrel came from a model 95 7mm mauser 3 step. I hand filed it octagon from the breech to the first step and tapered it too. Filed in a wedding ring. then filed out the steps from the ring to the muzzle...
  6. bajabuc

    Build it the way you liked, it's your gun.

    when I built my second son's gun I had several obstacles to surmount. He's left handed, right eyed, hates flint and, at the time, 7 years old. I bought a very old and very warped maple stock board...not blank...board. It was dirt cheap...like 5$. Would have made two nice full stocks except...
  7. bajabuc

    first flinter

    I posted pics of the daughters gun. on the photo page...hey...I'm new.
  8. bajabuc

    Daughters gun...part of it anyway

    I haven't done a thing to these photos. The stock looks like that.
  9. bajabuc

    first flinter

    I do still have the fullstock I built for my daughter...well...most of it..I used the second barrel for a lefthand rifle I made for my youngest son and the lock for a pistol I built for my father-in-law. The triggerguard is around someplace. The stock is two or three pieces of 90% maple glued...
  10. bajabuc

    staining a stock?

    I took nitric acid and disolved #4 steelwool in it until it wouldn't disolve any more. DON'T BREATHE THE RED SMOKE!! then I added a bit of water and let it set for about a week. I made sure the wood was "in the white" and free from any grease or fingerprints. Gasline antifreeze works great...
  11. bajabuc

    first flinter

    I started it when I was 18...I'm 66 now. egad!! nearly 50 years. How time does fly. It was sold almost as soon as I finished it...$850... if I remember...Earl Anderson bought it. I used some old book from the library for the basics and ideaed up the rest. I was told time and time again...
  12. bajabuc

    first flinter

    I built my own. Cut down a maple...axe and crosscut. Got an axle out of a 1948 ford 3/4 ton pickup rearend, reamed it, built a rifling bench, rifled it 4 groves 1:66. filed on the flats 3/4 octagon, the rest round with 2 wedding rings, Built a bowlathe and turned some hickory ram rods. Cut...
  13. bajabuc

    Very frustrating range experience with my flintlock

    no breakfree...no Pyrodex...no brassbrush no 3f 4f in the pan...3f in the barrel if under .58 cal. 2f if over .60 I use a little brass push pan charger. I have to push it 3 times to get enough to charge the pan. I use HOT soapy water...hot enough to heat up the barrel and dry itself. I've...
  14. bajabuc

    How not to shoot a flintlock

    I love my .54 fffflinter and hardly ever fffflinch.
  15. bajabuc

    pedersoli or lyman

    If I had my choice...it would be a Santa Fe Hawkin from Uberti. the .53 cal is more authentic. But I own a Great Plains.
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