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That brings up an interesting point. Yeah the military loves to have all brass be snappy looking and shiny. I think it's more to show the members the importance of attention to detail than it is for looks. In garrison it's one thing. In the field it's another. Nothing draws (enemy) fire...

The shinier it is, the less prone it is to tarnish. If you prepare it with VERY fine sandpaper, like up to 5000 grit it will take a very long time to lose its' shine. If it's possible to remove it from the gun, go that route instead. Start with a relatively coarse grit, like 400 or 600 and...

I have to add my voice to the same question.

Whiskering is one of those things you often have to do 2-3-4 times before the whiskers stop rising. Sometimes you'll sand through areas that were previously "whiskered smooth" and get a new growth where there wasn't one on a previous treatment. That's ok. Just do it again. And again maybe...

Make it a musical?

Aha!. Now I get it! Thank you! Now, do you have a good solution for gluing up cabinet boxes to not wrack?

Holes in the cheeks? Which holes? I thought the axels were fixed to the cheeks at the bottom.

I agree that if they had better technology they might have won more battles, such as Gettysburg or Antetiem, but I think the north would have still won in the end. It just would have gone on longer. At the end of the day, it always comes down to which side has the stronger / deeper economy...

It looks like a beautiful display piece. No touch hole? That would be on my "to do" list! GOTTA shoot it! I built a similar carriage some years ago for a 1/6 scale 42 pounder. One task I had to spend extra time on was drilling the trunion holes at the slight angle to reflect the splay of...

Due to the issues identified above (TG, trigger, lock, lock panels, BP material & shape etc., plus others such as the appearance the breech is above the plane of the top barrel flat) it doesn't neatly fit any of the major "boxes" of the better known plains rifle half-stock styles such as Hawken...

Maple (seasonally over a 12" span) moves about 1/4" radially, and 1/8" tangentially as the wood expands and contracts while it equalizes with atmospheric humidity. The reason for slotting the pins is to allow for seasonal. wood movement across the grain, both radially and tangentially. While...

Now that I'm thinking about it some, maybe if you have a similar caliber / breech size cartridge gun (like an M1 Carbine) that might be a decent gun to try the (previously mentioned) experiment on. If it doesn't work, just open the bolt--voila. Of course, the end of the receiver being closed...

What a great project! Guys that know their way around a shop can really come up with some wonderful stuff in the end. Of course, the really BIG savings come if you know how to do household plumbing and electrical repairs.

I'm just speculating, but maybe you could have pushed it all the way to the bottom of the bore where it would have been all bunched up and the patch puller coil would have had more material to grab on to? I wouldn't try it as an experiment though unless pulling the breech plug (always the...

when mixing the concoction just remember; "acid to water, just like you ought'r" You might get a nasty surprise if you do the reverse.

Having patches freeze to the muzzle makes for interesting shooting sessions. But looking at the bright side, no bugs either.

Mistakes and lessons learned the hard way are the ones that stick with you.

So in a case like that you wouldn't have any finish under the finial, correct? Do you worry about that raw wood being less stable than the rest of the stock? Or, do you somehow seal the wood under there before final "flushing up"? Maybe using something like acri-glass under it with mould...

I always have trouble with patch box inlet bottoms swelling so the PB's never fit as flush as they did before finishing. Yes, I usually have to scrape out the edges to get them back in there again, (but this can be mitigated during the finishing process somewhat by scraping finish out of there...

Tried `n True is very sensitive to atmospheric humidity when it comes to drying time. It needs to go on very very thin. Japan dryer helps.