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Was that police range on Maui?

Wow! That sounds like a club membership where membership is limited, and the downstroke actually involves equity, like a country club membership.

One "tool" that often gets off these sorts of lists is not really a tool, but a skill (and there are tools you need to do it). Learning how to sharpen your tools, and doing it.....often.

Undercutting your raised carving will cause the stain to accumulate there. If you then take a bit of steel wool to the tops (after it dries), and knock a bit of the stain back, (go slow here) those will be highlighted. If you keep the undercut thin, the varnish will then accumulate in the same...

As was stated earlier, in obtaining the same velocities, you can decrease your charges in Swiss by about 10%-15% relative to the other powders, so roughly 1/3 of that price differential will be recovered there. The other benefits (such as decreased fouling, easier cleaning, and enhanced...

Be careful of using a rock tumbler though. Any media tumbler is going to round off sharp edges. Sometimes that's ok, and sometimes it's not. Sometimes the sharp edges you want (such as on a sear or tumbler) will need to be freshened up afterwards. It all depends on the part. Just use...

A lot of times I go the easy route with rusted items and put them in a cartridge case tumbler for a day or two.

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

They're darn easy to lose. More than once I've helped friends dig through the leaves looking for a lost wedge! If you used store bought wedges it might be a good idea to buy an extra 1-2 and file them to the size of your largest / longest wedge, and keep them in the patch box. Another trick...

The soot method (many ways of getting it) applied will be easier to deal with in the end. Material like inletting black or lipstick has grease and wax in it which finds its' way in to the pores of the wood and is a real bugger to get out of there. In contrast, soot is "dry" and comes off...

Was that your first use of wedges vs. pins? Excellent job. They're a LOT more work aren't they? Did you slot them so they could be captured by a pin in the stock? Losing wedges is a real downer.

WARNING! What ever you do, do NOT try to split those husks and peel them off by hand! I tried that a few years ago with my back yard walnuts and my hands turned completely black! I couldn't get the stain on them off with ANY type of solvent! The only way to get rid of it was to sand it off...

Like you, I too hate rattly triggers. The side to side stuff is caused by the hole in the trigger being bigger than the pin by just a little bit. That is, there are no "shoulders" on the blade to help keep it straight. One way to correct this is to get a bigger pin. The way I dealt with it in...

That's a function of the direction of the wood grain in your stock, and its' offset angle from the barrel direction. I have a 48" barreled gun on a highly curled stock that moves .100" over the course of a year. The straighter the grain, the less the movement. The slot for the pin closest to...

Makes you wonder how much they actually listen to the "Technical Advisors" on these movie sets doesn't it?

He is a very prolific poster and builder with lots of pictures on both sites. I would also suggest you do an advanced search under "Damascus barrels" to see what's been posted or started as a thread in the past. Chances are about 90%+ that this issue has been spoken to in the past.

Dave Person user name; Dave Person The ALR web site is another good resource to ask the same question. He goes by the same user name there too.

Depends. The couch can get pretty lumpy after awhile. The time you spend on it is directly correlated to how much money you spent on yourself, offset by the amount you spent on her. The great equalizer; Flowers fix everything

I suggest you PM Dave Person directly about the question. If he doesn't know, he'll surely know someone who does. From the looks of your pictures, the barrel seems in very good shape. But, you never know if water might have penetrated the laminations one time inside the bore and caused rust...

Explaining things to a new shooter (or any physical skill) and teaching them about it is the best way to understand it and practice it yourself. My shooting has improved enormously since I started teaching (Scouts mostly). For example; Here is one trick I use to demonstrate and eliminate...