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Does that drop straight in, or do I have to do some inletting?

It ain’t pretty and shiny. Must be slow…

Other than the Traditions being a sleeker, more elegant gun, they are almost identical… -Red, stirring the puddin’…

That is beautiful! Nice work. Will be referencing this as I proceed. Thanks!

Oh, you’ll see her! In all her glory! Matter of fact, I’m betting there will be quite a few that are tired of seeing her by the time I’m done with the build, LOL! Thanks!

Thanks very much! Man, I hope I live another 34.5 years, just so I can say that! Congrats on the 36 years. Quite an accomplishment! -Red, no more Day 1’s…

The Incredi-Build: Return of Panama Red Day 2- The wife has figured out what I am doing in the reloading shed. I accidentally left the door open a little too long, she walked by, and noticed the overall cleaned out/rearranged look of the shed. “Ooh, that looks nice! Wait, WHAT IS THIS???” she...

Best advice ever! You will never know happiness until you spend your children’s inheritance to find out something just isn’t for you…

He did nail that thing, didn’t he? There are a ton of videos of guys who basically assembled the kit, slapped stain on it, and started shooting it, all rough and ugly. And then there are guys who take a basic kit, and do that bit extra that transforms it, makes it their own. Either one is fine...

I was discussing it with my father before dinner last night. He taught me how to build balsa airplanes way back about 1969. I said that balsa was a lot easier to shape. Nice and soft a sanded easy. And cheap. If you messed it up, you are out a buck maybe. Even with this inexpensive kit, you’re...

I know I’ve seen this one! You are one of the few I saw that left the brass spacer, and had it come out looking good. This thread almost convinced me to leave the brass, but I’m thinking it looks good on here because of all the other brass adornments. They just make it “fit”. Nice work! And, the...

They make a black stain that may get a part in all of this. Depends on how dark I want the dark areas. Hoping to achieve it with a deep brown… -Red, always the optimist…

Nah! Just one more thing to figure out! The journey is half the fun. The other half will be shooting stuff with it. -Red, headed down the road…

Post up some pics! And definitely some pics when you shoot it!

Thanks! When I reassemble it, I will definitely check it. There was a point in the shaping of this that I thought, “Well, screwed that up! Lopsided stock, here we go!” -Red, slightly lopsided himself…

Started extending the wrist in to the comb of the stock… not sure I’m doing this right. It’s ok, I guess. Wasn’t exactly what I was picturing. -Red, trying to figure it out…

I watched a video on it. Guy did a decent job of it. I figured I’d wait until I get an actual piece of curly maple… this one is for practicing a few other things. Like filing this stock down… sheesh! -Red, frustrated with files and such…

I don’t know about painting it… hadn’t even considered that as an option. Will dig in to it, but will probably go with my original idea of staining the stock a bit darker in front of the lock so as to give it a natural break between the grain of the back half, and the grain of the front… But the...

Hey longcruise! Thanks for the info! I’ll go you 50% better and value it at 3 cents, lol! Was planning on reshaping the nose cap, based on one of the builds I saw on here. Can’t remember which one, but they made their own nose cap with part of the original, and a sheet of brass… I probably won’t...

Hey Phil! I’ve already studied your build. Enjoyed it, and will be referring to it regularly as I go along. It was interesting to see someone who had built finer rifles jump on one of these lower end kits. Thanks for the link. Now I don’t have to go dig it up. -Red, too lazy to use the search...