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Oxpho blue paste makes a pretty good finish but it will rub off eventually. I recommend a hair dryer or heat gun to get the metal just about too hot to hold and rub the paste in with 6-O steel wool and little buffing motions to prevent streaking. It touches up instantly and easily if you just...

I did my cherry woodsrunner with Minwax. The deciding factor for me was letting a quarter-sized puddle dry on a piece of glass. It actually dried in a few days as thick as it was, and more importantly wrinkled up showing proper expansion as a result of actual polymerization even though the oil...

I would certainly agree Jim won't sell trash and under normal use that stock should last forever just as it is....but. We've all set one down harder on the heel than we intended a time or two, and this one probably won't shrug that off like one with better grain direction. It's cheap insurance...

Blue if you don't make a toe plate. If you do make a toe plate, move it slightly forward so you drill the hole in front of the butt plate and cover it with the toe plate. I would use a 3/8" birch dowel sanded down for a fall-back-out fit and Titebond II wood glue (blue bottle) there, and...

I would need an X-ray. My recommendation for a single rod in the wrist is it is a lot harder to screw up than drilling multiple smaller holes that deep and at an awkward angle, plus it is all that is necessary there. The photo of the duffel cut repair above shows an excellent application for...

I have a theory that the type of patch lube used (grease/oil/wax vs. water-based or water/soap based) has more to do with the amount of corrosion an uncleaned gun experiences than the type of powder used in it. I'm not a fan of Pyrodex for a lot of reasons, the main one being how irritating...

Hot water blue it. Might I recommend Mark Lee Express Blue #1 and a piece of aluminum gutter with ends riveted and silicone sealed in place for a boiling tank. If the solder melts at 200 degrees F. then it wasn't any good to begin with. Hot caustic bluing is MUCH hotter than boiling water and...

I would put a single rod through the wrist. I wouldn't use all-thread rod, but a 3/8" rat tailed file. Most modern rat-tailed files are case hardened and not through-hardened so they don't require annealing, and with a hard case and soft core they are extremely rigid. The trick to making...

Not today, but yesterday, went about 100 miles NW with friends to do a practice run for the spring TMLRA shoot. It was upper 20s and 15-18 mph winds gusting to 35, quite a time. I shot three relays with the SMR, 30 rounds offhand, spit patch, cut at the muzzle because of wearing knit gloves...

It appears your experiment yielded quite nice results.

Newbies doing research, which is a good thing.

RTFM. It matters.

The single trigger pins through the stock. It isn't readily adjustable. Polishing the top of the bar to a mirror is a good idea. Kibler set up the geometry perfectly on the Woodsrunner and it has an excellent pull weight and letoff. I haven't measured it but a friend has on his and he came...

Because sometimes we DON'T have a choice. You could fix that by upping your side-hustle lock business. Make both of the locks you currently produce to fit the left side of the gun. Introduce a Durs Egg or Manton lock and make them for both sides of the gun. People still scratch-build...

No, not worth it when you can have the real thing for the same price.

It's been tested extensively. Makes no difference to group size.

If you're addressing the thread starter, he hasn't visited the board in three years.

Mine's like Rob's. $310 Kibler lock delivered, barrel blank $42 delivered, about $40 on hardware and breech plug, $80 in cartridge brass bar, $3 red oak dowel from the hardware store, scrap for pins, trigger, salvaged antique cabinet and door screws, cut the standing dead cherry tree from my...

Might be significant due to increased shooter confidence if nothing else.

Moar.... Cleaned up the left wrist a a bit and outlined the tang carving.