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you gotta be quick or it'll shrivel up and get all funky as it dries out.

Most will never see the light of day, it was explained to me thusly. As a business model, it's very difficult to overcome a reputation for poor quality, only publish your best work until established.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^This right here^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This information is available, just need to do the due diligence and read the material, doesn't matter what you think you heard or saw, the tests prove that some of the long ingrained beliefs are just not correct.

Interesting thread with some downright funny assumptions, It is amazing how many wives tales are dismissed with a series of scientific experiments conducted at 5000 frames per second, thanks again Larry Pletcher for bringing science instead of emotions to flintlocks and how they function.

I don't doubt that you're getting good results and are happy with them. Here is a little test that you can perform that will prove my point, no matter if your using dye or stain, take a piece of wood and apply your chosen formula and let it dry as you normally would, then take a white rag and...

We can agree to dis-agree, there is a ton of information out there, also search for posts by Stophel, this subject has been covered extensively.

Or roll the revolver to the left in an unnatural manner to accomplish, also on the cartridge guns you have a difficult time manipulating the loading gate right handed. Sam Colt was left handed.

NW trade gun.........................................

There is little to no possible chance that aqua fortis has ever turned a curly maple stock green, chromium trioxide holds that distinction, both are applied and blushed the same way so therefore they are easily confused with each other. Aqua fortis being a chemical reaction will bring the best...

^^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^ That said, engraving is not a skill that is easily acquired, many many hours of practice and many more studying technique just to learn the control required to cut a straight line of even depth, or a tapered line to effectively give the illusion of depth. If you slip or...

Yes I can help, it would be ideal if you purchased your star(s) fitted them to the curvature of your cheek piece and inlet them, then send to me for cutting. Hammers, files, and sandpaper will negatively affect the final engraving.

Can you post some pictures, what you have and what you want it to eventually look like

Unless you're going to pursue hand engraving on a larger scale I would not purchase a liner tool, the above star was cut with a square graver as 99% of all longrifle engraving is cut solely with a square tool. Not sure if you have the tooling to make a holder for the graver or not, if not then...

Specifications: Brand : E.C. Muller Dimensions : 4"L x 2.0mmW Material : Carbon steel Size : #10 Style : Line Country of origin : United States Additional Specifications...

A'yup, could not agree more.

The biggest poke in the eye to those that shoot right handed was perpetrated by Sam Colt and his revolvers, his designs are for left handed shooters. I like to shoot my left hand flinters.

If it were me I would purchase something like this and cut a "square nail" from it, then either file it into a round nail to suit your purposes or file a square tapered hole in the nose cap.

Pure scrap can be had from your local service plumber

They make a thin (paper) two sided carpet tape that holds well, depends on how temporary of an attachment you're looking for, if just to try it out for a day or so this would work and easy to clean up, either because you don't like the sight or you want a more permanent attachment. If you go...

Here is the tutorial from Mike Brooks