Don't Carve That Stock!

[PathfinderNC]

You can appreciate the beauty of a flat tire and that’s fine with me
But yeah, you said you’re not good enough to do carvings ( yet). That’s kinda the idea

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Those that prefer to make plain guns generally can't carve. Coincidence?

 

[The Appalachian]

You can appreciate the beauty of a flat tire and that’s fine with me
But yeah, you said you’re not good enough to do carvings ( yet). That’s kinda the idea

So by your "logic" that equally disqualifies most then....and it's an exclusive club of snobs, like you.

Got it.......

I knew there was ultimately a "point" to your self grandiose thread here, it just took a little prying to get it to the surface.

 

[PathfinderNC]

So by your "logic" that equally disqualifies most then....and it's an exclusive club of snobs, like you.

Got it.......

I knew there was ultimately a "point" to your self grandiose thread here, it just took a little prying to get it to the surface.

Most people can’t do fine carving, myself included ( as I stated ). That’s a fact, for good or ill.
Not sure why I earned your enrollment into an “exclusive club of snobs” though. Are there cool guys in that club?

 

[The Appalachian]

I'll refrain from being judgemental about other's work, especially if I can't do it myself.

I don't want to be part of that snob club........

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I love snob clubs, I belong to most of them.

 

[Polecat_Tom]

What is happening in this world. Is there no middle ground on any subject. It seems to me that whatever the topic is anymore, it has to become a pi$$ing match and name calling. Can't one simply respectfully disagree. When these topics turn hateful, it becomes unenjoyable kind of like watching the news.

 

[TDM]

I can do wood carvings, it's just doing relief carvings on stocks that I can't seem to do correctly. At least not yet.

 

[TDM]

What is happening in this world. Is there no middle ground on any subject. It seems to me that whatever the topic is anymore, it has to become a pi$$ing match and name calling. Can't one simply respectfully disagree. When these topics turn hateful, it becomes unenjoyable kind of like watching the news.

I think it's just the change of season coming.

 

[Polecat_Tom]

I can do wood carvings, it's just doing relief carvings on stocks that I can't seem to do correctly. At least not yet.

I am the same way. Two completely different techniques.

 

[TDM]

I am the same way. Two completely different techniques.

It truly is.

 

[Polecat_Tom]

I can do wood carvings, it's just doing relief carvings on stocks that I can't seem to do correctly. At

Plus if you totally screw up one of these carvings you are just out a log and time. Not the same when you screw up a gun stock.

 

[Wireforhire]

I have an original example of that.
This mid 19th Century percussion rifle is incised carved and chip carved behind the cheek piece in a very crude manner.
It even has a homemade copper patch box, but I consider it folk art.

Pictures Please. WZ

 

[TDM]

Plus if you totally screw up one of these carvings you are just out a log and time. Not the same when you screw up a gun stock.

Exactly!

 

[ronaldrothb49]

Are completely uncarved rifles from pre 1800 historically correct? For example, would a Kibler colonial with no carving be right, or was there a base level of carving that the kits don't have?

If you look in Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in the Golden Age Kindig lists a lot of information from Leonard Reedy's Journals. These cover a span from 1819 to 1838. He lists making a smooth rifle for $7.00, he also has several listings as made a gun for $7.00. I would think these were probably smooth rifles considering he charged $2.25 to rifle a barrel and all the ones he made from $10.00 up were listed as rifles. The majority of the rifles he made were on the lower side of the scale. A rifle at $10.00 would probably have been much plainer than the $19.00 rifle which was the top of the scale. The price variation goes from $4.62 for a shotgun to $19.00 for a rifle. He also shows 2 double rifles, 1 for $18.50 and 1 for $42.00 very few were listed on the top side of the scale.

You have to remember the rifles pictured in the books are the better examples. Plain rifles seldom show up in the books till you get into the percussion era when most everything went plainer.

 

[IanH]

You have to remember the rifles pictured in the books are the better examples. Plain rifles seldom show up in the books till you get into the percussion era when most everything went plainer.

My assumption as well. It is difficult to find really poor work in a book dedicated to only the finest surviving examples, as many books are.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I googled "flintlock stock carving images" expecting to find some really bad examples amateur stock carving. This was not the case, all the pictures were of very well executed carvings, some of them recognizable as being from some of the folks here.

 

[James Kibler]

My assumption as well. It is difficult to find really poor work in a book dedicated to only the finest surviving examples, as many books are.

Not really true. It's not about whether they are published or not, but rather if they exist. When you study these in person and don't just rely on books you'll see that most have at least a bit of decoration.

 

[Kmcmichael]

I can do wood carvings, it's just doing relief carvings on stocks that I can't seem to do correctly. At least not yet.

Holy ****! #4 looks like me…when I was young. Remove all that nasty hair from the top of his head and make the rest gray and he will be handsome.

 

[Kmcmichael]

I love snob clubs, I belong to most of them.

Would you really want to be part of a club that would have you as a member?

BTW when is the next meeting of the sarcastic old *******s club? I did not see you at the last one.