hey every body ! ! !

[bob1961]

hey every body i'm about 50% into a project....does everyone know the T/C hawken patch box....well my project i'm going for right now is taking the patch box door off of the main body of it....and i have this piece of white wood that about 2.25" wide 3/4" thick and 20" long....not sure if it's maple or popular....it's heavy and tight grained....so far i'm done with enlarging the patch box hole in the stock to match with the enlarged hole of the patch box plate minus the door....and next i need to cut out the pattern in the white wood a little larger then the hole i'm putting it into....then when the wood is in the stock and i get them sanded down to match each....the end product is the dark walnut stock with the brass patch box and the white wood in the hole where the door is suposed to be....then in the white wood i'll have my k carved into the middle of it cause it's my first letter of my last name....and has anyone seen this type of inlay before....i clicked on the poll icon at the start of this post but not sure if that's all i gotsa do....waiting for all of your wisdom to come my way to enrich my life with ::......................bob

 

[musketman]

I can help you on the wood:

Unstained poplar wood will have greenish streaks in it as seen below, you might say it's a poplar choise... :haha: :haha: :haha:

I crack me up... ahem.

i clicked on the poll icon at the start of this post but not sure if that's all i gotsa do....

Only Claude and the moderators are permitted to conduct polls with this style of forum format...

 

[bob1961]

this one is the patch box that i'm going to put some white wood in the middle to make it an inlay....

i'm also thinking about changing the shape of the patch box opening so it is a little more rounded....also this is a pic of that wood....

so musketman does this look like anything you might know of....it is hard and dense i'm pretty sure it's not white oak....

 

[musketman]

The green tint makes me think it's poplar, but I'll check some other types and get back to you on it...

 

[musketman]

Here is white oak, no greenish tint here...

 

[cayugad]

That sure looks like popular or some call it white aspen to me. We have a lot of it in Northern Wisconsin. We also call it gopher wood. Because if you burn it in the wood stove you throw in a chunk and go-fer some more. ::

It is a nice tight grained wood, but make sure you put a good sealer on it if it is going to spend anytime outside or where it might be damp.

It will take a stain nice, and actually is a strong wood. I have used it to make book shelves and gun racks out of.

 

[Zonie]

Wal, jus don go a puttin no unpopular wood in thar!! At's what ole Zonie says!
Har,har,har, hee, hee, hee :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

 

[bob1961]

here's thur pics i said wasa comin....the new rounded shape i talked bout next to the old hole....

all i have to do now is tommorrow at my friends house and his bandsaw is cut out the new shape in my white wood....

 

[musketman]

I like the looks of the new hole shape...

You do very nice work...

 

[Stumpkiller]

Boy. I'm glad you don't work in our woodshop! You marked the center of the maple (poplar?) piece for cutting the inlay instead of either end. ::

Looking good.

 

[bob1961]

it's the only piece i have and it cost me 0.00....besides that it the best part of the grain right there....the rest will be made into more inlays anyway...........bob

 

[musketman]

the rest will be made into more inlays anyway...........bob

Or a matching knife handle and bullet/ball loading block...

 

[bob1961]

the rest will be made into more inlays anyway...........bob

Or a matching knife handle and bullet/ball loading block...

dang nabbit thar ya goin gifin mein mor stuffin ta[url] do....isin[/url] havin a nuff troblin geetting allin me otherin stuffin donne..................bob

 

[Zonie]

the rest will be made into more inlays anyway...........bob

Or a matching knife handle and bullet/ball loading block...

dang nabbit thar ya goin gifin mein mor stuffin ta[url] do....isin[/url] havin a nuff troblin geetting allin me otherin stuffin donne..................bob

Now thats tha furst thang ye has said what Ah could unnerstan!
Air may be hope fer ye yet, iffen ye gets ta talkin mi kind O talk :: ::.

 

[bob1961]

the rest will be made into more inlays anyway...........bob

Or a matching knife handle and bullet/ball loading block...

dang nabbit thar ya goin gifin mein mor stuffin ta[url] do....isin[/url] havin a nuff troblin geetting allin me otherin stuffin donne..................bob

Now thats tha furst thang ye has said what Ah could unnerstan!
Air may be hope fer ye yet, iffen ye gets ta talkin mi kind O talk :: ::.

ya like that huh ::....it took me 45 min to compose it :haha:....and had the hardest time in the spell checker :shocking:................bob

 

[bob1961]

i finaly got to my friends house and to his band saw.....he was home :shocking:....tommorrow i'll have more pics to show....i epoxied the popular in the stock brought the pop down to just above the walnut with a block plane.....then epoxied the brass into the stock....i'm not going to be removing it....i'm going to just sand over it to level out the side of the stock, brass and popular to match each other.....................................bob

 

[shmrck1]

Bob
I know of what little i know about you that whatever
you decide to do will turn out great. Good luck.
I am snake-eyes

 

[bob1961]

thanks....new pics of it later tonight....................bob

 

[bob1961]

hey musketman you talk me into it....

and here is my T/C stock with the inlay done but not sanded....

then sanded....

just have to get the hardware for it now....barrel, tang, butt plate, triggers and guard, nose cap, wedge pin and plates and screws.....i'm thinking of putting the new golden dollar like you said you wanted to do musketman in the popular inlay.....for now till i get the hardware for this project it'll be on the back burner for awhile.............................bob

 

[musketman]

hey musketman you talk me into it....

Nice blocks Bob, ya know you can also carve scrolls into the blocks to match the stock...

Ooooooooo, that would be nice...