Hickory ram rods

[TC Tommy]

Thank you Notchy Bob.

 

[Rob M.]

Well put Bob ... Funny ....I was getting ramrod blanks from TOTW then I got a couple things from Log Cabin a year later and included some ramrods blanks . I was shocked ... I thought that I was getting wholesale price as the blanks were so much cheaper that Track ...I was just up st Log Cabin a month ago ...nope , not wholesale just damn inexpensive ...and NICE grain in them too !

 

[Rob M.]

I have a hickory rod from TOTW .... I like it but I really want it to match my Pedersoli... I'm no wood worker so....does anyone know what I should do to make it happen? I'm
Capable of doing it, just don't know what "it" is

Do you get them to round using a rasp or do you use some other method. I need to make one for my smoothbore project and thought I’d start with my dowel maker for arrows then narrow it from there with a rasp.

Rasp to rough shape files to clean rasp marks ....

 

[Eric Krewson]

An arrow shaft maker friend tried his hand a turning ramrods on his 50K arrow shaft machines, he didn't have the straightest stock to start with so his ramrods had some runout. He was a bit of perfectionist and gave up on turning ramrods, he gave me a bundle of 48 of his test ramrods. Some were beyond hope, but the rest had some clean, runout free, useable parts, especially for shorter rods like a TC. I gave them away by the handfuls to my M/L friends, before long I only had 5 or 6 of them left, I wish I had kept more.

Fortunately, I heard of Dan Putz and his outstanding ramrods before his passing and bought enough blanks to last me a lifetime, at my advanced age this is only 5 or 6.

In 50 years of black powder shooting, I have never broken a ramrod, some of them that came with my earlier TCs were pitiful by today's standards, I didn't know good from bad back then, but they never broke.

 

[waksupi]

I have a hickory rod from TOTW .... I like it but I really want it to match my Pedersoli... I'm no wood worker so....does anyone know what I should do to make it happen? I'm
Capable of doing it, just don't know what "it" is

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