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High Rick- the Great Pinyone here- you did a great job, I mean it looks real aged. You are good to make it right the first time. It looks like an expensive rifle to me. Also great pictures. I have aged long rifles like that and most say how old is it. Congratulations on a job well done- one more thing- is that a Ken Scott pouch? and who made the horn? the whole set is beautiful!!! The Great Pinyone
 
The only thing I would do is blend it by feathering the edges of the darker color.
 
The bag was made by Alex Mitchell and the horn was by Elk killer if I remember right
 
Ok my bad wrong horn..I got the horn in a trade and havent a clue who made it
 
:youcrazy: :shake: :shake: that was a nice looking trade gun i don't understand why anyone would want a gun that looks beat up and abused like that --jmo :idunno:
 
I tried several times to sell it and nobody was interested in it..I aged it and as soon as I posted pics it sold right away..Some like the aged look..
 
Passed down from an ancestor Mike? Or did you get it at a yard sale?

:rotf:

Kidding of course, it is beautiful, you do incredible work, keep it up. You and Eric Kettenburg are the best out there.
 
The Bess looks very well used..I like that look on a few style of guns..I like how the canoe rifle came out with the used and abused look also..
 
rick meant no disrespect if that is your thing the so be it what i was trying to say was simple if you lived in 1760 would you have a 200yr old weapon i was not referring to the finish you did an excellent job sorry if i offended you :surrender:
 
trucker said:
rick meant no disrespect if that is your thing the so be it what i was trying to say was simple if you lived in 1760 would you have a 200yr old weapon i was not referring to the finish you did an excellent job sorry if i offended you :surrender:
Just to give you an idea of longevity on the frontier. Carolina guns were expected to last two years in the hands of natives before they were rendered useless. I suspect they looked pretty beat up in short order. :v
 
I wasnt offended..If you look close at the before pics the rifle doesnt look right with a heavily aged barrel and a shiney new stock..Looked more like a rusty pipe in a piece of wood..I`m really not into heavily aged finishes but I had to do something to even the looks of the rifle out..
 
trucker said:
rick meant no disrespect if that is your thing the so be it what i was trying to say was simple if you lived in 1760 would you have a 200yr old weapon i was not referring to the finish you did an excellent job sorry if i offended you :surrender:
Also keep in mind, the greater percentage of folks who shoot ML's don't play the fantasy game of reenactment, so how old there gun looks or doesn't look isn't an issue.
 
Wow Mike...You might get toasted on the fantasy remark but I do agree with you..
 
I cannot understand whay as soon as one adds some patina to a gun it automaticaly looks 200+ years old, :hmm: not everyone had new guns in the past and many would have had guns with a few to many years of use, as early 1700 guns were convertd to caplock, I think Mikes guns look good and represnt guns that have been in use for a while, what I see as ridiculus is a guy doing a 1770 perona with a brite and shiney 1730 fusil because it would not be "honest" to age it :bull: We simply do not know what kind of appearance a random sampling of guns would have looked like back then so anyones interpretation is as good as anothers, I recall some 30/30's in hunting camp years ago with most of the blue gone and the finish pretty thing and some dings on the stocks, if i were to reenact a 1965 deer camp there would likely be old and new guns, but for anyone to think they can say that a gun looks 200 years old because it was not made to look brand new is dumb, offense intended.
 
RickD said:
Wow Mike...You might get toasted on the fantasy remark but I do agree with you..
Hey, I used to do the fantasy thing too, just got tired of sleeping on the ground.....and I started building guns for a living which leaves me no time for anything like that anymore. Otherwise I'd be back to 18th century with out hesitation. :v
I have also found that it is far easier to sell an aged gun than one that looks brand new. Just responding to my customers wants is all. :grin:
 
TG, I have a Browning A5 Light 12 Automatic Shotgun that my Dad gave me for my 16th birthday. That was a loong time ago. It is the only modern gun I hunt or shoot skeet or trap with (I have two barrels for it). It still has 98% of the bluing on it. I took it to a Trap shoot a few years ago and other shooters were asking if I had had it reblued and refinished. All I do to it is wipe off the sweat at the end of the day and reoil the metal.

The reason I'm saying all this is that a 50 year old gun can look like new. It is rare today and it was probably rare back then but it can happen. My A5 doesn't get used a lot anymore, but it has not been a closet queen in any sense of the word.

Many Klatch
 
In the same line: I have a family heirloom M1906 winchester made in the 20's that has browned out and is all bumped and chipped up with no finish left and the rifling shot out of it. I retired it to the closet in about 1980, so there's 50 years of use that pretty well wore a gun out by two generations of boys, my Dad and myself, and it wasn't frontier use either. All depends on what the gun is used for I suppose.
 


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