inlay practice

[Ames]

That said, taking pictures and then blowing them up on the computer screen really helps find flaws.

Yep. Been there. Scrimshawed a horn with my opti-visor only to find out I misspelled a name. You cant laugh at yourself hard enough some days.

 

[dave_person]

I prefer silver wire inlay anybody do this
Feltwad

Hi Feltwad,
Yes, I do a lot of wire inlay when my objective requires it. Some is very simple and some elaborate depending on my objectives.

dave

 

[pooch156]

Would love to see a tutorial on installing wire inlay. Where can I find one?

 

[dave_person]

Hi,
Learn from one of the best. Buy his book. Scroll down to his tutorial books.
https://davidpriceflintlocks.com/david-price-books/
dave

 

[jerrywh]

People here and on other forums as well ask for criticism then when they get what they asked for, people resent it.
Lying to people about their mistakes does more harm and is not helping anybody.
If you don't want to hear the truth don't ask.
David Price has the best book on inlays.

 

[ApprenticeBuilder]

People here and on other forums as well ask for criticism then when they get what they asked for, people resent it.
Lying to people about their mistakes does more harm and is not helping anybody.
If you don't want to hear the truth don't ask.

Goes all the way back to the phrase, "be careful what you ask for because you just might get it"

 

[jerrywh]

Dave person is one of the best wire men around Dave price, myself and mark Silver are others. Below are some of mine. At one time Mark Silver was the best in the world in my opinion.

 

[ApprenticeBuilder]

Wire was more prevalent in Europe, not a lot (if any) of examples of it in the colonies,

Having been away from the books for a few years this was my honest opinion most likely due to the fact that I am not a fan of wire inlay, after dusting them off recently to do some research I rediscovered that there were several builders back in the day that practiced wire inlay. Just wanted to clear that up.

 

[Vaino]

Someone mentioned breech plugs and the prep before inletting them. Here's my take on ensuring that my guns don't have the dreaded breech plug "hump" behind the breech. The first thing I do is to file off the large radius at the junction of the bolster and tang and after also filing steel off the back of the bolster and also an angle to just allow room for the copper shims and wrench when unscrewing the breech plug. The sides of the bolster also have angles.

I then use a radius needle file and file a short distance into the bolster ,just below the tang. This allows the tang to be bent closer to the bbl breech.

The top of the tang radius is started approx. 1" up the bbl and seeing I use swamped bbls, the top bbl flat becomes wider so I file the oblique flats to narrow the top flat so it's the same width as the tang. In other words, I "fake" the oblique flats which when done isn't noticeable.

The breech plug shown has all the features as stated above. The lock area photo shows a tang that has a nice curve into the wrist.,,,,Fred

 

[shootrj2003]

I am building a rifle and learning inlays some have been good -not great- but acceptable ,a couple,horrible ,wedge plates ,two nice on the left,two on the right one horrible,one just acceptable there is not much one can do to fix these things except maybe, one day,make 4 bigger wedge plates and redo,the more you try to fix these things ,they get worse,walk away come back later and thank god it’s my gun and practice perfecting your skills.at least I have one nice side for pics! I have made and corrected a ton of mistakes on this rifle and I am sure a judge would pick it to bits but it looks to me like it will be a nice shooting machine,one thing is you can correct many things but not an inlay,it is what it is, go slow,patience,use exacto knives,not woodcarving knives make several light cuts,have light lots of it and magnifiers and remember you will always see your mistakes forever and others may not even notice once.