Still very much a work in process
Dry fitting everythingFile and sand all brass/ wood mating surfaces for smooth runout. Filed the far tip end of the tang to mate smoothly with the stocks waist, also bucked the tang screw down flush with the tang. That gives me a clean smooth runout from the breach to Comb
The lock is ideal for me! The main spring is strong, and the action is like silk! And boy, is it ever pretty!
in
The muzzle has been well crowned-coned.
The barrel is marked on on the bottom “ Kibler, GM and 1 - 70”. No laser etching telling me to use only black powder etc. Nice.
Now the only thing left to do is to take her all apart. And begin the business of carving the stock.
Still very much a work in process
Dry fitting everything
File and sand all brass/ wood mating surfaces for smooth runout.
Filed the far tip end of the tang to mate smoothly with the stocks waist,
also bucked the tang screw down flush with the tang. That gives me a clean smooth runout from the breach to Comb.
Cut in additional detail work on trigger guard. The forms haven’t changed, I just added a bit of relief. If
I’ve given a lot of thought to how to finish the stock. The A grade curly maple I have deserves nothing less.
All of these sample blocks have 3-4 coats of BLO.
tanic acid, iron nitrite. Beautiful but dark. More sanding would bring up more feature, I also experimented with ananine dyes
The yellow is a bit much, but jumps nicely.
The golden brown is my wife’s favorite, I am leaning that way myself.
The forth pix is applying a mixture of red and coal black dye, let dry, sand to almost gone, just dark endgrain, then apply the golden brown and sand lightly. Not too dark, with flashes of red, but I think I could have done a yellow top coat.
The last pix is BLO alone.
The lock is ideal for me! The main spring is strong, and the action is like silk! And boy, is it ever pretty!
The muzzle has been well crowned-coned.
The barrel is marked on on the bottom “ Kibler, GM and 1 - 70”. No laser etching telling me to use only black powder etc. Nice.
Now the only thing left to do is to take her all apart. And begin the business of carving the stock.
File and sand all brass/ wood mating surfaces for smooth runout.
Filed the far tip end of the tang to mate smoothly with the stocks waist,
also bucked the tang screw down flush with the tang. That gives me a clean smooth runout from the breach to Comb.
Cut in additional detail work on trigger guard. The forms haven’t changed, I just added a bit of relief. If
I’ve given a lot of thought to how to finish the stock. The A grade curly maple I have deserves nothing less.
All of these sample blocks have 3-4 coats of BLO.
tanic acid, iron nitrite. Beautiful but dark. More sanding would bring up more feature, I also experimented with ananine dyes
The yellow is a bit much, but jumps nicely.
The golden brown is my wife’s favorite, I am leaning that way myself.
The forth pix is applying a mixture of red and coal black dye, let dry, sand to almost gone, just dark endgrain, then apply the golden brown and sand lightly. Not too dark, with flashes of red, but I think I could have done a yellow top coat.
The last pix is BLO alone.
The lock is ideal for me! The main spring is strong, and the action is like silk! And boy, is it ever pretty!
The muzzle has been well crowned-coned.
The barrel is marked on on the bottom “ Kibler, GM and 1 - 70”. No laser etching telling me to use only black powder etc. Nice.
Now the only thing left to do is to take her all apart. And begin the business of carving the stock.
Dry fitting everythingFile and sand all brass/ wood mating surfaces for smooth runout. Filed the far tip end of the tang to mate smoothly with the stocks waist, also bucked the tang screw down flush with the tang. That gives me a clean smooth runout from the breach to Comb
The lock is ideal for me! The main spring is strong, and the action is like silk! And boy, is it ever pretty!
in
The muzzle has been well crowned-coned.
The barrel is marked on on the bottom “ Kibler, GM and 1 - 70”. No laser etching telling me to use only black powder etc. Nice.
Now the only thing left to do is to take her all apart. And begin the business of carving the stock.
Still very much a work in process
Dry fitting everything
File and sand all brass/ wood mating surfaces for smooth runout.
Filed the far tip end of the tang to mate smoothly with the stocks waist,
also bucked the tang screw down flush with the tang. That gives me a clean smooth runout from the breach to Comb.
Cut in additional detail work on trigger guard. The forms haven’t changed, I just added a bit of relief. If
I’ve given a lot of thought to how to finish the stock. The A grade curly maple I have deserves nothing less.
All of these sample blocks have 3-4 coats of BLO.
tanic acid, iron nitrite. Beautiful but dark. More sanding would bring up more feature, I also experimented with ananine dyes
The yellow is a bit much, but jumps nicely.
The golden brown is my wife’s favorite, I am leaning that way myself.
The forth pix is applying a mixture of red and coal black dye, let dry, sand to almost gone, just dark endgrain, then apply the golden brown and sand lightly. Not too dark, with flashes of red, but I think I could have done a yellow top coat.
The last pix is BLO alone.
The lock is ideal for me! The main spring is strong, and the action is like silk! And boy, is it ever pretty!
The muzzle has been well crowned-coned.
The barrel is marked on on the bottom “ Kibler, GM and 1 - 70”. No laser etching telling me to use only black powder etc. Nice.
Now the only thing left to do is to take her all apart. And begin the business of carving the stock.
File and sand all brass/ wood mating surfaces for smooth runout.
Filed the far tip end of the tang to mate smoothly with the stocks waist,
also bucked the tang screw down flush with the tang. That gives me a clean smooth runout from the breach to Comb.
Cut in additional detail work on trigger guard. The forms haven’t changed, I just added a bit of relief. If
I’ve given a lot of thought to how to finish the stock. The A grade curly maple I have deserves nothing less.
All of these sample blocks have 3-4 coats of BLO.
tanic acid, iron nitrite. Beautiful but dark. More sanding would bring up more feature, I also experimented with ananine dyes
The yellow is a bit much, but jumps nicely.
The golden brown is my wife’s favorite, I am leaning that way myself.
The forth pix is applying a mixture of red and coal black dye, let dry, sand to almost gone, just dark endgrain, then apply the golden brown and sand lightly. Not too dark, with flashes of red, but I think I could have done a yellow top coat.
The last pix is BLO alone.
The lock is ideal for me! The main spring is strong, and the action is like silk! And boy, is it ever pretty!
The muzzle has been well crowned-coned.
The barrel is marked on on the bottom “ Kibler, GM and 1 - 70”. No laser etching telling me to use only black powder etc. Nice.
Now the only thing left to do is to take her all apart. And begin the business of carving the stock.
