Rich13
Pilgrim
Hello everyone. My name is Rich. I am from a small litttle town called Richland. It is about 15 or so miles from Kalamazoo, MI. The true home of both Gibson guitar and Checker Cabs. If you know what a Checker cab is they were all built in Kalamazoo. Now I live North of Kalamazoo in a little farming community called Martin. I am out in the middle of thousands of acres of corn. It grows about 9' tall now. I will soon be unable to see my neighbors to the East. The tractors pulling various manure spreaders go by all day. The one with the pig manure in it is a tank with 3 big tires on each side and I bet it carries at least 3500 gallons or more of waste. It is gigantic. It is bigger than a fuel oil truck. So anyway the nice thing about living way out in the boonies is that nobody questions or complains about noise. I grew up shooting 44 caliber western type revolvers and modern weapons and hunting pretty much anything my brother and I could hunt, I currently do not own anything bp because I cannot hunt anymore due to a problem with my spinal cord. I essentially worked for about 18 years in the construction industry but I did approx. 30 years of damage to my back which was already comprimised when I was basically born. So now I am disabled which began years ago but I fought and fought and I wasn't going to give up, but about 4 years ago at 52 years I just had to give in. So I sold all my stuff except for a couple things. I cannot put 10 pounds of clothes and other items on and go out into the woods because I am no longer very agile. I sold my deer rifle and had to give up the annual trip up to the Northern part of Michigan where you can hunt with a rifle. I have gone a couple years for a couple days just to see if I can make any money playing poker and then I end up camp cooking and doing all they things everyone hates. It has been a tradition for over 30 years now so it's all worth it. I am a wood worker and I found this forum searching for information on re-staining the wood on a shotgun. It is a whole different ball game redoing the stock of a gun compared to the standard Minwax stains. After 25+ years of building various wood projects I can pretty much match a color or come really close mixing by eye with the Minwax products. But NO!!! I have to learn what I call the "Dark Side" of wood finishing now because all my knowledge of finishing wood just when poof, goodbye. I am 56 years old and I forget the stupidest things and now I have to try to wrap myself around a whole new process and products. Sorry for rambling on and on about nothing that matters to anyone. I apologize. I do some inlay work on projects depending on the build and I had a thought. Doing inlay work on the wood portion of weapons. With the right piece of equipment my shop I could reproduce essentially any design. Just food for thought. Wouldn't it be cool to pull your gun out of he case and it would be completely unique to you. There would never be 2 that looked exactly the same. Each time you got a deer or whatever you are hunting we could cut a design and add another symbol on the weapon.
Thanks
Rich
Thanks
Rich
