Tandem gun build (56k death)

[Cowboy45j]

Well you guys were right. After I built the pistol for my dad for fathers day, the bug just kept bitin'. So here are some pics from Hono Lane and I with our tandem gun build in the new man room.
Here is the rifle in the box

Filing

Hondo's serious face with the dremel

Sanding

Our inspirational poster

Me working on the pistol stock

A little wider view of the man room and work bench

The man room mascot

More to come as we progress.

 

[BrownBear]

That's what it's all about!

 

[mazo kid]

Thanks for sharing. You just gotta keep scratching that itch!! Emery

 

[Cosmoline]

Having just spent the better part of every evening and weekend day for the past two weeks on my smooth rifle build I have to say I can't imagine buying a completed firearm again. It's been incredibly irritating at times and even painful (when I drove a chisel into my finger for example), but even though my results are far from perfect they're *mine.* I've owned hundreds of firearms of all types, but this is the first one that's really truly mine. And there are *not* many like it. There's only one like it. The learning curve sure is steep though, esp. for someone who hasn't done this sort of thing before. The most I did before this was dovetail a few sights and spruce up old stocks. This was a whole different kettle of linseed oil.

 

[Old40Rod]

Nice, spacious man room... I have the "space at the end of the utility room" man room.

:bow:

 

[MSW]

ayup, what that Cosmoline fellah said!

 

[dodgecummins01]

:grin: Scratch that itch!! That’s how I started, by building kits also. Just wait until you get the itch to build one from a box of parts and a block of wood! That’s when the fun begins!!! From there it’s all up hill!!!!

 

[Birddog6]

Cosmoline, Somewhere somehow I eventually end up bleeding on every dang one of them, like it just has to happen to complete the rifle........... :redface: Last time I was working on the mower & cut my hand, I just went to the workshop & wiped blood on the stock to christen it & just got it out of the way right off before I started on it............ :grin: :bull:

 

[rafterob]

Isn't a real Man room supposed to have a Makita poster or two?

 

[Cowboy45j]

The man room was reclaimed out of the Tack room up at the Barn. It's still a work in progress, but we like it.

 

[st_lgarret01]

FYI

that saddle in the background of the picure of jr is a original handmade Billy Cook saddle from the 1950's, won by our friend Clyde Frost (Lane Frost's dad). its a best all-around cowboy saddle he won at the tennesee valley state fair in '51 i think, and i've been restoring/cleaning it to give it back to him.

 

[Cowboy45j]

Here are some more pictures

The cheap case hardening on the lock came off after it got hit a few times with some sandpaper during the wood to metal fitting process so Hondo decided to try out some 44-40 blue on it, I like it

Here is Hondo Bluing the tang

Degreasing

This stuff is Magic

Magic stuff working

The Library

Here is a better picture of the trophy saddle

 

[Cowboy45j]

Here's a picture of the pistol so far

 

[qtrhrs7]

Josey and "Slow Hand". Now you need Stevie Ray! :thumbsup:

 

[Cowboy45j]

Any of you guys use the 44/40 blue? I was thinking of using it on the brass fittings on the pistol to take them to black. I tested it on the end of one of the ramrod thimbles and I really like the way it looked, but I was wondering if any of you had experience with longevity. Will the brass wear back through?

 

[paulvallandigham]

Why would you use bluing compound, which costs money, when a dirty cleaning patch rubbed on the brass instantly turns it black???

 

[Cowboy45j]

But will it turn it as black. I don't want a tarnished brass look, I'm going for more of a blued steel look.

 

[paulvallandigham]

Short of some of the commercial paint products, I don't know any acid that will turn the brass uniformly BLACK. The Sulfur Dioxide in black powder makes brass fairly black. Repeated applications make it more evenly dark, if the ferrule on my ramrod is any kind of test.

 

[Cowboy45j]

Here are a few more pics of us shooting the gun.

See if anyone is paying attention here

These were dubbed "the holy triumvirate" for the day

The bottom two are the guns from this build.