What does everyone do with their builds

[wheelockhunter]

Just wondering, do some of you guy's build more than what you can do with? Do you keep them, sell them give them away to friends family? I wondering what will happen when I start lol.

 

[soggy]

:: Are you refering to firearms or all types of accouterments? I have built three rifles and still own them all, and hope to until I can no longer use them. As far as other gear I usually put the small stuff on the table at blanket shoots. When I attend a rondezvous of another club I always give a prize such as a chest or something else that I have made. The B/P club that I belong to requires along with a nominal membership fee the members must submit a prize for the annual vous. For this I usually build a large chest . This is the one that I built last year

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My wife asked me how many knives I owned the other day. She said I looked like a deer in the headlights! Knives are something I make on a rainey day to keep from being bored! How would I know how to find all of my knives? And about the time I thought I had counted all of them she'd find another box full under the workbench.

We're talking hand forged blades and bone and antler handles here, not those $2.29 K-mart mark down specials either!

Same way with guns. Just about the time I think I've found all of them I discover another closet I forgot was there. I gave a couple to my son, couple to each of the stepsons, the daughter has one or two and so does the grandson, Grandaughter got a .40 for her first birthday. The wife has a rifle and a smoothie and a couple of pistols.

My reenactment clothes and gear stay packed and I can be ready to camp in an hour or so, but it takes me a couple of days to decide which guns and cutlery to get ready for a trip!

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[Zonie]

A person can never have too many fine guns, Ah says! :front:

 

[rich pierce]

I got into it in the mid-70's till the mid-80's and then had to take a break for career development- am now back into this fun stuff, hope to do more.
I build guns; that's what I like best. At first I helped friends put together cheap kits when they had problems. Then I built a kit gun for myself. Just one, a percussion halfstock plains rifle. Then I built a couple of J&S Hawkens from scratch and sold them on consignment. Then I had enough money to buy more parts for guns for myself. And so on and so on. During that first period I built about 8 guns, kept 4 in the family, sold the rest. Plus helped friends do 3 scratch builds.

Now I'm doing the same. I finished a gun I wanted for myself for a long time this year and have bought parts for two I'll sell on consignment. Then I'll have enough to pay the costs for those 3 guns and another. So I can afford to keep building all the specific guns I seem to need to build.

 

[Gary]

Stockpiling flintlocks will give us an edge in WW III. Beats sticks & stones! :what: