What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Century to late]

I know all you cva haters are gonna cringe. I figured a way to make the stock joint stronger and better looking. The Japanese use this on some black powder guns. Just cleaning up piles of odds and ends.makes for a rock solid two piece stock. The dimples add look and hold it in place better the steel tube is about 4" and is inlet into the ramrod tube. More on this scrap parts build next week.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Going to make smoke today that isn't from my campfire.

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let the smoke roll my friend. good luck

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

One of the biggest problems of our country. People refusing to mention God.

u are so right

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

I know all you cva haters are gonna cringe. I figured a way to make the stock joint stronger and better looking. The Japanese use this on some black powder guns. Just cleaning up piles of odds and ends.makes for a rock solid two piece stock. The dimples add look and hold it in place better the steel tube is about 4" and is inlet into the ramrod tube. More on this scrap parts build next week.

one thing for sure.it looks like you know what you are doing.thanks for sharing friend

 

[bpd303]

One of the biggest problems of our country. People refusing to mention God.

True, however there is a time and place for everything and the forum rules state what I quoted and by violating the rules gets threads locked or deleted.

 

[IanH]

Ianh, is that cherry? going to be stunning done whatever the wood!

Yes, very soft, brittle, chippy, open-grained cherry from a well-nourished and fast grown tree. The grain contrast is striking and I really, really wanted to stain it with lye. Jim gave me a couple of scraps that appear from the same tree or board since this was a blem stock with breakouts and I got great colors on them from the lye and vinegar treatment. However....this cherry is so porous that it kept turning the finish into linseed soap because no matter how I tried I couldn't get all the lye neutralized. I tried lighter and weaker applications and more vinegar, even switched to very dilute hydrochloric acid and all that did was reverse the stain color. I finally gave up and decided just to finish it with drying oil and let it do its thing.

 

[Century to late]

Yes, very soft, brittle, chippy, open-grained cherry from a well-nourished and fast grown tree. The grain contrast is striking and I really, really wanted to stain it with lye. Jim gave me a couple of scraps that appear from the same tree or board since this was a blem stock with breakouts and I got great colors on them from the lye and vinegar treatment. However....this cherry is so porous that it kept turning the finish into linseed soap because no matter how I tried I couldn't get all the lye neutralized. I tried lighter and weaker applications and more vinegar, even switched to very dilute hydrochloric acid and all that did was reverse the stain color. I finally gave up and decided just to finish it with drying oil and let it do its thing.

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Gonna need a red blinking lite on the tip of that. Ya just let the oil do its thing cherry is so amazing. I always wanted to do a time lapse on how it warms up.

 

[IanH]

Gonna need a red blinking lite on the tip of that. Ya just let the oil do its thing cherry is so amazing. I always wanted to do a time lapse on how it warms up.

That's funny... that photo was taken next to a hangar door facing the runway at an airport, and I may have violated some airport obstruction rules as long as it is.

Here's what my native, dense, hard cherry looks like with a light lye wipe and vinegar temper:

 

[Century to late]

That's funny... that photo was taken next to a hangar door facing the runway at an airport, and I may have violated some airport obstruction rules as long as it is.

Here's what my native, dense, hard cherry looks like with a light lye wipe and vinegar temper:

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Oh my!! That's beautiful. That color is what that style calls for.

 

[FVRago]

Sat around with an old friend talking about how he got me back into muzzleloaders and hunting deer with them. Also got a new project for the spring.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Yes, very soft, brittle, chippy, open-grained cherry from a well-nourished and fast grown tree. The grain contrast is striking and I really, really wanted to stain it with lye. Jim gave me a couple of scraps that appear from the same tree or board since this was a blem stock with breakouts and I got great colors on them from the lye and vinegar treatment. However....this cherry is so porous that it kept turning the finish into linseed soap because no matter how I tried I couldn't get all the lye neutralized. I tried lighter and weaker applications and more vinegar, even switched to very dilute hydrochloric acid and all that did was reverse the stain color. I finally gave up and decided just to finish it with drying oil and let it do its thing.

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looks good

 

[deerstalkert]

That's funny... that photo was taken next to a hangar door facing the runway at an airport, and I may have violated some airport obstruction rules as long as it is.

Here's what my native, dense, hard cherry looks like with a light lye wipe and vinegar temper:

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Nice! my cherry stock has crotch wood at the butt and softer forward. that butt wood is rock hard.
looks to be a Rice barrel there Ianh.

 

[IanH]

looks good

It's hard to screw up a Kibler Woodsrunner. I'm sure it has been and will be done, but so far I don't think I have.

Nice! my cherry stock has crotch wood at the butt and softer forward. that butt wood is rock hard.
looks to be a Rice barrel there Ianh.

I made a solid wood jewelry box for my wife years ago from some feathercrotch cherry. It's heart shaped and I centered it in the crotch grain to catch the pattern. Cut a profile, sectioned it, milled out the cavities with integral partitions, and the underside of the lid. It warped a little but that grain and color is like no other.

Not a rice barrel. It's a an unchambered, unfinished 24-gauge cartridge Belgian double gun blank that I finished out on my lathe and milled the octagon, breeched, and reamed. RobM uses a lot of them for his smaller trade guns.

 

[deerstalkert]

It's hard to screw up a Kibler Woodsrunner. I'm sure it has been and will be done, but so far I don't think I have.


I made a solid wood jewelry box for my wife years ago from some feathercrotch cherry. It's heart shaped and I centered it in the crotch grain to catch the pattern. Cut a profile, sectioned it, milled out the cavities with integral partitions, and the underside of the lid. It warped a little but that grain and color is like no other.

Not a rice barrel. It's a an unchambered, unfinished 24-gauge cartridge Belgian double gun blank that I finished out on my lathe and milled the octagon, breeched, and reamed. RobM uses a lot of them for his smaller trade guns.

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i can see the difference now. nice looking barrel!

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Not doctoral, doctrinal. I have graduate degree in ministry and church planting and I passed the final verbal defense of doctrine for ordination. From a US Army stacker of bodies to saving souls! What a leap!

Congrats to you. Now u can let the smoke roll

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

That's funny... that photo was taken next to a hangar door facing the runway at an airport, and I may have violated some airport obstruction rules as long as it is.

Here's what my native, dense, hard cherry looks like with a light lye wipe and vinegar temper:

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Thats very nice.

 

[oldschoolhunter55]

Going to make smoke today that isn't from my campfire.

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Hey. Just wanted to check in on you.how is everything going?

 

[DCAN]

First coat of stain on the Colonial. Tomorrow I adjust color and maybe try AF over the stain with a heavy rub back. Trying to get the curl to stand out but maintain a honey/amber background.

 

[LANEY REECE]

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We do not discuss God or Religion, I would hate to see this thread disappear, like the Jokes threads have. Can we use a little discretion please.

THATs a shame.

 

[Century to late]

First coat of stain on the Colonial. Tomorrow I adjust color and maybe try AF over the stain with a heavy rub back. Trying to get the curl to stand out but maintain a honey/amber background.

Dang thats nice!