Tony, your blog is a wonderful chronicle of your efforts and has in part, resurrected my interest in an old project of my own.
9 years ago or so, I began getting headaches from reading this and other bbs'. It took a while to figure out what the problem was. With the help my girlfriend at the time we discovered.... I was rolling my eyes so much and so frequently at all the "proper" this, "correct" that, and all the drippy crap in-between that my eye rolling was causing the headaches. A change in careers and hunting patterns about the same time made it easy to leave all the double gun boards behind.
I don't notice many of the "old gang" here any longer I'm sure some have died but, suspect as many have just grown weary of all the "expertness" that gets thrown about like rose petals at a wedding every time a picture is posted or a fix is proposed.
It takes some stones to put an action a furnace or take a file to a set of 100 year old barrels. The difference between you and most on this site is you've done both while they've only read about it. Don't give their words any weight.
Jim
