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SKB, are you going to show a picture of that Greener finished? I Have been waiting since October. Pete
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I'm slow but it is getting there.
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I'm certainly looking forward to seeing also.
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Me too....
I'm sure it will be Festivus dAy.
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Steve.... so who did you get to do the restoration?
LOLOLOL just kidding. Thought I’d get it in before jOe or Keith did.
It looks very nice Steve!
Last edited by battle; 01/11/21 07:28 PM.
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Looks good Steve. I wish you would do a mullered border on that checkering though. Really sets it off. Would be tough duty on that side panel though! JR
Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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Per the clients request, I stocked this gun as close to the original as possible, except a very minor change to LOP.
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Well, Steve, that doesn't leave you much room for an encore. Nice.
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Beautifully done, Steve. The owner should be pleased and proud.
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Beautifully done, Steve. The owner should be pleased and proud. He is. He is indeed.
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Neat chequering , it’s great to see these old guns being given a new lease of life ,well done
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Beautiful Work, Nicely done. Pete
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Looks good Steve. I wish you would do a mullered border on that checkering though. Really sets it off. Would be tough duty on that side panel though! JR John, if I'm not mistaken the mullered border would hide over-runs. The checkering that Steve did is what is found on higher grade guns and only the best checkers worked on these guns and did not use a border.
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Looks good Steve. I wish you would do a mullered border on that checkering though. Really sets it off. Would be tough duty on that side panel though! JR John, if I'm not mistaken the mullered border would hide over-runs. The checkering that Steve did is what is found on higher grade guns and only the best checkers worked on these guns and did not use a border. That's conventional thinking aimed at amateurs who can't checker well. Certainly, a border can hide careless overruns, but that's not the purpose of a well-done border. Most of these Prussian Daly guns had a line border. Some had a slightly mullered border. Most fine British guns have beautifully done mullered borders that set off the checkering and are beautiful in themselves. I just think they add to the finished product, like a nice frame on an oil painting. JR
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Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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Steve, Beautiful job and very well done! Karl
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Excellent work Steve, nice and "crisp panels" Dennis
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That is a beautiful stock. Naysayers be damned.
The proportions are nice, the lines are nice, the layout is good, the finish is a little thin, but even, the colors are good, you would have to go a long way to find another one as nice.
Out there doing it best I can.
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It wasn't jOe who told us that Steve farms out a lot of the work that is done on his/her customers guns. Stevie admitted doing that, and defended his/her practice of subcontracting gun work out to others. He/she made the excuse that it made better sense.to utilize other people to do mundane and time consuming work like checkering.
That was why I asked who really did the work on this Greener stock. I noticed that Stevie never gives proper attribution to the subcontractors used when farming out jobs. I felt that would be the right thing to do. And some folks might just wish to avoid the middle-man or middle/woman.
How would it look if I bought a blank, and then had someone run it through a duplicator, and then had someone else do the fine inletting and final shaping, and then had someone else sand, fill pores, and apply finish, and then paid someone else to checker it???... Then, after all that... post some pictures of the stocking job I had just completed??? I would be no different than a general contractor who calls himself a home builder, but never touches a hammer.
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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And here are a few pictures of it in progress in case you missed it on the professional forum. Brent took a nasty fall, broke the stock and both tangs in the process: I repaired the tang by TIG welding on a new portion and filing it up to match the original, the tang was then tapped to the proper BA thread pitch. Fresh of the shop built pantograph after I built up the original stock as a pattern. The original had been broken several times in the past and the wrist was under sized so bondo was used to get the proper pattern shape. I left a buit extra inside when running the machine for the inletting All headed up, way more work than most A&D guns Getting ready to mark and drill the top tang screw hole Drilling to hole on my Haas Mill A grub screw is used in inletting so as to not damage the original Applying the red oil after shaping and sanding And ready for a few final coats of oil, the new tang screw needs to be engraved and then it is ready to go home. A challenging project and one which I enjoyed. [img] https://i.imgur.com/6xi6O22l.jpg[/img]
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And here are a few pictures of it in progress in case you missed it on the professional forum. Brent took a nasty fall, broke the stock and both tangs in the process: Even jOe Biden wouldn't have recommended repairing that....
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Wonderful save Thank you for sharing Mike
USAF RET 1971-95
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Looks great Steve! Thanks for sharing.
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Wonderful craftsmanship...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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That's a nice Greener. Nicer now than before Brent busted the stock. Good repair work...Geo
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