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Eric Krewson:
The very last thing I need to do prior to assembly is browning the barrel. Today it was endless sanding on the barrel flats to get rid of any file marks. J Dub gave us a really good heads up on some great sandpaper that was on sale, I used a bunch of it today. It rained today, the barrel is coated with LMF and rusting under my archery target roof outside in the humidity.
I also put another coat of finish on my stock, that makes two and it looks like 5 or 6 more will be needed.
Eric Krewson:
Hiding shims, strange how the camera picks up everything, in person these shims don't hardly show.
First barrel rusting, one night out in the weather.
The rust carded off, one more coat of LMF and back outside for the night;
Mike Yancey:
I'm excited to see it all put together!!!
Eric Krewson:
Done with barrel browning, rear sight is installed but where is the front sight? I found a brass one in my tackle box of parts, it might have come with the kit, I don't like a brass sight on a deeply browned barrel. Everything is done, when I round up a front sight it will be time to shoot.
I used Old Tried and True Oil finish on the gunstock, I don't like it, after at least 10 coats it is still blotchy. I suspect there is coat of Tru-Oil in this guns future.
Browned barrel and well oiled after being heated up.
Eric Krewson:
I thought I would revisit this phase of the build to show how difficult it was, I called this precarve stock the precarve from hell.
I was able to use an artists brush and leather dye to hide all the patches it took to correct the flaws in this stock. The curl in the stock wood was so exceptional that I couldn't trash the stock.
Here is the biggie; the lock inlet was so far off I had to glue in a piece of wood and redo the entire inlet.
This the final result, the patch is plain sugar maple (it was all I had), the stock is exceptionally curly red maple, I was able to match the color and the curl up well with the dye and small brush.
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