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sleek:
Jaw dropping
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: sleek on October 30, 2021, 03:09:38 pm ---Jaw dropping
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There is a reason that maple of that quality is hard to find and expensive when it shows up. There are types of curl that are even more expensive, shellback, flame, etc. Degree of difficulty in working seems to go hand in hand with the rising price. The more you pay, the more you curse!
Nice glow in that wood, Eric. I like it.
Eric Krewson:
I did an assembly for a photo op, shop pictures always look dingy but it is raining outside. I haven't had the lock in the mortis for a long time, it didn't fit right so I did a little re-inletting for a good fit. Now the ramrod won't go in without force, I will fix that tomorrow.
Eric Krewson:
Before I put finish on my gun the had to adjust the ramrod entry pipe to realign it with the drilled hole in the forestock. My ramrod groove was drilled with a distinct bow to the right which threw everything off. After the adjustment I could finally get a ramrod down with just a little friction on one side.
After I assembled the gun the ramrod wouldn't go in, I blacked the rod and found it was hitting the top of the hole with a lot of friction. Today I am going to try a few things to relieve the wood in this area inside the hole to open things up again.
I don't have all the attachment pins in the forestock, this may have caused the misalignment so installing these pins will be my first step.
If installing the pins doesn't help I am going to glue some 80 grit sand paper on a 5/16" dowel and shim up the entry hole so when I insert the dowel it will sand the tight area. One has to be careful with any work in the ramrod hole to make sure you don't stick anything in it that you can't get out.
If the sanding doesn't work then I will use one of my homemade ramrod hole drills to enlarge the hole, on a finished gun there is very little wood between the hole and the bottom of the forestock so breaking out is a possibility.
This build has been very problematical, this is the latest saga.
When I solve this problem it is time to make smoke, the gun is completely finished, it is absolutely beautiful (if you don't look too close).
A quick edit; I couldn't stand the wait so I hustled out to the shop in my jammies and installed the barrel pins. I could get the ramrod down but not easily, I sill need to relieve the hole a little bit or taper the ramrod.
Eric Krewson:
I actually stared at the celling in bed last night trying to figure out a way the best way to fix the ramrod hole problem.
I went out to my shop and looked in my storage tube for old ramrods and found a 5/16" ramrod hole drill that I didn't know I had. I decided to upend the blunt end with a ball peen hammer and turn it into a scraper.
I didn't notice this picture was blurry until I assembled everything after the fix.
I removed the entry pipe and used a piece of leather to shim up the scraper and get it to make contact with the tight area of wood that needed to be removed.
I would run the scraper in and out a dozen times and try to get a ramrod in the hole, it went in slightly better after the first scraping, 5 more scraping sessions and the ramrod went in normally with just enough resistance to hold it in place.
Success! I had an old 3/8" ramrod that I cut off to fit this 38" barreled gun, It will be my temp until I make a new one that is stained right to match this gun.
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