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The Campfire / Re: What's Everyone Doing?
« Last post by LongWalker on Today at 01:29:14 AM »I do try to stay busy. . . . .
Am off tomorrow, so I'm going to try to get a bunch of stuff listed for sale: mostly extras I picked up from an estate sale (some ML and BPC barrels, modern scopes, and some misc).
About 6 years ago I decided (after ~45 years of dithering) that I wanted to make a copy of a horn carried by one of my great-greats. From the looks of the horn and the original carving, it was F&I era. When he got ahold of it post Rev War he did some carving of his own.
Tried finding a decent horn lately of a specific size/color/profile? I've been checking weekly for 6 years, no luck on ebay or Powderhornsandmore, or in the FSoT posts on the various forums I follow. I posted a WTB here, but I'm really missing the day when a note to Mr. Wilburn would have 5 of them shipped to my door.
Need to finish doing structural repairs/restoration on a cabinet for my incredibly-patient HSO. Need to get back to finishing the re-stock of my hunting rifle HG, get the Leman converted to a decent honest ignition system instead of Reverend Forsyth's monstrosity, and get a couple of pistols made.
On the bright side, after almost 25 years of work, the end of my boucheron project is almost in sight! I had to pick up some new skills (starting with burning charcoal, so I could set up and run a bloomery to refine bog iron), then figure out the cementation process so I could forge up shear steel. After that, forging/grinding the blade, etc is almost a walk in the park. And given that much lead time, I was even able to scrounge up the required boxwood.
Am off tomorrow, so I'm going to try to get a bunch of stuff listed for sale: mostly extras I picked up from an estate sale (some ML and BPC barrels, modern scopes, and some misc).
About 6 years ago I decided (after ~45 years of dithering) that I wanted to make a copy of a horn carried by one of my great-greats. From the looks of the horn and the original carving, it was F&I era. When he got ahold of it post Rev War he did some carving of his own.
Tried finding a decent horn lately of a specific size/color/profile? I've been checking weekly for 6 years, no luck on ebay or Powderhornsandmore, or in the FSoT posts on the various forums I follow. I posted a WTB here, but I'm really missing the day when a note to Mr. Wilburn would have 5 of them shipped to my door.
Need to finish doing structural repairs/restoration on a cabinet for my incredibly-patient HSO. Need to get back to finishing the re-stock of my hunting rifle HG, get the Leman converted to a decent honest ignition system instead of Reverend Forsyth's monstrosity, and get a couple of pistols made.
On the bright side, after almost 25 years of work, the end of my boucheron project is almost in sight! I had to pick up some new skills (starting with burning charcoal, so I could set up and run a bloomery to refine bog iron), then figure out the cementation process so I could forge up shear steel. After that, forging/grinding the blade, etc is almost a walk in the park. And given that much lead time, I was even able to scrounge up the required boxwood.