Post by: Captchee on January 02, 2014, 07:41:20 AM
As im rather proud of this young mans first attempts .
The rifles not finished and he still has a ways to go but its coming along nicely .
I don’t have pictures of him building the triggers , trigger guard or the patch box . But I can attest that he made those as well .
Stock is Black walnut , ebony nose cap
Barrel . 36 in , 54 cal Colerain
Manton lock
Hand made sights
Triggers are double set , single bar
Ill have more and better photos as he progresses in the finish shaping and engraving maybe he will have it done by late spring LOL
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/captchee/Rifles/DSC00092_zpsde0b1d0f.jpg)
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/captchee/Rifles/DSC00096_zpscaf47e4a.jpg)
Post by: Riley/MN on January 02, 2014, 10:09:50 AM
Post by: gunmaker on January 02, 2014, 01:05:23 PM
Post by: Uncle Russ on January 02, 2014, 01:44:03 PM
Uncle Russ...
Post by: Hank in WV on January 02, 2014, 05:13:15 PM
Post by: Captchee on January 02, 2014, 06:47:42 PM
Quote from: "gunmaker"
That'll do it......I like that guard. Idaho Elk ????
nope , no its an early english sporting TG .
the elk will come in on the oversized patchbox which he is planning on doing both cut engraving and balino
Post by: ridjrunr on January 02, 2014, 08:45:46 PM
Post by: Captchee on January 05, 2014, 09:33:31 AM
Quote from: "RussB"
I like the gun too, but I'm really impressed with all that nice wood. WOW!
Uncle Russ...
A friend of mine has a place down along the snake river .
I was down at his place setting up a smoothbore for a customer when the owner of the land next to DJ’s came down . We had finished shooting for the day and was setting back under the trees having a cold one when the subject of conversation turned to stock wood .
DJ mentioned the figured walnut stock on Beaverman’s Isaac Haines rifle . That lead to the neighbor stating that he had an black walnut on his place that was at least 100 years old . It had died some 5-10 years back and was still standing down on the old homestead . Said I could have it if I wanted it other wise he was going to push it over and cut it up for fire wood in the next few weeks .
So we packed up and went to take a look .
We took a D9 and pushed it over . I cut it into 8ft lengths and we loaded them up on a car trailer with a front loader .
I then stated calling around and found a local fella with a mill who agree do to slab it out for me for 100.00 and the cost of any blades he might tear up .
I ended up with 22 planks ranging fro 8-24 inchs across , 4 to 6 inchs deep and 8 ft long .
What you see in the photo is about 8 ft of what i have . That stack actually covers 12 ft of that wall and another 12 ft along another wall .
wasn’t to long after that that I had a customer come in who was trying to make his own stock from an English walnut that his father had cut down some 30 years back and set the planks to dry . Problem was , he didn’t seal the ends so the planks split . He said that if I would cut him out a couple blanks for his Remington , he would give me what was left . Thus I have those two English walnut planks that are split , which you see in the photo . While split they still work for ½ stocks , butt and forearms or pistol stocks …. But for the most part they are split fairly bad . he also gave me an additional 5 planks that same size which are far more usable . however none of the english really has any figure to it .
of the black walnut , i have maybe 5 planks that have very nice figure .
every time i cut a stock out of it , its like christmas . you just never know whats hidding in there.
Juan finally decide on a base engraving pattern seen for the patch box .
way , way above his skill level . not to mention mine. But since he talked me into giving it a go , I guess ill give it a shot. don’t think im good enough yet to do the pattern justice . We will just have to see how it turns out on a practice plate first .
basicly it will be this with a leaf pattern on the final and front half of the lid and final . then a rope patern around the back of the lid .
as i said , i dont know . going to be a real challange for sure
dont know who the artist was who drew this but ,DAM!! they sure did a good job.
i guess im going to have to find out who the picture belongs to over the next coming months
(http://traditionalmuzzleloadingassociation.org/forum/gallery/image.php?album_id=56&image_id=5590&sk=t&sd=d&st=0)
Post by: Uncle Russ on January 05, 2014, 08:30:35 PM
Uncle Russ...
Post by: Captchee on March 29, 2014, 10:01:40 PM
now this is my first real attempt at Belino type engraving but i dont think it came out to bad .
started it 2 weeks ago and finished it tonight . not the best photo . we took it with his cell phone . ill have better photos hopfuly later in the week .
(http://traditionalmuzzleloadingassociation.org/forum/gallery/image.php?album_id=56&image_id=5599)
Post by: Riley/MN on March 29, 2014, 11:02:07 PM
Post by: R.M. on March 29, 2014, 11:48:24 PM
Post by: Roaddog on March 30, 2014, 07:44:56 AM
Post by: Two Steps on March 30, 2014, 08:15:46 AM
Al
Post by: Captchee on March 30, 2014, 10:28:51 AM
its also all strait line work . in other words no dots , just layer upon layer of stait lines
in some place i got my cut alittle to heavy on the body of the elk . the texture should be more like whats on the tree . also there is no ink in the design . the shades you see is all caused by light hitting the cuts in the design .
its going to take alot of practice for sure . but ill get there
Post by: Hanshi on March 30, 2014, 03:43:10 PM
Post by: Uncle Russ on March 30, 2014, 04:43:43 PM
Quote from: "Hanshi"
Great work all around. Some have talent and the rest of us don't.
Hanshi, I know well of what you speak.
Over the years I have seen a lot of Captchee's work, he is truly an artist with his hands.
Uncle Russ...
Post by: Captchee on March 30, 2014, 05:47:08 PM
Post by: Riley/MN on March 30, 2014, 09:12:54 PM
Post by: Detached on March 31, 2014, 03:34:21 PM
Outstanding work, both he and you.
Post by: Captchee on March 31, 2014, 07:21:00 PM
Post by: Hood on April 11, 2014, 09:16:52 AM