better- maybe- picture
I went outside today, in the diffuse light, before the shitstorm hit. This does a better job of showing off the stock.
here’s a closeup of the stock, showing the grain off. This was a pretty plain looking piece of wood, frankly, and the oil made it snap.
This is an incredibly crappy camera, sorry. But I can’t stop touching this stock, it’s amazing. And I’m going to redo my ’06 with this oil.
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No need to apologize about the photgraphy, Og. Its true that your photography doesn’t hold a candle to the likes of …say… Brigid… but it still is good enough to show us what you are talking about.
VERY nice wood grain on that rifle stock. Very pretty. Thanks for sharing it.
Very nice work Og. Bet it feels great to the hand.
Amazing. Looks almost too nice.
Wow. Just wow.
Damn! That’s nice. REALLY nice!
NICE!.
You still up for archery season?
I’m hoping.
Not worth a darn in my book. Looks too good to take out and shoot, I already have too many safe queens. Need to have ’em a bit scruffy looking so you aren’t afraid to USE it.
Trust me, Jim, I’ll use it. No safe queens here. Nothing says a gun that gets used has to look like shit.
On a side note, does anyone know how to season a plank for use as a gunstock? My father is having a huge maple removed from his front yard next year that has to be 100 years old (it’s half dead and it’s about 15 feet from the house: it’s only luck that he hasn’t had a limb crash through his house.)
I’ve been wanting to build a flintlock from scratch for years. I think having a rifle and matching pistol with wood from a tree I spent many a day playing around or sitting under would just… be right…
Cut into planks. If it’s big enough, split the planks out. If you don’t have a froe let me know and I’ll find something for you. then let them sit forever. You can paint the ends, which helps then to not crack (the paint lets the water evaporate at a more even rate) and stand them in a dry place.
Og: go to this website so you can do some touch-up work on your digital photographs before posting them. It’s easy to use, you can see the changes you make and cancel them if you don’t like them, it’s free, and is clear of spyware. Your pictures will look much better, even given a bad camera.
Very very nice work Og–Almost too nice to use.
One of the nice things about this finish is that when it gets scratched or scraped, you can steel-wool it to smooth, then buff with a bit of the oil on a cloth and pretty much make the mark disappear.