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We’ve built quite a few dams.This one is in Vermont. Trout and Salmon Ponds R Us. We used to have a Company by that name!
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I have been making Gun stocks for seventy years
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We’ve built quite a few dams.This one is in Vermont. Trout and Salmon Ponds R Us. We used to have a Company by that name!
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Another scale model, again this one is on a table in a home. Nice to see the scale models taking on a life of their own!
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A net project.Over the years I did many of these. I prefer a long handle to land faster, release faster. The various woods get steam bent. This is landing a Brook Trout in a small pond we built.
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Show us some of your gun stocks!
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I tried to download some gun stock photos. The files are too large and right now I am into a project that requires more attention than I thought it would when I began.
That's a good one!!! 
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No problem, but when you get time a lot of us are into guns and would sure like to see them.
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I will go bankrupt if I don’t get back to work. Using some pretty aggressive degreasers that are rough on my mini iPad. This photo is two wood projects. The Cross was erected twenty years ago on top of a very large boulder. Still straight and tall after all of these years. It is of Black Cherry and thru rodded to the boulder. The rifle is a American Black Walnut flame grain on a .257 Roberts Model 70. The other photos of rifles are pretty karate and need to be resized. The Cross was a response to complaints we did not go to church every Sunday. In the farming business, Sunday is also a work day like it or not. But there is always times to pray your efforts are not in vain. The boulder is covered with ferns and moss plus the snow.
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Here’s a photo or two of a Turkish Walnut Bavarian drop stock I bought to see what they looked like. Still, have not found a rifle for it in 22 Hornet, .222 Remington, or .223. It is not the current. CZ USA 527 Lux which has a nice finish, and is filled better. I regularly see rifle stock that are wooden that the maker had no idea how to properly finish the stock. Their current finish is really good, and very professional. I cannot produce a finished stock as good as the current model. This one though would be almost better if it had been hand rubbed oil finish like most of the rifles I stock. I send this detuned photo (not high res) to show the stock. Pretty tough to find a donor rifle to put this stock on. The rifle is pretty much set up for iron sights.
Welcome David. Show us some work!
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I have worked with long rifles for many years. This is one of the favorites. It is a restocked flintlock in 32 caliber Sugar Maple tiger pattern. Very accurate. There are a lot of in line muzzleloaders out there now. This is the real deal. Takes pretty good off hand marksmanship to adjust to the flash bang delay. Good to 200 plus yards. They are a tough build though and the prices of handcrafted modern true flintlocks with good Maple is very high. Making one yourself is a major undertaking. I have not built one that way. Very few are available to restock as they do not quit working. Considering how they were used centuries ago that tells you how tough the entire rifle is. Black Powder is a whole different world. One of these on a fireplaces mantle speaks of heritage.
David, welcome to Woodbarter. You can't go wrong here. These people are great.
I had to give "Eye Candy" on your post 32. I have a reproduction CVA flintlock I got back in '70. Made my own horns, several in cow, and one in Buffalo, and for the flash powder, Elk. I flint knap, so my Hawk and knife are in Flint, but made by flintknapping friends from around the country. their quality is much better than mine, so they get the credit. I made my Possibles bag in black leather with fringe tying it together. Stuff like that is just so awesome. I love it, even though I haven't fired my flintlock since '88. Couldn't hit stool, even though with 7 mm Rem mag, 500 yards is a piece of cake. Love the smell of black powder in the morning.(huh?) Heard that before??
Thanks for posting that picture. I'll post a picture of my horns and knives made by my friends with the proper credit. ............... Jerry (in Tucson)
I had to give "Eye Candy" on your post 32. I have a reproduction CVA flintlock I got back in '70. Made my own horns, several in cow, and one in Buffalo, and for the flash powder, Elk. I flint knap, so my Hawk and knife are in Flint, but made by flintknapping friends from around the country. their quality is much better than mine, so they get the credit. I made my Possibles bag in black leather with fringe tying it together. Stuff like that is just so awesome. I love it, even though I haven't fired my flintlock since '88. Couldn't hit stool, even though with 7 mm Rem mag, 500 yards is a piece of cake. Love the smell of black powder in the morning.(huh?) Heard that before??
Thanks for posting that picture. I'll post a picture of my horns and knives made by my friends with the proper credit. ............... Jerry (in Tucson)
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Hi David,
Welcome from Central NY near Albany. When I was a boy my dad had a friend he worked with that had a camp right outside of Vermontville. We used to go there every summer for two weeks. I loved going to that place. Unfortunately this wonderful state we live in pretty much forced him to sell it because they wanted the land. My dad was born and raised in Vermontville and is buried there. I haven't been that way in a few years though.
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Welcome from Central NY near Albany. When I was a boy my dad had a friend he worked with that had a camp right outside of Vermontville. We used to go there every summer for two weeks. I loved going to that place. Unfortunately this wonderful state we live in pretty much forced him to sell it because they wanted the land. My dad was born and raised in Vermontville and is buried there. I haven't been that way in a few years though.
Bill
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Hi to Jerry in Tucson. Sounds like we have a lot in common! I drive a Tucson, and the car actually belongs to my Tree Farm and I regard it as a business only vehicle. Right now I am mapping out a Pennslyvannia Long Rifle project in about .45 or .50 caliber. This time I’ll use one of my long Maple Blanks with a wider Fiddleback pattern (aka Tiger Maple) like I used on this light caliber flintlock. It will be the first one I have ever bothered to build in its entirety although you can bet your bottom dollar it will be using purchased barrel and hardware. I tend to like silver hardware. I don’t know which Tree Farm it will be from the one up in the Adirondacks, or the one where we will hold the Blacksky GNCC championship race in September of this year. It cannot be an exceptionally seasoned blank unless I find that pattern in a Sugar Maple Log I cut a couple of years ago and find when Imam harvesting firewood it is not blue stained as the usually are. I find red stained to be very attractive but that is in much thinner branches and I have never made a stock from a branch, except for Ironwood which I have one my father built for me in 1947. That wooden rifle is in my Browning Gunsafe. It is a toy. It is also one of my single favorite rifles!
As we all know here, wooden toys made for children, long ago, can be cherished today, or lost? DaveyJ
As we all know here, wooden toys made for children, long ago, can be cherished today, or lost? DaveyJ
Hot diggety dog!!! Those are awesome.
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To Bill, About Vermontville. It is a nice town. Yes, we are surrounded by State Forest Preserve. My smaller tree farm is up here, only three hundred acres unlike the Home Farm downstate. However the surrounding Forest Preserve is pretty wild. Some places a lot more wild than others. I have a close old Geman Friend, Hans Echart who still,has one hundred acres there. He is a really lovely man. He also has a registered Tree Farm. Unfortunately NYS is almost a communist state and our current Governor is the worst ever. I know Andrew Cuomo personally and worked for his father Mario. They have made terrible decisions for NYS. I did at one time work for NYS Department of Environmental Conservation as a Natural Resource Scientist and for awhile bought land for the State land acquisition dept. Never once did I buy a launch site, fishing rights, or fee title without a totally willing seller. I am opposed to Law of Eminent Domain. Strangely every photo even on this rig is too large to send, I don’t even know what I have to downsize them to. But here is a summer shot from one of the hilltops, It is pretty much Mountains, Lakes, rivers, and woods. Sometime maybe you’ll visit us? DaveyJ
I usually send the pix I have, to myself, via the message ap. It downsizes em automatically. I then save the new downloaded/sent picture, and I'm able to post it pretty much anywhere...
Hi David,
That's a beautiful picture. As far as I know the state never claimed eminent domain. They were just continually harassing him and making his life difficult until he finally gave in and sold it. Of course this was probably 40 years ago. I don't think they could get away with something like that today.
Bill
That's a beautiful picture. As far as I know the state never claimed eminent domain. They were just continually harassing him and making his life difficult until he finally gave in and sold it. Of course this was probably 40 years ago. I don't think they could get away with something like that today.
Bill
Welcome.
Extremely interesting fellow!
Extremely interesting fellow!