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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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12/09/14 05:34 PM
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Knowing where you are sir, I may just stop by and drool everywhere now
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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01/28/15 02:31 AM
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There have been many changes in the last year or so. I decided to start my own business and I no longer work along side Bailey Bradshaw. We still talk and visit often so no hard feelings on either end. I acquired my own shop many months back and have been doing renovations to get ready. There are still many small things left to do, but the shop is at a point I can begin gun work. Behind my work bench I still plan on doing overhead cabinets with a small lean-on gun rack. Hopes are to also be able to hang stocks below the cabinets for finish work. The bench by the mill that is untopped will be topped with a steel sheet. Plans are to put the furnace on it and do welding on it. Anyone care to help lift the furnace? Not pictured is the front office/gun room.
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Now on to the important stuff. I don't do many bolt guns having been dabbling with the double rifles at Bradshaws. This customer is a member on another forum and a young wiper snapper at that. In fact some of the reasoning behind him going with me was the age correlation; him being two or three years older than me(24). I hope this gun sees a lot of use in the field as he works in Tanzania. He bought the metal work from another fellow member, then sent it to me. Im not sure who has done the metal work until this point. We decided to go with a English style stock, very open grip, short forend, and trim for .404 standards. Here I am drilling the holes and roughing the inletting on the mill: Metal hand inletted the rest of the way: Plans are to fill the inclusion on the barrel channel with matching wood: Did some 2-dimensional work today:
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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01/28/15 02:38 AM
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amazing work, and it looks like the shop is coming along. That is some true craftsman ship in what you do. Keep up the good work. Walter
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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02/01/15 06:24 AM
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02/04/15 02:39 AM
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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02/04/15 03:44 AM
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Love that grain. Nice work so far.
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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02/14/15 09:20 PM
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I had a little lull in projects yesterday so I figured I would contour a barrel for a 7x57 I'll be building for inventory. Im wanting this to be a light rifle styled after English stalking rifles. I also made a tool for turning the radius near the barrel shank, worked pretty well. No chattering! Im undecided if I will be stepping down the shank area a little. the rear sight base, front sight base, and swivel base will be made from scratch as I don't think they make them small enough for what I'm wanting. The action is one I picked up from Sarco, there will be a lot of cleaning up to do. The blank is a piece of Turkish walnut with no drama.
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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02/15/15 12:02 AM
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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02/15/15 05:23 AM
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You are killing me. Do you take kids in trade? I tried this already. Lol
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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02/21/15 03:57 PM
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I have personally seen and held this gun. Beautiful work. Its already nice as it is; but Aaron says he still has a long way to go!
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Big props to Pac-Nor and Jay for delivering on time and the good customer service. Starting on the barrels I cut off the unsafe shotgun tubes leaving me with a monoblock. Now I must bore it out to accept the rifle barrels. On this particular gun the holes in the monoblock are not parallel but rather slightly facing in toward the muzzle. To bore this out correctly I must off-set the head of the mill to account for this. Barrels being turned to fit in the monoblock. With 26" barrels this gun will finish out 8.75-9lbs. pictured here the barrels are 27 1/2", ribs long and unmachined. I will have the reamer soon. After reaming the chamber I will attach the barrels permanently into the monoblock, lay ribs, regulate, install a metal trigger guard, etc...
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Next up I must smoke the barrels onto the monoblock. Since the barrels aren't perfectly perpendicular with the monoblock face I have to file the monoblock face so that the barrels meet up flush. In thie pic you can see the left barrel is already fit, the right still needs done: Both fit: Barrels soldered in and stoned: Milling the extractor pocket: Teaser: Tomorrow I will machine and smoke in the new extractor then fit the ribs.
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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11/07/15 10:51 PM
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Spectacular work, as usual.
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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11/08/15 04:38 AM
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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01/09/16 10:42 PM
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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01/09/16 10:54 PM
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Wow that is a work of art sir. Hats off to you, I'd never have the patience for that work.
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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01/10/16 01:38 AM
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Patients indeed. I was at the Safari Club Show today (my feet are still killin me). There were two people doing engraving . It was really neat watching them do magic. If I was doin it every other words would M______ F____r, as I ruined another piece. So TDK, if a guy had a nice Winchester Pre-64 Winchester sitting in the safe feeling lonely and plain. Would you be interested in dressing her up a bit? I haven't been on your website to see what exactly it is you do besides build beautiful guns. Let me know I will let the Winny's owner know
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Re: Whats on the work bench...
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Ive seen the GRS booth at the show and have also hovered over my old boss while he was doing it. Very time consuming, and you don't have an eraser. I'd love to take the classes GRS offers. I could never do animals or people, but scroll and lettering is what I like anyways.
Buzzsaw, I certainly could. Of course one could rack up a heft bill pretty quickly, this gun above will have $12,000+ in it before its done, and that's a conservative build. Yet the only thing factory about it is the action.
One could just have it restocked, or even have the factory stock reshaped and refinished. Just rebarreled, maybe to a different caliber. Barrels alone can run $200-$2000. Engraving or no engraving. Different typed of metal finish. The list is long and unfortunately I don't have any set price being a custom gun. Wood blanks alone can run $500-$3000+, this one was $850. Do you want original bottom metal or aftermarket high end units like Duane Wiebe bottom metal? Iron sights only? scope only? scope and irons. Quick detach scope rings? Which quick detach setup, that can vary from $300-$1500+.
Tell me what you want and we can draw up a quote.
I don't currently have a website but will in the future due to some things in the works. I currently get work solely off of forums and word of mouth, so far that has been enough for this one man shop.
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