Your restorations….

Just1more · Jan 17, 2024

I have nothing :noidea:

Fatal_Bert · Jan 17, 2024

geezer said:
Your work speaks for itself. Looks top notch to me. But let’s lean this post a little more towards the amateurs, please sir. I know that’s asking a lot when most of us have to hire out a lot of the finishing work to the pros like you.

I'm still an amateur, especially with the wood refinishing. Any monkey with the time and patience can cerakote.

Woodworking is a whole different animal. I really only take on projects that just need refinishing.
I don't attempt to fix cracked stocks, or checkering, or perfectly mating a new stock to the receiver, I leave that to the pros.

alleycat · Jan 17, 2024

alleycat said:
I inherited my Dad’s old Marlin .22 many years ago with a broken stock, scope, and trigger group. I got to missing him really bad last year so I decided to rebuild her into a shooter. I modified a model 60 stock to fit and the scope was toast but I found a similar one from that time period.

The cool thing about this was when

BIKER13 made us a knife and he used the wood from my Dad’s broken gun stock for the scales

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Retired Army · Jan 17, 2024

Fatal_Bert said:
I'm still an amateur, especially with the wood refinishing. Any monkey with the time and patience can cerakote.

Woodworking is a whole different animal. I really only take on projects that just need refinishing.
I don't attempt to fix cracked stocks, or checkering, or perfectly mating a new stock to the receiver, I leave that to the pros.

You did an amazing job on my 16 gauge single shot! If I can find pics, I’ll post them. It looks better than new! No before pics but it was beat up and been through a house fire. I’ve killed many squirrels with this and will proudly pass it to my son!