show us your kit guns and refinishes

[TheBigAR2003]

show us some pics of your craftsmanship
pics of guns you built from kits or refinished
the more customized the better!
ive been wanting to get a bp pistol kit probably a walker
and was wondering about the different ways to finish it

 

[arcticap]

Check out Bonesaw's Uberti Walker kit from Dixie that he nickel plated:

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=237524

 

[TomADC]

I should have mine assembled tomorrow if I do I'll post a picture.

 

[Das Jaeger]

Okeedokeee

here's a smattering of my work









You didn't say it had to be BP guns only !



Jeager

 

[madcratebuilder]

You do a great job on those Remington grips. I hate fitting that top curve.

Here is my first attempt at rust bluing.


This is a brass grip frame on a Ruger, plus a Bisley hammer added.


This .44 Pietta is just starting the defrab process. I'm going to cut the barrel and ram to four inches.

 

[Das Jaeger]

Belgium Blue , mmm Purdy

You do great work Madcratebuilder . I would envy you if my ego envying me wasn't so big
Oh , and thanks , yes , those Remingtons can be tricky , patience is everything , well maybe some talent too , and the fact I have done ruined a bunch of um too gettin to this point , but that's Gods work he gave us anyways , mmm , talent , nope not ours , HIS , he let us barrow is all , yup . I see he loaned you out your fare share of it too ! Yup

Good Day , Jaeger

 

[TomADC]

You two are a hard act to follow I know the originator is looking for handguns but heck here's the Zoli Zouve kit.

 

[Das Jaeger]

Oh just lovely

TomADC , beautiful lines on that gun , nice job too
Oh , and were not an act to follow anyway , were more like a train wreck your runnin after watchin to see when it de-rails . It's no act , its for real .

Das Jaeger

 

[Das Jaeger]

I would have thought

this thread would have gotten some more posters , projects , and such from people ? Come on Folks !

Here is the Rudamentary form of the Pedersoli Kentucky I recently built up into my own version of thier Silver Star Kentucky . I consider every rifle or pistol I buy to be a KIT , they all see a set of tools and mediocre talent before they are considered finished or to my liking . I call it turning SHIZA into Shinola ! This one is in .54 caliber . Pedersoli puts out a nice product and as you can see , it is as basic a set of gun parts as it gets ...




The LAB !



Das Jaegers creation




Das Jeager

 

[hushnel]

Sorry for jumping right in, this will be my first post on this forum.

This was a kit I bought at one of the Rendezvous, I couldn’t believe how inexpensive it was, then I discovered none of the parts fit, it was like the guy putting it together walked along his stock saying he’ll need one of these and one of those, but it was a blast.

I built this years ago and I’m taking it up to Tenn. in November for a little white tail hunting. It’s a Thompson Center Renegade, simply outfitted with iron hardware.

 

[Das Jaeger]

Awsome guns Hushnel

And thanks for jumping right in , good job , wish more would follow your good leed
Good lookin pistol too . Love them iron Renegades too , good lookin guns .

Thanks for posting , and don't stop !

Das Jaeger

Welcome to the Forum

 

[messerist]

Yous guys is havin' "too much fun." I is gunna tell the guvmint!!!!

 

[Das Jaeger]

Just what we need

you tellin Obama Bin Laudin he needs to take away more of our Chit he don't have any right to do anyways . That's just great Messerist , here's his personal number : 1-800-Impeach-Me

Jaeger

 

[madcratebuilder]

Welcome to the forum hushnel, nice work on the pistol. Did you see the small print? "Some fitting required"

 

[hushnel]

"Some fitting required"

Yeah, in invisible ink on the brown paper bag it came in I don’t think I even got a written receipt for it. I actually enjoyed the project more than the TC.

It encouraged me to start a project I still haven’t finished. I have finished the lock and it was a kit too, all the parts are rough cast except the spring of course. I was approached by a visitor to the rendezvous a few years back that had some old quarter sawn rifle blanks he said where his fathers, a barrel maker followed me out to this guys car and gave me first choice, I picked a maple stock with 8 to 10 curls per inch that has enough meat on it to carve a left handed flinter in the Style of Isaac Haines of Lancaster County PA. I gave him the $50.00 he was asking, the barrel maker bought the rest.

I’ve been looking for a barrel maker to make a reproduction barrel of the correct style and bored for .460 before I go any further.

I do more leather work these days but always have time for a few side projects.

Shouldn't do this but.... I finished this a few months back

 

[Das Jaeger]

Nice work

and we botch threads all the time . Conforming would be the abnormal around here , your pictures whatever they are of are welcome , you talked about Kits too , good enough

Not allot of good barrel makers left out there , good luck with that . The Landcaster rifles were very nice indeed , ART .

Jaeger

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I see I'm not the only one to hang stocks out to dry on coat hangers from flora in the yard.

 

[Das Jaeger]

I used to be

Martha Stewart ,
Dr. Winslow
Hee hee hee , flowers are cool .

Jaeger

PS.......Alumminum wire , not coat hangers .

 

[alemonkey]

Here's a Pietta 1851 that I refinished. When I got it the barrel was all buggered up around the wedge from some yahoo trying to pound it out with a metal hammer, so I draw filed the barrel to clean it up. While I was at it I removed the Pietta and "Blackpowder Only" marks from the barrel. Looks much better without them, IMO.

I used cold blue on the barrel and cylinder and it's starting to wear off around the forcing cone and where it rubs on the holster, but I kind of like how it looks. Not so shiny and new out of the box, more like it's seen years of real use.

 

[messerist]

Great sheath Hushnel, now take the clothes off that knife and let us see the rest!. Tom were are waiting for a range report on that very nice Zouave. I'd laud Jaeger's work but he knows he's good and besides the guvmint gonna take him away for killing pretty tree to make GUN GRIPS!. Madcrate just likes to make me drool, hence the bib. That Navy looks great alemonkey. You are all stellar craftsmen to me.

 

[hushnel]

Being the obliging kind of guy I am, Bark River Knife and Tool, Aurora with bone carved stag.

 

[desidog]

I meant to post these a while back on the thread i started about bluing and browning; but i got preoccupied with the summer's activities. Here's two Lyman Plains pistols in .50, and two knives; i got the blades a while back from Smoky Mountain Knifeworks. The combat-knife blade has a stag handle, and the shorter one has a purple-heart wood handle. The barrels and blades were browned, using the browning solution from Laurel Mountain.
Sorry, I need to take some brighter pictures.

The standard length pistol is now at the bottom of the English Channel - it served very well taking pot-shots at Portuguese Men-o-war while i was sailing across the Atlantic this summer, but isn't allowed to be brought into England. The browning stood up to a lot of use, spray and saltwater quite well, and since i knew it was eventually going overboard, i did not exert myself while cleaning it.

 

[scrat]

Ok before pieta 1858
just started the porting and just finished fitting the cylinder.

deblued the parts

some custom metal finishing

 

[scrat]

final finish.

after initial put together
also aged the grips up

 

[scrat]

Final Finish Product





Best part of it is the rust brown effect. It was pretty hard to get it done right. In shaded areas are dark areas the gun looks dark closer to black. When in the light it looks rust black (brown). Turns heads where ever i go.



Oh with the carefull removal of the left screw on the loading lever. a minute later and she is shooting cap and ball again