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Get a Grip, (Spoon)
Bought a couple Uberti 1851 Navys. and wanted to personalize them. So I bought a piece of curly maple and carved out one set. Made them one piece from three pieces. They came out OK.
 Action photo lol   Fitting the spacer & epoxied. Then the other side was carved and epoxied...  Applying tung oil  Will have a pic with the grips on the spoon tomorrow. The last coat of oil is drying.
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Nice.
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Nice work... I love Curly Maple but it's expen$ive down here.
As a present to a friend I carved a hand grip for his old rangefinder camera from it. Great to work with.
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Nice work there.
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Very nice! I'm good at bigger scale wood projects, but give me a chisel and I turn into a hack. I appreciate the skill required to do that, it's a true craft.
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Good work there Buckterrier!
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Don't worry. You have so many fantastic hard woods to choose from. What about Jarrah? |
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Jarrah is almost too hard... It's great but it blunts your saws and chisels in no time.
I prefer imported hardwoods from Asia. (Box making etc)
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Slap my face, but I has a pile of it and chopped it up for firewood. Sparks were coming off the chainsaw and I thought I'd hit a nail. I wasn't, it was just really hard wood. One bit burnt for 23 hours in the wood burner.
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Very nice!!!!!
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WOW! Who knew you were so skilled? Great job!.
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Very nice work. All you need is a web site and you got a business.
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Holy smokes, Mark, that is pretty damn cool. Can't wait to see the finished product.
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Thats looks like good craftsmanship there.
Just curious if your have any plans of doing a cartridge conversion or are going to leave them as is? |
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NICE job. The great thing about curly maple is that it is the choice wood for silver wire inlay.
Get crackin'!  Silver Wire Inlay Techniques by Joe Keeslar, MS - YouTube
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03-11-2013, 08:24 AM
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Thanks for the kind comments guys. They were fun to make. Certainly would have been quicker with power tools but non the less fun.
Jaunte I may just practice a bit and try. Thanks for the link, that is really cool. Not sure what the gig is. I took a pic of the grips on the spoon emailed to to myself. It's on my apple but it doesn't show up when I try to download from Pelican  I'll keep trying.
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