mooman76
09-15-2007, 03:15 PM
I can't figure it out, it is either a new old project or and old new project![smilie=1: Anyway a few years ago I was at a swap meet and someone had a M/L new in the box for $65. It was clearly not new but still in the box. He took $50 for it.:-D I don't remember what brand(some off brand) but it is similar to a CVA Kentucky in fact probubly made by the same company. The receipt in the box was dated 1982. I was thinking of converting it to Flintlock but it has a wierd end to it and the powder drum is one solid piece moulded into a one inch long piece of octagon metal threaded into the end of the barrel.:-?
Not a big deal as it is a cheap gun and I was looking for a project to do and you hardly see any M/L's any more made of wood except for the expensive ones. I always wanted on tiger striped and was going to buy an expensive piece of wood but that would be like putting hubcaps on a tractor so I decided to fake it instead.
I got the proper wood stain and I was going to paint the stripes on and sand enough to feather the edges but It wasn't working out so I went with a marker instead. It didn't look that great at first but after all cheap gun what do I have to loose. I stained over the stripes a couple coats to make it nice and dark and it looked better but still not great.
I used a hand oil finnish and the more coats I put on it the better it looked. I'm not one to brag but it come out so far looking not half bad. I did one fupa though. I did prefit the brass but forgot to fit the barrel. I went to fit the barrel and it wouldn't fit. Only thing I could figure was the wood was so old that it dried allot (partially due to the climate here) and srunk up enough I couldn't fit it. :twisted: :twisted:
I set it aside for awhile due to other things going on and not wanting to deal with it. I finally figured out a good way to fit it was to carefully take a drimmel with a sanding drum and take off enough wood to fit it. It didn't come out perfect but still not too bad. It's probubly going to end up being a wall hanger that I can shoot anyway especially since I already have a dozen M/L's already.:-D
Next task is to do the final fit and brown the barrel.:coffee:
Not a big deal as it is a cheap gun and I was looking for a project to do and you hardly see any M/L's any more made of wood except for the expensive ones. I always wanted on tiger striped and was going to buy an expensive piece of wood but that would be like putting hubcaps on a tractor so I decided to fake it instead.
I got the proper wood stain and I was going to paint the stripes on and sand enough to feather the edges but It wasn't working out so I went with a marker instead. It didn't look that great at first but after all cheap gun what do I have to loose. I stained over the stripes a couple coats to make it nice and dark and it looked better but still not great.
I used a hand oil finnish and the more coats I put on it the better it looked. I'm not one to brag but it come out so far looking not half bad. I did one fupa though. I did prefit the brass but forgot to fit the barrel. I went to fit the barrel and it wouldn't fit. Only thing I could figure was the wood was so old that it dried allot (partially due to the climate here) and srunk up enough I couldn't fit it. :twisted: :twisted:
I set it aside for awhile due to other things going on and not wanting to deal with it. I finally figured out a good way to fit it was to carefully take a drimmel with a sanding drum and take off enough wood to fit it. It didn't come out perfect but still not too bad. It's probubly going to end up being a wall hanger that I can shoot anyway especially since I already have a dozen M/L's already.:-D
Next task is to do the final fit and brown the barrel.:coffee: