gnoahhh
03-31-2016, 08:39 PM
This gun started out as a very rusted/pitted action I picked up at The Baltimore Gun Show a few years ago. Very few of the innards were usable, so parts were scrounged far and wide. Bear in mind it is a concept gun that doesn't represent any cataloged model, although a PG perch belly stock with crescent butt plate could have been special ordered 100 years ago. I lettered it and learned that it started out as a M1899H TD, .22 HiPower and was sent to the warehouse on 11/18/13 and shipped to Simmons Hardware, St. Louis, MO, on 2/9/14.
I barreled it with a pristine .22 HP barrel, and have a shorty 18" .22HP barrel and .25-35AI barrel that fits it also- making a three barrel set. All the steel bits are rust blued, lever freshly color case hardened, Lyman 30 1/2 tang sight. Wood has 12 coats gloss spar varnish, sanded between coats with 320x, final coat gloss rubbed out and then waxed to impart a soft luster.
Before:
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/100_0005-1.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/100_0005-1.jpg.html)
In process:
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/100_0009.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/100_0009.jpg.html)
Final product:
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/006_zpsjxobtw6a.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/006_zpsjxobtw6a.jpg.html)
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/005_zpsgg7uhiyn.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/005_zpsgg7uhiyn.jpg.html)
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/003_zpsk9qfkrkc.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/003_zpsk9qfkrkc.jpg.html)
I barreled it with a pristine .22 HP barrel, and have a shorty 18" .22HP barrel and .25-35AI barrel that fits it also- making a three barrel set. All the steel bits are rust blued, lever freshly color case hardened, Lyman 30 1/2 tang sight. Wood has 12 coats gloss spar varnish, sanded between coats with 320x, final coat gloss rubbed out and then waxed to impart a soft luster.
Before:
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/100_0005-1.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/100_0005-1.jpg.html)
In process:
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/100_0009.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/100_0009.jpg.html)
Final product:
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/006_zpsjxobtw6a.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/006_zpsjxobtw6a.jpg.html)
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/005_zpsgg7uhiyn.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/005_zpsgg7uhiyn.jpg.html)
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr174/gnoahhh/003_zpsk9qfkrkc.jpg (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/gnoahhh/media/003_zpsk9qfkrkc.jpg.html)