So, with the "lock down" that is being enforced here where I live, thought I'd to get a bit of tidying up around the farm done. I headed out to start in the shed/workshop. I was procrastinating as usual, got side tracked and decided it would be a good time to make a dedicated casting bench.
( Especially after seeing Texasmac's tidy bench in a recent post - sort of shamed me into it.)
So, here's the result, made it up out of bits and pieces that were laying around the shed, so I sort of have been tidying up, yet to be "christened"
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No doubt some folks have got some pretty fancy set ups, please show us what ya got.
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Out in western NSW where it don't rain much.
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I'm still putting man cave together. It's been a all winter project and I still don't have the low casting bench built on the left side where the ammo boxes are sitting right now. But it will be a low bench so I can sit on a low stool. I still have to get a range hood and get it vented outside.
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I been down in the mole den for about 40 years and my Wife said why don't you finish that junk room and move upstairs.
So it will be a man cave with a wall hung TV and full bath behind. Also it will be a place for friends to stay when they come visiting.
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
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Mike,
That is a Southern Mountain rifle that resembles the ones that J. Henry was building for trade with the American Fur Company it has a 44" rice swamped barrel in 54 cal. a classic ketland lock that has the plate reworked to better resemble the locks henry used.
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The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"Winston Churchill
Nice rifle even if the lock is on the wrong side. I keep thinking I'll build a flinter again. It was 1974 when I drove over to Dixie Gun Works and picked up the parts after talking it over with my 2LT, Robert Glodt. Yep the same one currently residing in Texas. Finished it while stationed in NY but knew I could better, so let it go and never got one of them "round tuits". Have a beautiful piece of very tight curl maple that would make a wonderful rifle.
Woody
Richard A. Wood
If you are surrounded. You are in a target rich environment.
Kurt,
That rifle’s a beauty. I’ve always admired the lines of flintlocks in many forms. I have a copy of a J.J. Henry English Pattern rifle in 54 and always wanted one of his Lancaster pattern rifles for the Amer. Fur Co. to match with it but I got married before I could make that happen.
Kurt,
That rifle’s a beauty. I’ve always admired the lines of flintlocks in many forms. I have a copy of a J.J. Henry English Pattern rifle in 54 and always wanted one of his Lancaster pattern rifles for the Amer. Fur Co. to match with it but I got married before I could make that happen.
Kurt,
That rifle’s a beauty. I’ve always admired the lines of flintlocks in many forms. I have a copy of a J.J. Henry English Pattern rifle in 54 and always wanted one of his Lancaster pattern rifles for the Amer. Fur Co. to match with it but I got married before I could make that happen.
I keep thinking I'll build a flinter again. It was 1974 when I drove over to Dixie Gun Works and picked up the parts after talking it over with my 2LT, Robert Glodt. Yep the same one currently residing in Texas. Finished it while stationed in NY but knew I could better, so let it go and never got one of them "round tuits". Have a beautiful piece of very tight curl maple that would make a wonderful rifle.