Custom Actions, Carbon Steel

[shortgrass]

Your response tells me much , Tim. Like you are unfamiliar with slow rust blue and professional metal finishes. I have been gunsmithing for 26yrs now. Professionally trained at that (MCC Class of '93). So I know bit about the subject. I graduated at the top of my class and have kept up on the 'advances'. No coating can rival a proper slow rust blue. About the only thing we might agree upon is "prep is VERY important". Few that I have met, sands the few other gunsmith school grads, have much of an idea at all about metal prep. I know enough about metal finishing that I have seriously thought about applying for professional membership in the ACGG as a metal finisher. No bead blast allow there, to cover the lack of metal prep! While in school, we were graded on our metal finishing by the instructor after he inspected the entire firearm with a magnifying glass looking for imperfections. And, we didn't submit just 1 firearm, we were required 6 to complete the metal finishing part of the course. Then, in the second yr, we had Advanced Metal Finishing. (I began my career in the machining trade in '74, so I know a bit about that, too!) I didn't learn the trade by watching YouTube videos and asking questions on the interdnet!

 

[Dusty Stevens]

any coating i've ever seen that is sprayed on LOOKS sprayed on. can you imagine taking one of the fine rifles @butchlambert kindly posts pictures of from time to time and cerakoting it? or teflon coating it?

 

[Tim s]

Your response tells me much , Tim. Like you are unfamiliar with slow rust blue and professional metal finishes. I have been gunsmithing for 26yrs now. Professionally trained at that (MCC Class of '93). So I know bit about the subject. I graduated at the top of my class and have kept up on the 'advances'. No coating can rival a proper slow rust blue. About the only thing we might agree upon is "prep is VERY important". Few that I have met, sands the few other gunsmith school grads, have much of an idea at all about metal prep. I know enough about metal finishing that I have seriously thought about applying for professional membership in the ACGG as a metal finisher. No bead blast allow there, to cover the lack of metal prep! While in school, we were graded on our metal finishing by the instructor after he inspected the entire firearm with a magnifying glass looking for imperfections. And, we didn't submit just 1 firearm, we were required 6 to complete the metal finishing part of the course. Then, in the second yr, we had Advanced Metal Finishing. (I began my career in the machining trade in '74, so I know a bit about that, too!) I didn't learn the trade by watching YouTube videos and asking questions on the interdnet!

Do rifles built by Steve Heilman count ? Having an ACGG gun of the year, built/engraved by 3 master guild members qualify as awareness ? Him I know.. Hart rifle, I know....you not so much.

 

[Tim s]

any coating i've ever seen that is sprayed on LOOKS sprayed on. can you imagine taking one of the fine rifles @butchlambert kindly posts pictures of from time to time and cerakoting it? or teflon coating it?

Not for nothing, have you ever seen a 1st class pro job ?

 

[shortgrass]

Not for nothing, have you ever seen a 1st class pro job ?

Tim, I have seen what you are calling "a first class pro job", as has Dusty. Sprayed-on will always look like sprayed-on if you know what you're looking at. I will also say, that there are probably hundreds if not thousands , just like me, who could care less about what the interdnet thinks, as we have more work than we can handle now! And just for the record, a true slow rust blue is NOT a DIY task. Not if you want professional results. If name recognition is all you worship, have at it! The majority of my customers are not internet jockys, like you seem to be! Some might log-on and read, most don't bother to post. You are living with blinders on, in your own little world! And, I happen to know Karen @ Hart quit well, myself, as I use many of their barrels! My last order was for 17 of their tubes. She has actually referred a few of their customers, who were looking for a stockmaker, to me. You don't know, what you don't know! Sounds to me like you do no "work" yourself, just like to throw around names.....

 

[Tim s]

Ok, I got it. Now, is that a rust blued stock?
By the way, nobody said bluing was a DIY job,

 

[swehrman]

Not for nothing, have you ever seen a 1st class pro job ?

Post some pictures so we can all see what you're referring to.

-- Scott

 

[Tim s]

Post some pictures so we can all see what you're referring to.

-- Scott

The above post has his info, you can go to his site and look at a few.

 

[butchlambert]

Kinda easy to get Timmy's goat.

 

[Tommie]

Stainless galling is a real thing. In rifle actions? Maybe.

 

[Tim s]

Kinda easy to get Timmy's goat.

Always nice to hear from the head of " the older I get, the better I was " club.

 

[butchlambert]

Always nice to hear from the head of " the older I get, the better I was " club.

Took you longer to figure it out than I thought.