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Reply #30 - Dec 29th, 2010 at 11:04pm
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Whitey, I have used most of the common brands mentioned above in my years of working on wooden boats.  What I have found I like best are good quality Japanese chisles I buy at a quality wood working supply.  A good stone is as important as the tool.  Those wood working stores are pricey but you really don't need too many for what you are doing.  I think a couple hundred bucks would set you up nicely for life with the chisles and a stone that you would never regret or have to replace.
  
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Reply #31 - Dec 29th, 2010 at 11:06pm
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Dave thanks for the information. Whitey
  
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Reply #32 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 2:05am
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For real fine work I like a scalpel, I get mine from my Doc, about 10 or so at a time, and they are sharps, I resharpen on a leather strap, or the back of the belt sander running real slow. 
Nothing is made like the old days, the quality needed or that we all want is still out there, we just have to hunt a bit harder now. And I'm partial to OLD English tools and they do hold an edge. The newer ones do not seem to be the same quality steel, Sweden makes some nice ones too.
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Reply #33 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 2:22am
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Thanks Mike left you  aPM. Whitey
  
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Reply #34 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 3:13pm
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Do you have a picture of this action?
This is what mine looks like. Our I should say this is what it looked like when I got it. The stock is fit foor an oar and that is about all.
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Reply #35 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 3:23pm
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Whitey, if the above picture is not your model then someone out there is bound to have a pattern stock on hand. There are a bunch of good folks profiling now a days. If not then you can make a pattern real easy, I use a section of cheap pine, rough inlet to fit into the action and then spray the action real good with a release agent from brownels, and use modeling clay to fill all the little holes and smear bondo all over the inlet section then push it in, once it cures your halfway there. Any profilier should be able to use this rough pattern to fix you up a nice one, and the thing about pin is that it is cheap, easy to work with, just use a dry piece. I have used balsa wood too and it is easier to carve, a big belt sander helps in roughing it out. Last time I did one I used a 2x6 cut to length. Glued on a cheeck piece and it looked real good when done, I left it a bit oversize.
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Reply #36 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 5:32pm
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Mike thanks but mine is complety different Mine is the falling block design. 
I tied to post a picture. But it seems as no matter whsat I  try to post it's it's too large. I wonder how postage size pictures wpould work>? Smiley
  
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Reply #37 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 7:21pm
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Whitey, if you use a program like microsoft office picture manager and just compress it down it will go, and then recheck it, if it is above 500kb it will not go.
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Reply #38 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 7:39pm
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Are you really carving stocks Whitey, or carving out truck panels?Wink
  

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Reply #39 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 7:41pm
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Thanks Mike but this is theonly site I have a problem with. And I am too old and senile to mess with all thesedifferent progams. Smiley But thanks. Whitey
  
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Reply #40 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 10:03pm
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Whitey,
I have reduced the pictures you sent me. Will post them with your permission. The action is different, appears excellent. I have never seen pictures of one with the same operating mechanism.
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Reply #41 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 10:25pm
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2nd that advice on a quick and cheap pine stock to get things right.   

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Reply #42 - Dec 30th, 2010 at 10:43pm
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marlinguy wrote on Dec 30th, 2010 at 7:39pm:
Are you really carving stocks Whitey, or carving out truck panels?Wink

  Grin Vall when you get old and senile.. It;s easy to get side  tracked.SMile Whitey
  
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Reply #43 - Dec 31st, 2010 at 10:00am
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With Whitey's permission, here is the picture. I have never seen one like it. Link is in a different place, not sure how the extractor or hammer cocking works. Looks English and should make a fine rifle.
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Reply #44 - Dec 31st, 2010 at 10:28am
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Thanks Chuck it is for sure English,It's a Westley Richards 1878. Falling block. Whitey
  
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