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Offline MountainDevil54

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Hawken is DONE
« on: January 28, 2014, 03:51:00 PM »
A couple nights ago I blued the barrel and bedded the tang/trigger plate and a small section of the forward stock to prevent any side to side wiggle that may occur under recoil.


Then today I finished up all the stock work and applied the first coat of stain, this is one coat of Laurel mountain forge nut brown. It got a total of 4 coats nut brown and then for a SLIGHT reddish highlight, It will get 2 coats LMF Walnut stain. Finished off with low gloss tung oil. Shes going to be one heck of a good looker!
« Last Edit: January 30, 2014, 04:26:19 PM by MountainDevil54 »

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Re: Hawken is getting closer!
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2014, 03:55:05 PM »

Looks sweet!  Did you also use the Laurel Mt Browning for the barrel?  I have a couple underhammer barrels that I need to brown and I hear the Laurel Mt stuff is good.  Any experience w/it?

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Re: Hawken is getting closer!
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2014, 04:00:33 PM »
Yes LMF browning is some real good stuff! Add humidity to speed up process otherwise it can take a while to do.
 
I used birchwood casey perma blue gun paste, worked out excellent and left a rich blue/black finish. Followed up with 2 coats johnsons floor paste wax for protection.

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Re: Hawken is getting closer!
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2014, 04:11:47 PM »
Looks great!! :tup:
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: Hawken is getting closer!
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2014, 05:00:12 PM »
Antiqued the brass with 2 coats of the bluing paste and then washed, dried and coating with brass black, washes again and LIGHTLY buffed with steel wool to get it the color I wanted.

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Re: Hawken is getting closer!
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2014, 04:19:40 PM »
Duuuuun!




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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2014, 09:28:40 PM »
Nicely done! :tup:
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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2014, 01:27:56 PM »

Very Nice!  Time to get out and see how she shoots.  BTW, I think I will try the Laurel Mt Browning solution for my barrels.  I have a 50 cal 1/28 twist for sabots and a 62 cal w/Forsyth rifling for RB shooting in my underhammer.  Now I need to get busy so I can get out to the range too.

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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2014, 01:43:38 PM »
looks really good.  would look better laying across the royals of a dead bull, though.

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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2014, 01:47:55 PM »
That looks real good. Thought about doing something like that to one of my shotguns before I pass it down to my 9yo.
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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2014, 03:33:49 PM »
Well done........... very nice.
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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2014, 03:38:48 PM »
good looking smoke pole

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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2014, 04:52:00 PM »
wow very nice looking.

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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2014, 05:08:23 PM »
The wood turned out great!

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Re: Hawken is DONE
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2014, 05:22:05 AM »
Turned out awesome  :tup:
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