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3 | 42.86% |
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3 | 42.86% |
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April 18, 2011, 09:29 PM
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Current condition: Dark background with post-production color adjustment brings out the detail: Neutral grey poster board kills the detail, but shows truer color: The "white specks" in the wrist checkering are just reflections. I'm hoping the Formby's will tone down the shine. The fore end checkering does not exist. The eye sees it, but the hand can't feel it. Ghost Checkering.  It's no show piece, but I like how it turned out. I just wish it had been inletted a little better, at the factory. All this work... and the action, barrel, and floor plate still fit like a square peg in a (slightly better looking) round hole.
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April 18, 2011, 11:02 PM
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your photos didn't work
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April 19, 2011, 01:42 AM
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That's just weird.
They were uploaded to TFL. My computer shows them as being hosted by TFL. I can clear my cache, and still view them on TFL... Yet, they still weren't showing for any TFL member, but me. ...Fixed the photos.
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April 20, 2011, 11:21 AM
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Looks even better than when it was originally obtained.
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May 3, 2011, 08:33 PM
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...Done.
Lots of clean up. $30 scope. $10 rings. The old rings were thoroughly thrashed, and the old scope took a nosedive onto concrete...  Final finish was Fromby's Matte Tung Oil Finish. Okay... it's not quite done. I still need to have the trophy shop down the street cut a grip cap medallion. The old "medallion" was adhesive-backed foil. It did not survive well, with 36 years of abuse.
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