wood block simple trigger/hammer jig fer trigger job

[rifle]

I learned a trick, probably from lookin at tools and such in the Brownells catalog .....which sits in a place of honor next to  my throne.
I ended up makin a hard wood block with a coupla holes the right size and spacing to make a trigger/hammer jig fer helpin with trigger jobs.
I used a piece of paper on the side of the gun to get a pattern of the holes for the hammer and trigger and used the pattern to drill holes in the wood block.
I drill the holes tight for the hammer and trigger screws and a little wide for the shank and less wide for the threads at the end.
All I had to do was screw the screws into the hard wood block to have a jig fer that gun that let me set the parts on it screwed in and SEE what the heck I was doing.
I could see ifin there was negative or neutral or positive engagement angles on the trigger and hammer to set a good trigger job.Make that,"breaks like a glass rod", kinda trigger let off that's the safe kind. In my opinion.
It only took a matter of minutes to make the wood trigger job block jig (since I had some blocks about a few inches square and a coupla inches thick). I won't mess with a trigger anymore, since then, without the hammer/trigger wood block jig made first for each gun(cap&baller). Even if all I want to do is polish or smooth up some.
I wouldn't want to smooth up a trigger that had neutral or negative engagement to it.

I won't even smooth up or polish without makin a block jig first. I wouldn't want to make one for a semi auto though.

Anywhooooo.....anyone can make one of the hammer/trigger wood jigs fer a trigger tune up. That way to "see" what's up and make a safe but nice trigger......instead of polishing and gettin closer to a hair trigger.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Good suggestion, Rifle!

Thanks for posting it!

[Thumper]

Rifle, I took a page from your book when rebuilding that old Scottish revolver( I remembered an easrlier post on the wood jig), except I made the entire hammer and sear out of wood then duped it in metal..with some "style changes at the end.

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[Pettifogger]

Nice job!!!  Fabbing a part when you don't know what the original looked like is tough.

[Thumper]

Actually, on the flip side, it was IMPOSSIBLE to get it wrong!!

[Professor Marvel]

Greetings My Good Thumper!

it is good to see that you and Rfile made it over here, glad to see you both.

yhs
prof marvel

[Smokin Gun]

Still a good Jig Rifle I remember that tool well when ya made it.  And Thumper good job of one with Old Scotty there...
Professor Marvel good to see you as always...
SG

[Thumper]

Thanx Professor, rifle is the one who just told me this site wasn't just for CAS members if I'd known that I'd have come over sooner.

[Smokin Gun]

Been here since 2005 Thumper I guess Rifle and I and the Boys shudda spoke more on it. Again good job on the Scottish Jig ;O)
And welcome as a member...

[Thumper]

See that SG, cause of your CRS....I'm stylishly late to the party, just as it should be LOL. And thanks for the compliment on that little Scottish job.

[Professor Marvel]

Greetings SG!
I forgot you were in here as well!
I do believe the day job is not only eating up all the Happiness Juice in my brain, but my Memory Cells as well....

I just had to spend almost 4 hours telling 3 different customers
    "what is it about ' no ticky no washee' that you cannot understand? "

It's about the fourth time for each of them, too. Lordy , I am about worn out dreamning up new and non-obscene ways to  tell the demanding ones  to go to hell in a  manner in which they will enjoy the ride (politley) .

It is wearing out my poor little grey cells! never mind , i said that already..

We now return you to your previous thread,
"Wood Blockheads, and simpletons hammering on me for free service"
"  wood block simple trigger/hammer jig fer trigger job "

your worn out servant
prof grumpy marvel

[Raven]

Thumper,
Great job on the old Scot!! I once had a Belgiun Pinfire revolving rifle in the shop that was missing all its internals. Found a hammer at a gunshow ( a couple of days after it came in) that I thought would make a good pattern.......amazing thing is it practicly dropped in. I still had to make a trigger and main spring, but the gun was finished in under 3 weeks....I had prepped the customer for a long wait so he was stoked.....I was a little really amazed myself to buy a drop in hammer for a 160 year old rifle.

Prof. Grumpy Marvel,
We all have those days and any of us workin their own businesses have a few customers who need a little hand holding and the occasional spanking
Hang in there and you will soon be your usual pontificating self.

Raven

[rifle]

Maaaaaaaan, nice Scottish pistol Thumper. I'd say you brought it back to the world of the living/functioning quite well. That's a good way to fabricate a missing/unknown/deep in the dark abyss  of the unknown part. Pullin a rabbit out of the hat when ya don't know what a rabbit is .....is......well......magic.
You da man Thumper,you da man.
You got any pics of that Savage and North you brought back from the deepest recesses of hell?
I gotta get this puter thing set up to show pics.

[Thumper]

Hey rifle, the Scottish gun also needed springs, a loading lever retainer and a new front site, oh yeah and a bridge to hold it all together on the frame behind the trigger. Took so much work and it's so damn pretty I refuse to sell it, much to my wifes chagrin. Get your email up and runnin and I'll send you pic's of the whole shiteroo. Here's the Savage, notice the loading lever, I made a 51 Colt leaver work instead of the original. Starts as a box-o-parts. Got some grips from Dave.



Here's a Manhattan I saved from an untimely death also. Notice the broken hammer (bunch of other stuff too). Also shortened the bbl a couple of inches.