No foolin', it's April

[Silver Creek Slim]

I've got a couple pictures. I will put in a disclaimer here. The lumber I used is some rough sawn local pine I bought years ago. Some of it got wet causing gray streaking in it. So I used what I had laying around. Also, I haven't quite got the knack of squaring up rough sawn lumber yet.

This pic is a before and after of the barrel rests cut out.


This pic is the assembly so far. I have to attach the spacer blocks for the buttstocks and assemble the drawers.


I'm debating about applying some stain to help cover the gray streaks. I usually don't stain wood, just add coats of poly.

Slim

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Actually , Slim, The gray might give it a little "character" under the finish. Myself, I'd leave it that way and put the poly over it................Buck

[Delmonico]

See if the hardware store has real varnish.

[Tensleep]

Nice piece of work Slim.

[Sod Buster]

I'm ready to place my order! 
"SLIM's CUSTOM GUN CABINETS"

[Ozark Tracker]

Slim, that's looking good,  I'd vote for coating it just like it is, it would look more authenic,  I bet there werent' no stain on the lone prarie in the 1880's

gonna be anxious to see some guns in it

[Tensleep]

Was Wys-con-sin on tha prairie in tha 1880s 

[Ozark Tracker]

naw, I think the eskimos was still living there then ,   Marshall Dillion and Miss Kitty would'a froze solid.


  they'd a been a  singing  "carry me back to ole Virginny" 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Okay, I'll just put a clear coat on it.

Was Wys-con-sin on tha prairie in tha 1880s 

Some areas of Wiscoooooooooonsin were prairie, but not where I live. It was mostly pine forest with some hardwoods.

Slim

[Tensleep]

I saw Michael Landon use stain on something he fixed in tha lil house....


Is that where Lit'l rooster lives? In ah lit'l house?

[Delmonico]

We had a lot more prairie till that durn fool J. Sterling Morton come up with that dumb Arbor Day Idea.  A couple by the house to sit in the shade and a few along the crick is all that is needed.

[Ozark Tracker]

We had a lot more prairie till that durn fool J. Sterling Morton come up with that dumb Arbor Day Idea.  A couple by the house to sit in the shade and a few along the crick is all that is needed.

we had a lot of open prarie over in Oklahoma, not many big trees at all,  but I think somebody stumbled with the seed sack over here, lots of pine trees and lots of hardwood trees some of em are the old growth hardwoods, 

[Tensleep]

had to have them tipi stix over in them Okrahoma hills 

[Ozark Tracker]

most places they couldn't build a decent log cabin,  had to have them sod houses.

[Tensleep]

most places they couldn't build a decent log cabin,  had to have them sod houses.

NO TIPIS?

My bubble is burst! 

[Ozark Tracker]

oh, well them plains indians did have them tipi's,   I'm part Cherokee,  we was civilized, 

really nice day today, got up to 80 here,  now the wind has shifted to the north and the temps starting down pretty fast.

the turkeys reallly enjoy when the curtain goes down, they all stand over on the sunny side of the house just looking around.  they'll be 8 weeks old on Friday.

[Tensleep]

Indians........

civilized........

how can those werds be used in tha same sentence.... 

I been trajadized......... say it ain't so, please! 

[Ozark Tracker]

you remember in Josey Wales, when the Indian told him he was a civilized Cherokee, Josey asked him what that meant, civilized,  he told him that meant now the white people could sneak up on him without him hearing em.

[Tensleep]

you remember in Josey Wales, when the Indian told him he was a civilized Cherokee, Josey asked him what that meant, civilized,  he told him that meant now the white people could sneak up on him without him hearing em.

LOL! 

[Ozark Tracker]

have you still got some of that pie left over,  sure would go nice with my ice cream