Dear BC
Thanks again.I'll pick up a copy of Kennedys' book and see if I want to give checkering a try.
I completed the epoxy repair and the tru oil finishing is going fine and fast too since I constructed a heat box.I made the box from a cardboard 12qt.Quaker State oil box which I lined with tin foil and added a 40 watt bulb.Now I can complete several coats a day.
The 444 Trapper is my project and I'm having lots of fun experimenting and doing all the work myself.I'm using it as a platform to make my own custom rifle.When the 444 was first introduced I was a poor college student.I wanted to buy one but couldn't afford to because of the high tuition cost--$6.00 an hour for graduate credit at the university.
Oh well; guess I'm never too old to have a happy childhood.
Jeff
Thanks again.I'll pick up a copy of Kennedys' book and see if I want to give checkering a try.
I completed the epoxy repair and the tru oil finishing is going fine and fast too since I constructed a heat box.I made the box from a cardboard 12qt.Quaker State oil box which I lined with tin foil and added a 40 watt bulb.Now I can complete several coats a day.
The 444 Trapper is my project and I'm having lots of fun experimenting and doing all the work myself.I'm using it as a platform to make my own custom rifle.When the 444 was first introduced I was a poor college student.I wanted to buy one but couldn't afford to because of the high tuition cost--$6.00 an hour for graduate credit at the university.
Oh well; guess I'm never too old to have a happy childhood.
Jeff
