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Do you mean Aqua Fortis? I considered it, but experiments with test pieces showed it was much darker than I wanted. It also apparently gets a greenish tint over time if not properly neutralized.

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Its a Beaut!

I've not much love for blonde maple stocks, but a bit of stain or aqua fortis on curly wood.......simply Beautiful.


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Stunning looking rifle. Where you sourced it from is very special


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Very cool

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Just wonderful work! That's an heirloom beauty.


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Great looking rifle and an even better story.

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That is very handsome maple.

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That is an incredible piece of wood.

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Thanks again for the compliments fellas. One fun aspect of this project was working around some of the flaws in the wood caused by worms. There were a couple worm holes filled with basically packed sawdust, and a couple spots with smaller, open pin holes. I treated the sawdust portions with wood hardener prior to finishing. The pin holes I filled with epoxy resin dyed black, which was then sanded down before finishing.

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I love the wood, story, and the work. A rifle to treasure and hopefully pass down through generations for many to enjoy.

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super cool!!!!!!!!!!!

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Beautiful rifle

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That is some kind of nice.


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Wow! that is cool on so many levels.... the lever treatment is the best I have seen on a #3 with a pistol grip... clever and well done. Makes me want to shop for a #3


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If you do, drop me a pm and I’ll explain the whole lever process. It was pretty simple. I can post some close up pics of that as well if anyone’s interested.

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Yes, please. Closeups of the lever detail would be cool. Be Well, RZ.


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OUTSTANDING!

Thanks for sharing the story of the wonderful rifle!

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I'm having trouble finding my pics from when I reworked the lever, but this shows how it started out. I mocked it up first with a piece of heavy wire bent to match the curvature of the tail placed here and there along the bow until I figured out exactly where I wanted it. Then I sent it to a tool and die micro-welder. The advantage of micro welding is that you have much fewer gaps in the welded metal.

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Somebody did a magazine article on doing that conversion to the #3 back in the 1970s or early 1980s and called it a #2. The author replaced the clunky #3 stock with a #1 buttstock and forend.

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