The CVA Hawken Project Part II, stock is sanded down, brass cleaned up, getting it ready for stain.
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- In this video I go over how the stock of the CVA Hawken was sanded down and the prep work done on it, the brass and getting the wood ready for stain which will be the next step.
Track of the Wolf has a drawing up to scale, of the Hawken. The parts are also numbered for ordering from Track. I cast my first Nosecap from wheel weight alloy, then filed it down. The rest I have ordered from Track. I have been to the original shop in Hagerstown, and seen Jim Bridgers rifle in the smithonian. My wife's great great Grandfather carried one when he Walked the Plains to Utah. I will be making a copy of it one day. I just finished my Gemmer, and I am refiinishing it this day. I am doing some leather work, kinda rough, and then I can get to the Cannon rifle. I already made the barrel, and breech plug. Oh yeah, I hope you made toe plates for the rifles. Easy to do, the hardware store has steel in the width and you can cut the front with a jewelers saw. Kinda fun for sure. Good luck they look good so far.
Doc
Also, it was routine to move the sights as the shooter got older. Lead was used to filll the dovetail, and a new dovetail was filed into the barrel. The old dovetail was filled in and pounded flat, and the new dovetail was used.
Nose caps on all Hawkens were steel. Polished and left on the stock. Same with the wedges and tenon plates. These were also left in the stock and also steel. They were never removed from the stock after installation.
The bolsters need to be sharpened. The Hawken bros also made the edges front and back were equal.