What work did you just do?

[Trophyhunter49]

  Nce site there Carl

[eric]

this to this

[quickster47 †]

Nice transformation eric.  Excellent job.

Carl

[ped]

thats come up well the stock looks real nice
ped

[breakfastchef]

this to this

Nice job on the stock. You would not know the grain was so nice under the original finish.

Why did you decide to cut the barrel?

[BDS]

Nicely done Eric  , I have done similar to several guns... i.e. strip and remove that god-awful factory stain and just use a light, clear-ish stain or even Old English followed by mutliple waxings. Even my humble little Daisy 22SG pumper looks classic now after a stain facelift.

Those opaque type finishes used by the OEMs are crap-ola! 

[dan_house]

Last night I perfromed the first full, functional assembly of my Gauntlet build.

And now have a list of things a mile long to fix or tweak.

[eric]

Nice transformation eric.  Excellent job.

Carl

thanks carl  ----  this was/has been a long time coming project.

thats come up well the stock looks real nice
ped

thanks ped 

[eric]

Nice job on the stock. You would not know the grain was so nice under the original finish.

Why did you decide to cut the barrel?

thanks larry. the barrel was badly pitted towards the muzzle and it was kind of an experiment as well ---- i have another barrel for it from my other 160 plus i wanted a little carbine 

Nicely done Eric  , I have done similar to several guns... i.e. strip and remove that god-awful factory stain and just use a light, clear-ish stain or even Old English followed by mutliple waxings. Even my humble little Daisy 22SG pumper looks classic now after a stain facelift.

Those opaque type finishes used by the OEMs are crap-ola! 

thanks brian .these old factory stains are god awful fer shur

[BigErn]

this to this

OMG!!!! 

[eric]

thanks bigern 

[BigErn]

Eric if I knew how to cut and crown barrels like you all my guns would look like that! I just love short barrel rifles and you have some of the very best I've seen 

[eric]

Eric if I knew how to cut and crown barrels like you all my guns would look like that! I just love short barrel rifles and you have some of the very best I've seen 

i like the carbine look as well --- i have another 160 that i replaced the oem barrel with a lw barrel and it is a tad longer ,so i figured a shorter, lighter 160 was needed     

[targettgii]

That did turn out really nice Eric great work.

[eric]

That did turn out really nice Eric great work.

thanks tom --- there will more about this in another thread in the near future