Woodworking

[Ebow1]

Anybody here know where I can get some precise woodworking done in the Nashville/Mid TN area? More specifically I need a 1 gram silver bar embedded into the wood grip on my charter arms undercover.

[buck1032]

If you don't find anyone local to you, my neighbor could do it. He is a retired cabinet builder and now these days he makes custom stocks. He does some really beautiful work. The last project I saw was a Browning Diana Grade shotgun that he made stocks for. One thing you should know though, he is slow and rather on the expensive side, but I assure you it would be done right.

[Caster]

If you don't find anyone local to you, my neighbor could do it. He is a retired cabinet builder and now these days he makes custom stocks. He does some really beautiful work. The last project I saw was a Browning Diana Grade shotgun that he made stocks for. One thing you should know though, he is slow and rather on the expensive side, but I assure you it would be done right.

That's the thing though, you don't ever want the person doing it to be cheap. It's like heart surgery. You don't want the lowest bidder. You want the most expensive, nit-picky guy with a god complex because he'll be the one to do it right [perfect].

Out of curiosity Elbow1, what kind of inlay are you doing?

[Ebow1]

I got some tiny (1 gram) silver bars off of ebay for a few bucks. I thought one of them would look good inlayed into the grip on my dad's old .38.

[Caster]

oh, cool. The makings of an heirloom yeah?

[Ebow1]

Yeah.

[Ebow1]

I figure if the heirloom thing works out then each generation can find their own little silver bar to put into it, as they don't take up much space.

[buck1032]

That's the thing though, you don't ever want the person doing it to be cheap. It's like heart surgery. You don't want the lowest bidder. You want the most expensive, nit-picky guy with a god complex because he'll be the one to do it right [perfect].

Very true and Ron is very good. He does some extremly beautiful checkering. I called him tonight but he was busy (father in the hospital/father in law with a broken hip).

[Armed Aviator]

PICTURES!

[buck1032]

PICTURES!

From me of Rons work? Or from Ebow?

[monkeylizard]

Yes.

[Ebow1]

Once I find a woodworker, I'll try and post before and after pictures. The guy yall have mentioned sounds great, but I'd like to find someone nearby just for the convenience factor.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

If you were not in much of a hurry, you could use some plastic and fasteners-- Knock a little bark off a tree, affix the little silver bars to the tree, and wait a few years for the tree to grow all the way around the silver bars. Then cut down the tree and slice down to the silver and make grips out of the wood.

Not very practical. I was always fascinated by stuff that trees will grow around. In the old days folks would tack barb wire fencing to little saplings, and then decades later you see the barb wire going straight thru the big old tree.

[Guest Jamie]

If you were not in much of a hurry, you could use some plastic and fasteners-- Knock a little bark off a tree, affix the little silver bars to the tree, and wait a few years for the tree to grow all the way around the silver bars. Then cut down the tree and slice down to the silver and make grips out of the wood.

Not very practical. I was always fascinated by stuff that trees will grow around. In the old days folks would tack barb wire fencing to little saplings, and then decades later you see the barb wire going straight thru the big old tree.

Or he could learn to do inlays himself... it's not that hard.

I'd volunteer to do it for him, but I don't work on other people's guns.

Oh, and Les... I have a tulip poplar here that has a piece of poly rope imbedded in it, from where I once tied something to it, then forgot to remove the rope later. Doesn't take but a few years for a fast-growing tree to consume things. And Ebow's silver bar could be rather difficult to find again, with your method. Especially since it'd also be a lot further up the tree as well, after a while.

Edited April 6, 2011 by Jamie

[Glenn]

Jamie,

I agree with what you said except the part about being further up the tree. Trees grow from the top, and out sideways, not from the bottom. It would not be any further up.

Glenn

[Guest Jamie]

Glenn, all I know is that the rope I mentioned earlier is now too high for me to reach easily ( it was originally level with the top of my fence ), and that a place I had to patch/treat on another tree I planted 18 years ago is now 20 feet up in the air ( it needed some paint over a spot insects were attacking, some 10 or 11 years back ). Both trees are Tulip Poplar. Might be different with Oak or something of the like, or in a situation where the ends of the object are anchored, like in the barbed wire example.

The poplars are fast-growing though... the one I planted was an inch in diameter and 4 ft tall when I planted it... it's now probably 30-40 ft. tall and 18 in. at the base of the trunk.

Edited April 6, 2011 by Jamie