Finally organized the patterns. About 10 more to put on the racks, will finish tomorrow.

Sorry about the big photo, scroll to the right to see all.

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Originally posted by ramrod340:
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Naw been wanting to do this for years. Call it prepping for getting rid of all the stuff I have collected.

'Tis a shame as I do not duplicate stocks for $$. Most of the stocks and patterns I picked up at gun shows years ago. Made a few of them. I tried to sell the duplicator and patterns earlier this year but no takers.

I love getting organizized :-) especially inventing your own stuff.

The one wrapped in paper.. nice drop.

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Originally posted by richj:
I love getting organizized :-) especially inventing your own stuff.

The one wrapped in paper.. nice drop.

I like it but for the fact that some idiot cut the front of the stock off!!! I will modify it a bit and extend the formed, and use the pattern for a stock for my 9.3x62.

It is the bottom stock in this photo:

No problem finding blanks long enough for that?

great idea

Looks kinda like your work area is in an old slaughter house.

Steve.........

Got my patterns hanging in rows on the wall. Have to rely on the name I put on them to remember what they are. Since all I see is the bottoms.

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Originally posted by ramrod340:
Got my patterns hanging in rows on the wall. Have to rely on the name I put on them to remember what they are. Since all I see is the bottoms.

Yep. Put 5 more up this morning and I am sticking on tape with the model No. on all of the stocks.

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Originally posted by Steve E.:
Looks kinda like your work area is in an old slaughter house.

Steve.........

Well when I was a teen I helped out on a 60,000 acre plantation that was over run with wild cattle. They had to go as timber management and planting seedlings was up and coming. The cattle ate the seedlings. So a butcher facility with cold storage was built in the middle of the land and we young'uns hunted down the cattle and hauled them back to the "butcher area" using a tractor pulling a trailer. So I learned a lot about skinning and butchering. I guess the hanging part stuck!

Darn cattle got wilder than deer after we shot a few dozen and it became a stalking game, working upwind so they would not smell us and spook. In the past Brahmans were used for herd sires and the blood lines held true: I have a few stories about a big 'ol bull taking offense to my presence.

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Originally posted by Big Gorilla Gunworks:
No problem finding blanks long enough for that?

The top stock is for a M98, it is an old Herters.

I have a few slabs of Oregon Walnut large enough to cut blanks out of for the Mannlicher style stocks.

Amazing. A little blue tape and a black marker and now I can find a pattern without searching through all.

Where was the 60,000 acres at? When growing up we had about 3600 acres and ran cattle and soy beans. One of our neighbors had about 15 Brahman cows with one old bull and man he was huge. His hump looked almost as big as me. That was probably the only bull I was ever really scared of. The owner said he killed a Hereford bull at the place he bought him from.

Steve.......

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Originally posted by WoodHunter:
Amazing. A little blue tape and a black marker and now I can find a pattern without searching through all.

Had to revive this after seeing the pic of your shop- all amazingly clean looking and sawdust-free!

I sequestered my duplicator off into a corner of the shop, where it's literally walled off into a tiny room with the dust collection system. I don't even walk in there without a respirator because of all the "fines".

Before I did that, my entire shop would be covered in sawdust top to bottom, and I couldn't stand it. No dust collection system Ive ever seen is adaptable to these open router tables spewing sawdust and chips at 20,000 rpms in all directions- maybe a huge hood sucking 10,000 cfm would do it lol. What in the world is your secret to keeping an inch of sawdust off everything in your shop, not mention out of your lungs?

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Originally posted by Big Gorilla Gunworks:

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Originally posted by WoodHunter:
Amazing. A little blue tape and a black marker and now I can find a pattern without searching through all.

Had to revive this after seeing the pic of your shop- all amazingly clean looking and sawdust-free!

I sequestered my duplicator off into a corner of the shop, where it's literally walled off into a tiny room with the dust collection system. I don't even walk in there without a respirator because of all the "fines".

Before I did that, my entire shop would be covered in sawdust top to bottom, and I couldn't stand it. No dust collection system Ive ever seen is adaptable to these open router tables spewing sawdust and chips at 20,000 rpms in all directions- maybe a huge hood sucking 10,000 cfm would do it lol. What in the world is your secret to keeping an inch of sawdust off everything in your shop, not mention out of your lungs?

11,000 rpm spindle speed. 3/4" dia. cutters for roughing. Just about all of the chips stay in the plywood box bolted to the underside of the duplicator.

And the "Force" helps, note Yoda standing on the top of the carriage.

I need to get me a Yoda
My routers are run through a variable speed controller and dialing them down doesn't have that effect on dust control, just slows down the stock removal.

Ha!

We raised those "Damn sacred cows!!"

Some would eat cake from a hand held bucket.
Others we had to carry a club to keep 'em out of
our ass pockets!

Old Slash, raven black except a white lightning slash across her face. Personality to match too!

Laid down with her ass under a gate and had a calf. Wouldn't accept it.
We stretched her out between poles in the shed twice a day and milked her out.
Four months, twice a day and she never once let the calf suck ,or changed her attitude.

Glad when she went to the sale.

Sure can get an education around those suckers.


Visited Ed Shulin's shop several times. Smoky fine dust in the air all the time.
Burned my chest for hours afterward.
No wonder Ed died of lung cancer and he did the router work in a small closed room wearing a respirator too.

George

Pretty sure Ed died of pancreatic cancer.

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Originally posted by Big Gorilla Gunworks:
I need to get me a Yoda
My routers are run through a variable speed controller and dialing them down doesn't have that effect on dust control, just slows down the stock removal.

Mine has big high torque constant speed motors that do not bog under heavy cuts. The duplicator was originally built for production work in the Furniture Industry. The big 3/4" roughing cutters really move the wood.

Ive been shamed!! mine hang on wooden pegs on the wall..If I could get to them I would do something industrious like that, its on my bucket list..pretty full bucket however. Nice job..I need to first add another 40 feet to my 40 by 20 shop plumb full of trinkets, toys. saddles, ropes gun stuff tools and machinery and a old man that has lost his industrias (if that's a word manner).. the misses wants me to inventory it and put prices on all of it..I havn't told her I haven't got time unless I make it 150 years old.