My new R92 story....
Re: My new R92 story....
That rifle looks good. Thanks for letting us in on how you accomplished that look.
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Re: My new R92 story....
Yup thats what I did. What happened with me and Photobucket was all the thumbnails were still there but the actual files were corrupted even though I met all of their limits. As you said it was only for posting but it's still kind of ticked me off.
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Re: My new R92 story....
I can't see the images (the two "flickr" images)
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Re: My new R92 story....
What you say about photobucket warning people who were using their service is true.
However, I run into webpages on an almost daily basis, where the photobucket hosted pictures are missing. That makes the tutorial or review or explanation or the article much less useful and in many cases totally useless.
You can say that if the poster cared they could have either paid for their pics to stay up or they could have edited the links or they could repost the information.
Maybe, but some of the authors have moved on and so they maybe they don't care. Some may no longer be with us. On this forum threads that have not been posted to in a certain length of time are locked from further posts, I don't know if that means posts in those threads also can't be edited but I suspect so.
The net is in no way a permanent record and it isn't good to expect it to be so but I don't like to add additional failure points.
However, I run into webpages on an almost daily basis, where the photobucket hosted pictures are missing. That makes the tutorial or review or explanation or the article much less useful and in many cases totally useless.
You can say that if the poster cared they could have either paid for their pics to stay up or they could have edited the links or they could repost the information.
Maybe, but some of the authors have moved on and so they maybe they don't care. Some may no longer be with us. On this forum threads that have not been posted to in a certain length of time are locked from further posts, I don't know if that means posts in those threads also can't be edited but I suspect so.
The net is in no way a permanent record and it isn't good to expect it to be so but I don't like to add additional failure points.
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Re: My new R92 story....
Yeah, I'm getting the text "Image" in Firefox and in Edge I get a tiny icon plus the text but no pic.mr surveyor wrote:I can't see the images (the two "flickr" images)
jd
Where Reese-Mo posted the lever gap pic on another thread I can see it.
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Re: My new R92 story....
Just used em for posting, they had all the thumbnails, but actual files were corrupted. I have 99.9 percent of pictures on a pair of usb drives, is just a pain
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Re: My new R92 story....
Sorry I've been up to my neck in stuff here... from building FrankenMower (parts from 4 mowers making one that cuts my grass...), to pet issues, to crazy Brit girlfriend (every day for the last 13 years is a new episode of Monte Python with her!)... anyway...
I put the images, from my local PC, onto the "92 picture thread".
Hopefully they show up there.
The metal is all done, the wood is in a process....
The process is - chemical strip of the old finish, which was a form of died matte urethane. That came out pretty well a few days ago. Wood was red/blonde underneath. I've built something like 14 or 15 guitars, and I'll swear that its mahogany, of a lesser grade. It looks/feels has the grain of mahogany. I've got neck blanks that look so similar. At any rate, it took my dye pretty well. The dye being a dark "walnut" Mohawk stain in acetone, with some hard wax dissolved in it. The idea there, is penetration with the acetone, which evaporates, leaving the wax "in the wood". I call that Danish finish, but that's just me. Now its got three coats of boiled linseed with Japan dry added. I find that this will take about 15 applications, so the wood is "in process". After that a muslin rag buff to a sort of not shiny/not dull finish. I guess you'd call it a rubbed looking finish. It looks good on gunstocks, and my old Martini .22 target rifle is done up that way, so I hope the Rossi will be ok with it. Pics show the "factory" wood finish.
I put the images, from my local PC, onto the "92 picture thread".
Hopefully they show up there.
The metal is all done, the wood is in a process....
The process is - chemical strip of the old finish, which was a form of died matte urethane. That came out pretty well a few days ago. Wood was red/blonde underneath. I've built something like 14 or 15 guitars, and I'll swear that its mahogany, of a lesser grade. It looks/feels has the grain of mahogany. I've got neck blanks that look so similar. At any rate, it took my dye pretty well. The dye being a dark "walnut" Mohawk stain in acetone, with some hard wax dissolved in it. The idea there, is penetration with the acetone, which evaporates, leaving the wax "in the wood". I call that Danish finish, but that's just me. Now its got three coats of boiled linseed with Japan dry added. I find that this will take about 15 applications, so the wood is "in process". After that a muslin rag buff to a sort of not shiny/not dull finish. I guess you'd call it a rubbed looking finish. It looks good on gunstocks, and my old Martini .22 target rifle is done up that way, so I hope the Rossi will be ok with it. Pics show the "factory" wood finish.
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Re: My new R92 story....
Looking forward to seeing the new look.
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Re: My new R92 story....
On the older rifles, the finish tended to come off with moisture and turned ones skin orange. We referred to the wood as mystery jungle wood. Some times the stock would have some grain to it and other times, it was hard to see any.
Brazil has a lot of mahogany. Perhaps they are using the non furniture quality for stocks these days.
It sounds like yours is going to be very nice!!
Brazil has a lot of mahogany. Perhaps they are using the non furniture quality for stocks these days.
It sounds like yours is going to be very nice!!
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