GUNSMITHINNG

Dad and I were talking before Christmas and I think we had the same idea at the same time. Give John, Pop's old 22 rifle for Christmas. It needed to be cleaned up so I told Dad I will pick it up and give it an over hall. He told me not to grab the other old 22 rifle that it was is real bad shape and it did not work. Bingo! That will be my gift to Dad for Christmas. So I swung by and picked up the two rifles and got to work.

REMINGTON 550

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOSSBERG 151

The Mossberg was in rough shape and not working. My goal was to at least get the gun looking nice and clean with no rust and boy was there rust.

This is not a great picture but you can see most of the surface rust and it continued to the inside. After I cleaned it all up and blued. I set it out on the bar for my dad to see. When he and my Mom came home he looked at it and said wow John's gun looks good! When he realized that it was the Mossberg he was very excited. His reaction made all the work more than worth it.

NO MORE RUST!!

Jack O'Lantern

I love soccer so try to incorporate it into my life where I can so naturally when Halloween came around I wanted to make a soccer ball jack o'lantern. It didn't come out as good as I imagined but you can tell what I was trying to accomplish.  

It looked very cool in the dark with the lights but I didn't get a good night shot.

THE GATE

Well Dad and I took the plunge and bought a pop-up camper. But before that I needed a place to store it so I decided to install a gate to the green way so I can store it in the back yard. Step one knock out a big hole in the fence.

My neighbor Thomas came over to help and was a big help. We knocked out the the gates and hung them.  

Gates work great and now we were ready for a camper.

 Dad and I got a good deal on an 03 Flagstaff pop-up

Steve and broke in the new camper with some Crown Reserve. I think Steve has a UT shirt on in every picture.  

CHEST

Lindsey and I inherited a chest from her Grandmother (father's mother) after her house caught on fire. The chest has no fire damage but a fair amount of ware and tare scratches. From the one episode I caught of Antique Road Show I understand refinishing an antique will devalue it. So keeping it super coated with Pledge. Check out the before and after pictures.
BEFORE

AFTER