Thread: Hot Oil stock bending

an interesting point I noted also about stock bending is the higher grade timbers are easier to bend than the lower grades !

Funny I was with my employer the other day and he is a guy that tutu's heaps with guns and he showed me his Holland and Holland that he was restoring -a job I wouldn't take on but he has .

The side plates were well worn and he some time back purchased an engraving machine which he has shown to have a little proficiency with .He pulled a side plate and showed me his engraving which to be honest wasn't to bad given the work he had to do on the surface to get it to a standard worth working on . He then proceeded to tell me the one problem he has had with the engraving -he spelt Holand and Holand wrong -yes you saw it ...with one L .........

Thats a L of a fuck up!

Fark Rushy that guy looked just like you. If your not into quality old english shotguns Rushy just shoot it the way it is, or park the Highlander on it overnight!

Originally Posted by Maca49

Fark Rushy that guy looked just like you. If your not into quality old english shotguns Rushy just shoot it the way it is, or park the Highlander on it overnight!

He'd get a better result sitting on it

Originally Posted by Gibo

He'd get a better result sitting on it

are you suggesting Rushy uses the hot gas method

Originally Posted by el borracho

are you suggesting Rushy uses the hot gas method

Ha Ha Yeah hot gas then cold press Im just helping you out after all the shit he's been giving you lately

its a bonehill box lock , not an expensive gun but must say very nice piece of wood !through bolt i would say it would have to -dont they all have one? off to the smith to make good the butt pad on Wednesday

The one I just pulled to bits doesnt have a bolt and I cant recall a bolt on the one I had before that either.

Bloody hell look at this. I go away for a few hours and Maca and Gibo are into me with the boot. Bastards it'll keep.

ill have a look at the smiths on Wednesday - i thought they all had a long shaft into the action through the stock but im but a novice

a good point groundcontrol,a bolt through the stock will complicate things.the italalians were the first to make this practice widespread,although it is fairly universal now,especially with u/o,but english s/s are still made the traditional way.before attempting any bending you need to establish if the butt stock is held by a bolting system.ie remove the butt plate/pad and have a look. the guy in the video ,jack rowe, i think he is in his late eighties in this clip, is/was regarded as one of the great experts in all facets of english gunmaking.what he appears to be doing so casually has a tremendous depth of experience behind it.

A lot of the English guns dont have a butt bolt. I can recall my father bending shotgun butts, an interesting process