Leather cover for gun a stock: how to make a cover that protects your stock and look good doing it.
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- I have wanted to make a cover for the stock of this flintlock for a while now. To protect it from getting any more dents or scratches. While this is a one off item custom made for a handmade firearm the same techniques can be used to make one similar for other types of firearms. I have seen these used on, and sometimes made these, for shotguns, muzzle-loaders, bolt and lever action rifles. Includes how I made the pattern. How I skive edges for a mitered seam and then how I stitch and finish that mitered seam. The dragon pattern was drawn to complement the dragon shaped brass side plate on this particular flintlock blunderbuss.
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Love your Design and Carving, and your texturing of the scallop tool for Dragon SKIN.
You make that look easy because you are very talented! Enjoyed watching your process.
Thank you!
Beautiful artistry.
Good job, love the Carving
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this especially the modification of the viener to make dragon scales
Your welcome, and thanks for watching
Totally beautiful! Thanks for the video.
Thank you for watching!
Very nice work! I'd like to try that except I'd do it for my black powder shotgun and add loops for 6 shells on the one side.
Nice work, thanks for sharing the process
Thanks for watching!
Incredible Dragon It is such a joy to see your craftsmanship I’m a very I’m a beginner and how do I anything yet but it’s definitely inspires me to try and make something a pleasure anyway you can make like a list of tools that you used just to make it easier for us newbies thank you so much and please continue making more videos
Thank you very much! Tool lists may not be very accurate because I have older tools and some of them are completely different sizes than what is available now. Some of them are ones I made for myself. What I used for this carving was: Swivel knife, A104, A114, B971, B203 that I modified with a checkering file, B936, F910, F976, F899, F900, the viener I altered to make the scale texture, and a modeling tool with large and small spoon tips.
Well made and very well executed.
Thank you.
That is great work I’m just starting my leather working . Brand new to the hobby. I’ll look forward to more videos
Awesome! Thank you!
Where do you buy sheets of leather you made this with?
@Cecil Warren some from Tandy leather, but anything that I am planning to carve I like to use Hermann Oak I buy from Springfield leather. Another good vendor I have bought from is Weaver leather.
Great work! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Awesome video brother. Appreciate your content.
Thank you very much! Thanks for watching!
Wow..nice work!!!!!
Good job
Thank you!
Thank you!
Beautiful i copied the same way you did but without any design
Excellent
nice work !
Nicely done. Enjoyed a full-watch. 👍🏽🙂 3/27/22
Thank you for watching!
nice tooling
Thank you!
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Thanks for watching!
This is a great work ! Thanks for sharing it. I even decided to make my own.
Do you use linen or nylon thread ? Of what diameter ?
The thread I used on this is polyester. I do not know what diameter it is. Definitely bigger than the 346 nylon thread I use on my machine.
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@@bransonsgeneralstore Thanks for the answer :)
Nice work!! Was that Scotch-bright you used to apply stain? Obviously it works but I'm surprised it's not too abrasive.
I use scraps of sheep skin also called shearling to apply most of the stains and finishes I use.
Beautiful work 👌🏻 is it necessary to boil the leather when it’s finished? I’ve just made something similar for my SMLE.
Like most leather keep it clean and every now and then wipe it down with some neatsfoot oil. Maybe use something with wax in it like snow proof if you plan to be out in the rain much.
What weight leather did you use in this ? Great work .
It's about 9oz. It doesn't really need to be anywhere near that heavy. Probably 5-6oz or 6-7 would be my normal choice for a stock cover, but I went thicker for this one because it is on a 10 pound 4 bore monstrous blunderbuss.
Awesome work. What tool did you use to transfer the image from the tracing paper to the leather
A modeling tool with a stylus point. Basically anything that comes to a point and is not sharp enough to cut through the tracing film will work.
What weight leather did you use?
I used 8-10 oz for this one because it is on a heavy 10 pound flintlock. Most normal rifle stocks I would probably use 6-7 or 7-8 oz.
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