Thanks for sharing. Remarkable workmanship. If I heard right, the stock finisher said 1000 coats. I can see why.
Figure of speech, "thousand coats", but rest assured, they do not apply 1000 coats of finish. Regardless, it’s a great video and I enjoyed it muchly, actually more so than some others on the British trade that I thought were mighty good. JR
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Thanks for posting that. I have a Westley Richards/damascus barrels, self opener and a somewhat unusual counter mounted into the top of the stock(ostensibly to keep track of birds in the bag, misses or whatever). One of my favorites. I will look at the film tomorrow.
Thanks for sharing. Remarkable workmanshipWR stock finishing. If I heard right, the stock finisher said 1000 coats. I can see why.
Figure of speech, "thousand coats", but rest assured, they do not apply 1000 coats of finish. Regardless, it’s a great video and I enjoyed it muchly, actually more so than some others on the British trade that I thought were mighty good. JR
This blog post says 1000 coats over a 6 week period to get the high gloss finish they want. They use 60 coats of red oil to get the color they want prior to the oil finish.
Thanks for sharing. Remarkable workmanshipWR stock finishing. If I heard right, the stock finisher said 1000 coats. I can see why.
Figure of speech, "thousand coats", but rest assured, they do not apply 1000 coats of finish. Regardless, it’s a great video and I enjoyed it muchly, actually more so than some others on the British trade that I thought were mighty good. JR
This blog post says 1000 coats over a 6 week period to get the high gloss finish they want. They use 60 coats of red oil to get the color they want prior to the oil finish.
Leaving off Saturdays and Sundays, 6 weeks = 30 days. 1000 divided by 30 = 33.3 coats a day. Given an 8 hour work day, with one 30 minute lunch breaks, that's 450 minutes a day divided by 33.3, that's 13.5 coats an hour. I remain highly skeptical, but remain open to any explanations how that's doable. 6 months, sure. JR
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I can believe that it takes 1000 coats and that is why these high end guns take a year to make. I like the Syracuse L.C. Smith's and the early Fulton ones before 1912 and have read from an article that the higher graded guns were oil finished and took as many coats as needed to bring out the high lite of the grain. In some of the records it states when gun was started and when finished and many times it was close to a year.
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