Yul Lose

Might want to use a dry media or wet tumbler to clean your brass instead of an ultrasonic cleaner. They both do a better job of cleaning brass than an ultrasonic cleaner does.

A craftsman for sure and a real nice man. He built this set of grips and I was fortunate enough to be able to meet him and pick them up when I was up there on a hunting trip. Rest in peace, Patrick.

Your second thought was Mrs. Loses first thought. I guess it’s stored in a glass display case in France.

I like to search Pinterest for interesting woodworking pieces. Here’s one that I found this morning. It ships from France so I’d imagine shipping will be $20k or more. It was built in the 1980’s. The more I study it the more I see. If those joints that Subdeacon Joe posted the other day make your head hurt this thing might make it explode.

Since I’m not building gun carts anymore I’ve got lots of time on my hands and my oldest daughter showed me a picture of a table that she liked so I studied up on what a trestle or farm table is. There are hundreds of different types on Pinterest and she picked out one design that she liked and bought the first batch of lumber. I was in a quandary on how I was going to do a lot of the hidden joinery and talked with a few woodworkers that have high praise for the Festool DR700 XL Domino joiner. I watched one in action and lots of YouTube videos and made the leap and bought one. It’s pretty pricey but for this table it’s a great tool and the domino joinery is very strong. Mrs. Lose was out in the shop checking my progress on the table and I showed her the Domino joiner in action and now she wants me to build a table just like the one that I’m building for my daughter to replace our 40 year+ dining table. I told her that if I built a new table that she’d have to spring for the Festool dust collector because the Domino joiner really creates the sawdust. The one picture is of the leg bases with the Domino pockets cut and then with the Dominos installed dry, no glue. The one picture is of one of the leg posts with the domino pockets cut. There are a couple of pictures of the dry fitted leg assemblies also.

I’ve always wanted to visit Major League Baseball parks in other cities and my youngest son and I have been talking about maybe hitting half of them in 2026 and the remainder in 2027. He says he found an app that will help plan the trips and ensure that there’s a game when you’re there. Have any of you done anything like this? I’ve been to Candlestick in San Francisco but it’s gone now and I’ve been to Angels Stadium in Anaheim and Dodger Stadium in L.A. the park in Phoenix where the D Backs play, Coors field in Denver and the Kingdome in Seattle but it’s gone now too. Petco Park in San Diego numerous times. Wrigley Field, Camden Yards, Fenway Park in Boston and Miller Park in Milwaukee look like fun parks to visit too.

Great travel documentary, Scout. Keep them coming. Places I’d like to visit someday but likely never will.

The copper buffalo nickle buttons are 21mm+ and a 21mm Forstner bit is a little tight but a little light sanding with 120 grit paper on a sanding block makes for a very nice fit. If you need any additional info PM me and I’ll try to help you out.

A larger buffalo nickel button on a lid lift. Some of these would also fit on Vaquero grip panels also, a little larger but they would fit and look pretty good.

Here is a button from my button collection that might work for you. There’s also a picture of this button inlayed in one of my lid lifts for a box that I’m building. The button is just under 20mm in size and I laid it on a grip and it would fit. A 20mm Forstner bit is what I used to drill the pocket for the button on the lid lift

I’ve dealt with many, many pards in the Wire Classifieds and have never had a problem with their personal check. Wait until it clears to ship the item, very secure.

I was getting ready to move to Dallas, Tx. in 1984 and they had a going away party for me and the pistachio farmer mentioned above gave me a 100lb bag of roasted, salted pistachios as a going away gift. Needless to say they were a hit in a bowl on my desk at the two way radio shop that I went to work for.

I bought these black and silver Ruger Bisley grips from Beartrap here in the classifieds and today I got around to customizing them for my 44-40 Bisleys with octagon barrels. I use buttons similar to these as hole covers on the gun carts that I built. The ones on the gun carts are 21mm and these are 15 mm. I use Forstner bits to drill the holes. A 16mm is a bit to large and the 15 a bit to snug but a little sanding or whetstoning gives a very good fit without much work. The epoxy is not quite dry so in the morning I’ll mount them on the guns and post another picture. These grip panels had the Ruger bird medallions and the hole that they were in was way too small for these buffalo buttons to fit. I built a small clamping jig to hold the grip panels in the proper location because without anything to guide the center tip of the Forstner bit it tended to dance around. Anyway I think they turned out pretty good and not that hard to do.

I was told by a pistachio farmer years ago that the red dyed ones were from Iran and Iraq. The ones grown in the U.S. were left their natural color.

I don’t get emails from SASS, what’s the vote about?

In 1979 or 1980 I was working as a two-way radio/mobile phone installer. One afternoon the owner of the business and the service manager were having a heated argument, I could hear it and see it and the name Barry Goldwater and senator kept coming up. The owner of the company walked out to the shop where I was installing a radio and told me that before I left for the day that I was to pack up all of my installation tools and program a new Motorola Pulsar II mobile phone and meet him at the shop early the next morning. The next morning we met at the shop and loaded all of my stuff and the phone into his suburban and drove out to the Casa Grande, Az. airport north of town. He was a pilot and had a hangar out there and we pulled up to the hanger and he opened it up and we tugged his plane out and then we waited. He was very tight lipped and I didn’t know what was going on. After a while this plane flew over, circled and landed and pulled up to the hangar. The plane shut down and the door opened and U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater comes walking down the steps, just him no security detail. Ed, my boss and I moved the plane into the hangar and closed the door. For the next 5-6 hours Ed and I installed a Pulsar II mobile phone in the airplane. I’d never done that type of install before but I guess Ed had in his Air Force days. While we were doing the install Barry took Ed’s suburban and disappeared and when he came back and I’d went over the operation of the phone with him he handed me 5 $100.00 bills! I was only making about $450.00 a month back then so I was overjoyed. Little did I know that what my boss and I had just done was highly illegal because neither one of us was certified to install, maintain or repair aircraft electronics or to perform work of any kind on an aircraft. How did I find that out? The argument that Ed and the service manager were having the afternoon before was about all of the illegalities that were being overlooked to install a direct dial mobile phone in the Senators airplane. After we got back to the shop and Ed had left the service manager gave me an earful on FAA regulations. The $500.00 tip now made sense.

Probably much, much cheaper than NASA could do it for too.

Your new venue is outstanding. I shot the DamSite match and was very impressed with the new range. Hope to be up there in the fall to shoot with your group.

I tried but gave up, the internet was virtually unusable on T Mobile.

Sorry to hear about Nicks passing. When I first got into CAS, Walker 47 was the place to go for about everything I needed and Nick was a wealth of information and help. I’ll be there on the 27th.

You’re welcome. The screws that I used almost exclusively were the brass plated steel square drive, I found that solid brass screws with the square drive head broke a lot easier because of the additional torque of the square drive.

Check out McFeeleys. They sell a large selection of square drive screws and quality bits and square drive drivers.

If you do go to square drive screws spend a little extra on the good bits, you’ll be glad you did.

I gave up on using reclaimed shot a long time ago. With 16 gauge , even banging on the drop tube I’d still get consistent bridging. Polished 7 1/2 fed a little better but #9 totally solved the problem.

They don’t have them all and it’s none of our business how many they have. Maybe they really like them and collect them. I used to have 7 pairs but am down to 2 pairs now. Might buy more in the future, nine back ups might not be enough for some people.