This is a quest to make all the slides featured in the Whittlin Jim's "Slide of the Month" in Boy's Life magazine. (Hopefully without doing lasting damage to my hands or fingers.) Blogging my progress along the way. I completed my task in March of 2017 and now post my own designs along with some other "Slide of the Month" contributors.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Derringer
Late in August 2009
Carving Time: 5 hrs
Finishing Time: 2 hrs
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It's 11:30 at night.
It is pouring outside.
I am dry inside my sleeping bag but I can't sleep. (Perhaps 8+ cups of coffee during the all day training might have just been a bit too much.)
I grab my headlamp, knife, a block of pine, the pattern, and chipped away. Three hours latter I am covered in wood shavings and finally tired enough to sleep. Brushing off as much as I could I fell into a deep sleep. Up the next day at 5 AM I got a good look at the body of the gun I carved that night. Not bad I thought and now I looked around the tent. It was like a wood chipper exploded in the tent. I got dressed grabbed the carving and some sandpaper then headed off to breakfast. It rained all day and right into the next night. So again I am carving, the hammer this time, trying to sleep. By the time the training is done, I am 80% done with this slide. Stopped by my local hardware store on the way home and picked up a sheet of brass to finish up the last parts of the slide. I stained the handle and painted the barrel black when I got home. The next day I assembled the parts, attached the back, and gave it a couple of coats of poly.
The night I wore this slide, my son was worried we would get pulled over by a police officer at gun point because it looked so real.
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