Thought about CU4 when I saw this,...

[Plane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMmau4lSDuY

http://www.turnbullmfg.com/resources/about-turnbull-mfg-co/watch-turnbull-restoration-manufacturing-co-on-science-channels-how-its-made/

[Christians4LessGvt]

Thanks Plane.....i think

[Xavier_Onassis]

I find restoration to be interesting. It does seem rather silly to collect recently made, old style rifles, but it is essentially harmless.

[Plane]

  They are real weapons , but only a few can afford to be this kind of fussy.

I like old rifles , but what I would pay a gunsmith to do would be to true it up or correct for wear or fix corrosion.

If I owned one of these showpieces I could not use it in the woods, it might get dirty.

What I own , mostly "beaters".

Which is where the fun is , as far as I can tell you.

When you come in from the field you are tired and grimy, and happy. A day spent hunting is a day spent very well indeed.

[Xavier_Onassis]

My Mercedes club has events where people show off their cars. There are a lot of very well preserved old Benzes in Miami.  Mine is now 30 years old, so officially a "historic vehicle".  I used to wonder how some of the guys who drove their cars to our shows kept their cars in showroom condition. The secret is that they polish them every weekend, garage them every day and never drive them, except to car shows.

It takes a LOT of polishing to get an aluminum valve cover to gleam like a new pressure cooker. The factory never tried for such decorum. But there is one guy that removes the valve cover every year and spends several hours buffing it with a special buffer he designed.

He told me all about it while he applied Armorall to the treads of his tires.

[Plane]

My Mercedes club ........................applied Armorall to the treads of his tires.

Yes , that is very like the same , only rifles over a century old are not as scarce as cars that old are.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Rifles do not require garages and are small enough to collect more easily.

My sister and I went to a garage sale and she made an offer on a large ashtray. The woman wanted $25 for it, so my sister did not buy it. The woman said it was a "rare collectable antique" ashtray. It was American made, probably in the 1960's.

That is the first I have heard of ashtray collecting. There are those who collect spittoons, which has to be less pleasant, since it involves frequent polishing of brass, but spittoons are less easily broken than ceramic ashtrays.