Hi Harry and the fellas,

Well, I just got home in the very early hours of Saturday morning from a very tiring business trip and it feels good to be home. I relaxed today by doing some work on Harry's trigger unit. Hey wait a sec...today IS already tomorrow...but it's still today...agggggggg....gotta start getting to bed before midnight! Laugh

Before I left on the trip, I had mirror polished it inside and out as you can see below...BTW...thanks guys for the compliments from the last posting....I appreciate it!!






So, while I am waiting on slow-assed vendors to get me the rest of the supplies that I ordered to complete the tune on the gun, I thought that I would relax with a few D-R-Y Grey Goose Martini's and do some little extras on the trigger body; here is what I came up with.

The largest jewel swirls are 1/4" and the smallest are 1/16th".......

The flat parts I jeweled in 1/4" swirls with a 50% side-overlap with a 40-45% upward-overlap starting at the bottom of the flat part and working up to where the flat transitions to the round part of the housing.

On the round part of the housing, I did a combo of 1/8" and 1/4" swirls in a "snake skin" or "dragon skin" overlap pattern - They start large, then get small, and then get big again at the top - all of which are which are offset starting with a half swirl on one row and then starting with a full swirl on the row above it- just like the scales on a snake's skin....it is like building a brick or block wall and starting with a half block on one corse and then a full block on the course above it...your seams don't break on another seam.....all hell....it's just like snake skin....laugh

I did the thin bottom edges of everyting in 1/16th" swirls as you can see in the top picture....

The inside bottoms of the spring cups are 1/16" swirls and both of the ends are done, as are the inner edges and bottom of the recessed front end where the rear spring guide seats in is jeweled.

There is some "micro-jeweling" even on the rimmed edge where the screw goes into the trigger housing to hold the rear of the action to the stock....those are 1/16" swirls...I think the camera flash killed that view too...pout!

The pictures kinda suck...the flash of the camera kinda ruins the effect and makes the swirls look smired or like they ran together, but IF you could only see it in sitting in your hand in the sun....God (giggles) it is so cool! Too bad that part of the gun doesn't show when it is all put together!




Here is a cool tip for impossible to get to areas like where the screw that holds the rear of the action goes into the trigger body...don't try to make your swirls with the END of your tool on thie impossible areas...insted, use a 1/16th" drill bit or dowel and use the SIDE of it so that your swirls are not round - they will be cylindrical, but still overlapped....it looks SO cool!!!!! An impossible area on this trigger is where the flat boxed part of the body is RIGHT behind the hole where the screw goes...you can NEVER hit that angle with a conventional tool straight on...so do what ya can as round swirls and finish the impossible parts with cylindrical markings coming in from a downward angle and then press the side of the tool into the piece...believe it or not they DO blend in together!!!!!!!!!!

I swore that I would never do a FULL JEWEL on a T05 trigger body again, just the flat part where the trigger blade attaches as the T05 body is not milled from a solid billet...it is cast metal and the casting is NOT remotely close to perfectly even, so ya can't use a rotating jig like you do when jeweling the bolt on a bolt action center fire rifle...can't use a jig ya say eh???...NOPE...I didn't use a jig or a mill vice...I did it the good ol fashon way...by frick'en HAND...I did the layout in my head and thought about it through 3 smokes and 2 Martinis and then just did it...I used some dense foam for a soft rest cushion so as not to scratch the fresh jeweling as I held it and rotated it under the drill press.

The only reason that I did this one is cause I had already ground-sanded-filed and then mirror polished it so it was a bit closer to even...it just can't be anything but a labor of love for a Beautiful Diana.

Jeweling a Rekord trigger on a Beeman or Weihrauch is a cake-walk breeze....the T05 is tougher than writing a Post Grad Physics Thesis!!!!! Laugh

Ok...I'm going to bed....Aggggg 2:31AM....I did it again.............OK - night all!

Poof Gone

-Curtis

Women...Agggggggggggg...why couldn't she have done this an hour ago...sigh

She read my post and got me out of bed to come and make this correction/addition....

OK.....soooooooooo

When I was talking about the cool TIP for the hard to get to areas and I said to use a 1/16" drill bit or a dowel, I SHOULD have been sure to say to use the DULL end of the drill bit, DON'T use the fluted part of the drill bit...it will damage the surface of your piece...F'en DUH!!!!!!

If you have a mill or lathe, just cut the flutes off the drill bit and leave the smooth part of the shaft...that is the part that you want...

Don't have a mill or lathe? Use your drill press that you use for the jeweling...

To cut off the "cutting flutes" of the bit with a drill press, drill a hole in a piece of wood like a 2x4 or something at a LOW speed like 600-1000 RPMs, until the bit's "cutting flutes" disappear into the wood and nothing but the smooth shank/shaft of the bit is exposed.

NOW you can hold a hacksaw blade to the side of the spinning bit...when you have cut all of the way through the bit, the part that is in the wood will be held there and not fly up and stick in your forehead or eyeball....laugh...and the chuck will hold the other end in place...throw away the hunk of wood with the fluted section in it as it could be dangerous to cut through later at the worst...at the best in could dull your saw blade...if you don’t like the thought of wasting part of a dead tree, burn it when you are cold or beat your kids with it…laugh. If it were me, I’d throw it and when Stephanie chased after it, I’d go back to bed! ROTFLMAO

Now loosen the chuck and take what is left of the bit OUT and turn it upside down...chuck it back up good and tight and lower the end of it down onto some sandpaper that is on a flat solid surface like a whetstone that you use for sharpening knives...grind the end flat with the sandpaper and then polish it on the stone with a drop of oil on it....just lower it till it gently touches the surface of the stone and then move the stone back and forth as you don't want to hold it in one place and score your stone or your knife sharpening will be OVER with that stone...remember....you don't want dished or cupped edges on the end of the shaft of the bit...you don't want an odd angle either....it has to be flat & square at a 90% angle in relation to the shaft of the bit or it won't make the jeweling swirls right and could ruin your piece....

Sorry boys, but I am not going to spell check this.....too late and I'm too tired.
Ok...back to bed....

Wow Curtis! Looks like the bolt action on some of my firearms Nice jeweling job! That was unexpected! Sounds like it's tough to do on the T05 compared to others.

Can you cut a little hole in the 350 action and install a clear glass or plastic window so I can show people what my beautiful trigger assembly looks like? Just kidding! I 'll just have to carry pictures with me to show people "the inside of the gun" Seems to be a lot more interesting inside than the outside.

Curtis, I am running out of words to use for the amazing job you are doing on my gun! I 'm an engineer, I wasn't an English major in school

Gotta get back to work. I 'll call you later after work to talk you out of working on my gun till 3am every time. Sleeping and s*x is more relaxing than working on any gun, no? Maybe I got it wrong? We 'll talk priorities ok?
thanks buddy! Keep up the unbelievably astonishing work!!

For part #3-4-5 and so on. Come on man the suspence is killing me. That trigger is sweet, and looking forward to see the rest.

Wow now that is very impressive work! You have the masters touch,this is not your first day on the job is it??? LOL

BBGun Bob

Springers are Neat! One Shot One Bullseye!