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Offline Swampman

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Made Some Rammers
« on: February 15, 2009, 02:24:49 PM »
I made up 2 ramrods today from oak dowels that I got at Home Depot for a little over a dollar each.  If they hold up, I'll report back. I checked the grain runout carefully. You can make a traditional bow out of oak, so they should be strong enough. We'll see.  I epoxyed & pinned the tips on.  They came from the junk box & off old fiberglass ramrods(which I hate).  Some of them were 8-32 so..........

I decided to tap them up to 10-32.  I went to Sears, and the tap & bit came in the same package.  I actually prefer 8-32 tips, but I no longer have very many 8/32 ramrod accessories. I just enlarged them to 10-32.

I stained them with Fiebing's Dark Brown shoe dye & slathered them real good with Purified Linseed Oil.

They look really nice and I saved my stock of hand split hickory rods for longer barreled guns.

This one is on my Renegade.  Notice the brass pipes I just put on it.



Here's the one I put on my Hawken.  I made the gun hangers too.

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Re: Made Some Rammers
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2009, 05:43:48 PM »
I did the same when the ramrod for my Lyman GPR broke.  Bought a dowel at the hardware store and installed the tips off the old one, and "stained" it with shoe polish.  It has held up for several years now...

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Re: Made Some Rammers
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2009, 04:00:00 AM »
Nice job Swampman...I think that I will do the same on the if/when. Had previously just bought the replacement rod which was not too unreasonable.
I think that the original T/C rods like my 1981 vintage were made from Cedar. Is this stock avalible at the home depot's & such?
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Re: Made Some Rammers
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2009, 05:16:02 AM »
Hickory is the most commonly used wood for rammers.  Birch and oak dowels, are the most commonly found in hardware stores.
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Re: Made Some Rammers
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2009, 05:22:30 AM »
I don't know too much about Rammers, but it looks like you did nice work on those.
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Re: Made Some Rammers
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2009, 01:58:40 PM »
Any of you ever stripe your rods? I've made a number of them from oak dowels and they look really nice with a spiral stripe pattern done with a butane torch.
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Re: Made Some Rammers
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2009, 02:19:49 PM »
Do you use tape, or free hand the stripes?
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Re: Made Some Rammers
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2009, 05:01:53 AM »
Quote from: Swampman on February 17, 2009, 02:19:49 PM
Do you use tape, or free hand the stripes?

I've always done it freehand. Couldn't find "fireproof" tape. Besides, I think it would too perfect if done with some kind of tape. (just my preference to look kinda 'natural'. if one likes 'perfect', and could figger out a way of din' it, there ain't nuthin wrong with that!)
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Re: Made Some Rammers
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2009, 12:40:25 PM »
I tiger striped an old mauser stock with a torch.
It actually looked kind of cool. It had already been bubba'd
so I had nothing to loose by doing it. I tried a ramrod but it didn't
look quite right.
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