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Posted: 3/23/2012 12:53:36 PM EDT

need ideas.. I have a over sized 30 cal blank I can octagon (300WTF).. some one was running brass lowers for high power a few years ago.. Just need an Upper, in brass..

Got a stock duplicator for the wood..

I think its possible..

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:54:52 PM EDT

[#1]

As a fan of the steam punk genre, I would be impressed and would love to see the finished piece.

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:55:30 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
need ideas.. I have a over sized 30 cal blank I can octagon (300WTF).. some one was running brass lowers for high power a few years ago.. Just need an Upper, in brass..

Got a stock duplicator for the wood..

I think its possible..

I've been thinking hard about this because of that other thread... what are you going to do for the gas block? Barrel nut? Front sight? I have some ideas that I think would look really cool, have no idea if they'd work.

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:56:32 PM EDT

[#3]

OK, I'm in.

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:57:27 PM EDT

[#4]

Would it make your life easier to use one of the wood stocks already on the market from Ironwood or other similar companies?

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:57:41 PM EDT

[#5]

Steam punk is sweeping the nation
It's not only for women.

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:58:16 PM EDT

[#6]

here are some ideas to get you started

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:58:31 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
need ideas.. I have a over sized 30 cal blank I can octagon (300WTF).. some one was running brass lowers for high power a few years ago.. Just need an Upper, in brass..

Got a stock duplicator for the wood..

I think its possible..

I've been thinking hard about this because of that other thread... what are you going to do for the gas block? Barrel nut? Front sight? I have some ideas that I think would look really cool, have no idea if they'd work.

proly a split block and round the barrel in theses location.

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:59:05 PM EDT

[#8]

where is the burnt copper cerakote ar15? that might be a good color

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:59:54 PM EDT

[#9]

http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=3&f=118&t=546677

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:03:29 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
where is the burnt copper cerakote ar15? that might be a good color

NIC is down the street from me, and they can custom mix.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:04:24 PM EDT

[#11]

It'll need an analog chamber pressure gauge.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:06:17 PM EDT

[#12]

Get a water jacket for the barrel!

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:07:43 PM EDT

[#13]

TAGGED

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:10:24 PM EDT

[#14]

Tagged...
I do steampunk art.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:10:35 PM EDT

[#15]

use copper plumbing for custom buffer tube

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:11:50 PM EDT

[#16]

i have always wanted a case hardened ar with wood furniture. this sounds like a cool build also.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:13:10 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
use copper plumbing for custom buffer tube

no better yet copper free float tube..

really need 2 hunks of brass ran for the lowers and uppers.. God I wish I had CNC..

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:13:37 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
here are some ideas to get you started

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8yDm-RRgfGA/S5VF7I_9oEI/AAAAAAAAEfg/qGnWBxZ3iD8/s400/Steampunk-Guns-16.jpg

http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/283/b/a/steampunk_nerf_shotgun_by_bcjfla76-d30io35.jpg

http://craphound.com/images/FXX8GBIFJD3GWZG.MEDIUM.jpg

I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but the first one is pure heresy. Gaying up a Han Solo-esque blaster trying to make it look all lamepunked out?

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:15:12 PM EDT

[#19]

a long top rail would allow some sort of gearing mechanism for an extendible optic––think of an old spyglass as a scope.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:16:25 PM EDT

[#20]

From "tailo", a member of this forum

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:17:37 PM EDT

[#21]

In, curious to see how this plays out.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:17:44 PM EDT

[#22]

this is going to be a project thats going to take a while.. Im slammed that the shop right now and free time is at a min..

but hey I have all the stuff to make guns look old. Hot blue, fake case harding, chemicals for strawing parts.. Well Ill start collecting parts and getting stuff going.. Shit I still need to finish he swage dies still.

Man I hate working 2 jobs..

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:22:41 PM EDT

[#23]

Would need some rube goldbergian touches to the gas system, even if cosmetic... over-sized tube, pressure valves, gauges... plumbed in rape whistle...

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:30:18 PM EDT

[#24]

Leather grips.

Brass sights.

Maybe an A2 sized buttstock, ornately curved and shaped like a Scheutzen rifle.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:31:13 PM EDT

[#25]

rig up a malcolm scope

http://www.buffaloarms.com/malcom_style_scopes_pr-4100.aspx

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:31:36 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Brass sights.

some sort of sextant-looking thing would be awesome.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:37:24 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Would need some rube goldbergian touches to the gas system, even if cosmetic... over-sized tube, pressure valves, gauges... plumbed in rape whistle...

My biggest problem with steampunk art is that so much of it is about tacking useless, nonfunctional things everywhere. A working pressure gauge attached to the gas tube would be amazing.

There's so many things that could work if you have the time to do it. A brass spyglass for a scope, big brass castle nut, octagonal brass trigger guard, wood forearm with copper bands.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:42:09 PM EDT

[#28]

Needs tang sights.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:43:40 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Leather grips.

Brass sights.

Maybe an A2 sized buttstock, ornately curved and shaped like a Scheutzen rifle.

I'm thinking a old hawkins brass butt plate/patchbox. Copper free float tube with a double gun splinter fore stock.. Highly vented free float. and use one of the spiral gas tubes.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:51:28 PM EDT

[#30]

in

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:53:47 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
rig up a malcolm scope

http://www.buffaloarms.com/malcom_style_scopes_pr-4100.aspx

just what I was looking for..

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:57:07 PM EDT

[#32]

A sight like that would be boss.

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:58:28 PM EDT

[#33]

Taggage!

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:02:24 PM EDT

[#34]

in again

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:06:16 PM EDT

[#35]

I was thinking about this same thing after ogling over the Steampunk thread. I would love to see how this turns out!

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:08:18 PM EDT

[#36]

I'm following this one

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:10:49 PM EDT

[#37]

Please do it!

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:11:57 PM EDT

[#38]

Dunno if it would actually be man-portable...

But a m1917 browning fitted up like a m1919-a6, with a backpack water system and ammo containment, would be sweet looking.

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:12:01 PM EDT

[#39]

Tag gage.

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:16:52 PM EDT

[#40]

I've made Mesquite furniture for ARs.

Well, one stock. Several handguards, tho. Several pistol grips.

Doing handguards on a lathe takes some practice to get it right without having to resort to composites later.

I might try my hand at the stocks again sometime. The one I made was before I was into CNC. So I ended up having to split it to cut the buffer tube hole on a chintzy table router. Wasn't paying attention one afternoon and diddled my finger in the router bit. Accidentally fed the piece into the bit the wrong direction.

Skip the pantograph duplicator. Go CNC.

With a 3 axis, you could do alot of the stuff in 2 pieces with 2 setups apiece. On the joining face, you'd have pins on the left side piece and holes on the right side piece. This would also let you flip the work piece around and retain the zero from the first setup.

Just my 2 cents.

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:31:29 PM EDT

[#41]

May god have mercy on you if you do not:

A:Show pics of a big breasted steampunk girl stroking the finished rifle

And B: have tiny nonfunctioning gear sprockets bedazzled all over the gun and said woman.

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:32:46 PM EDT

[#42]

Instead of having a gas tube, have a gas piston that actuates a really long string of really tiny cogs.

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:45:02 PM EDT

[#43]

I am thinking full length wood forend with a brass sight guard similar to a SMLE.

ETA:

Carbine length. with a brass fake suppressor.

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:46:01 PM EDT

[#44]

the leaver and butt place - not to mention the maple. Hell, even the sight would not be half bad - likewise the front rest (not it picture) would probably be good to add as well. Hell even the gold/brass inlays are cool.

Damn Schuetzen highwalls are sexy.