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Unread 05-18-2024, 07:55 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack View Post
Very nice! I'm curious how you effected the "Purdey roll" (the fine line scribed into the leather covering around the juncture of the pad with the stock). Rich Cole had a great video on YouTube of his rig (a soldering iron fixed in a jig on his vise sears the line in as he rotates the pad the radius of the stock). I use(d) a more primitive method of a creasing iron heated over a candle rest and used a straightedge to scribe the line freehand - hairy but effective and nicely finished!
I made a fixture that uses a small washer as a roller to go around it. I think heat would leave a more distinct line.
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