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Wow! Pretty sure I will never achieve such ability.

 

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Question from a novice:

Humor me, as this may sound wierd. A gun show visits Tulsa this weekend. If I am able to pick up a few large caliber brass casings without primers, might these work as ferrules? Perhaps you have seen those "swagger sticks" with a .50 cal. brass casing as the handle and usually a .30 cal. or 7.62 mm lead round on the other end of the stick?

I have even looked for a 40 mm casing from those old M-79 grenade launchers, my favorite weapon and target marker. Now that would make me happy at the top of a walking stick.

So, these are pretty rough-hewn sticks, I have no lathe. I'd have to be able to sand a precisely circular area of the correct diameter at the end of the stick in order to slip a casing over the epoxy coated stick. Perhaps a hole cutter for your door knob, but the diameter surely wouldn't be right as 40 mm = 1.57 inches and a .30 cal is much smaller. Can you think of a tool for me to prepare a stick end for a brass shell casing?

Thanks!

 

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Thanks Shawn. You're 100 times the woodworker I am, so I will go with the rasps, files, and sandpaper, persuant to the KISS principle.

Gun show this weekend. If I can find a parking place, I will be looking for brass.