The Project Workbench

At this point, the only real remaining task left on building up the rifle is the nozzle. Here's the piece as it came out of the mold. Yo...

The Managalore Rifle rushes towards completion... though at a snails pace. Hey, as long as it gets done eventually, I'll be happy. I dec...

Please don't misinterpret the title of this post. This blog has not taken a turn for the pornographic. Nossir! I'm talking in this p...

As before, I've fallen behind in posting progress on my Mangalore Rifle. Progress has indeed been made, it just has not been documented....

No, not the KISS album, silly. I'm talking about the Mangalore Rifle. Duh. Here's the rifle with all of that nasty blue tape removed...

My progress tonight puts me back into one of those rare "light at the end of the tunnel" kind of moods. With the copper assembly o...

Just after I painted the top copper piece with primer, I went to move it and the curly bit snapped off. Turns out my copper soldering job wa...

These photos and this information are actually about a week old. I did this work before I left for Seattle, which was late last week. But I ...

Late on Sunday, I wrapped up the last of the butane torch work. And I managed to do it all without burning the garage down. That's cool....

This post focuses on the copper tubing assembly that gets attached to the stock end of the rifle. I managed to get that all finished up this...

I only found about an hour and a half to work on projects today, but still got some solid work done. I'm focused on three items at the m...

Early this morning, I finished up the final little piece of masking work on the Mangalore Rifle. Yahoo! It's now ready for painting. So ...

It's really hard to stay motivated to finish up that Mangalore Rifle. As much as I love the prop, and want a finished one in my collecti...