Jack these are barrels off of a couple of English doubles and the one on next to me
is what got what they call striping which is just a little bit of polishing and some
vertical hash marks on it just to kind of dress it up a little bit.
I know that's a pretty simple process and doesn't really add any value to it, but sometimes
it dresses them up just a little bit why don't you show us how to do that.
Yes certainly.
Actually Larry it's just presentation, it looks good.
I know maybe if you strip them clean the gun and and you do this in your gear by the customer
he looks at me he can realize you've done something to the gun.
You just take the extractors out and then all this is is polishing it two ways to get
the lines.
I'll get a little bit of well worn emery cloth or abrasive paper or whatever and just go
across the face of the barrels.
I'm not taking anything up becuase this is just 400 grit emery cloth and it's pretty
much worn out so all you're trying to do is just polish it a little bit better, polish
it east and wests.
Now don't try and get marks out because like in this one for instance there's some pitting
marks and I mean to get those out of here you'll be taking a lot of metal up off the
face and you're gonna be off the face so just polish them one way like that, east and west.
You can see that the lines are going that way, bring in the vice carefully like this
just to hold it and then get your emery cloth or whatever and wrap it around a steal rule.
You've got a real fine rule there yeah it's a rather thin rule it's about oh about a 30
second thick or so.
Wrap it around there like so and hold tight and then starting from the about the middle,
right in the middle the rib.
Yeah you could you can do all kinds of patterns.
You can space these lines whichever way you want so put one in the middle what looks like
the middle like that, you can see that line there.
Now then, I'd say an 1/8 of an inch or I'll put another one in there and then another
one and you can finally finish off with one near the edge.
You can space of any distance you want, from closer or further away everybody's got a different
way of doing it.
Put one in the correct place, so forth and then one back on the edge like on the other
side.
Okay there now you have the striping.
Now then you see these shows up that's how it's done there's a stroke in the polishing
it one and just putting these lines across the other way.
Now what do you do about the injectors?
The extractors, well those you can just finish those off by just you don't need to carry
they stripe it over the extractors.
Most people will just leave them plain and just finish those off with polish.
Do you polish those east and west or north and south?
North and South, okay up and down on the extractor.
Polish those north and south on top of the extractor.
There's all sorts of patterns people use.
Then you put the extractors back in.
You put the extractors back in and then your finished.
Now let's take a look at them here and there you have it and we've got the original one
near me and the one you just did on your side.
That's a pretty simple way of dressing up a breach the end of a shotgun.