Doc Mark
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
Even in a moment of panic, I luckily remembered something that I had read on this Forum years ago. I inadvertently cut an incorrect line on a shotgun I was working on. I cut a good, deep, 1/2 inch long line into the sideplate, when it hit me that I was really off the reservation! It was due to a change of design that I forgot about while doing the initial backbones. I was really pi**ed off at my stupidity and wondering how I was going to change the design AGAIN to accommodate the error. Then I remembered someone, (maybe my old buddy John B.), posting about inlaying soft steel into an engraved line to "erase it". Whoever wrote about it, said that he used the soft metal wire used in "twist-ties". So I found a heavy duty twist tie, stripped and annealed it and WOW, it worked perfectly. After some careful stoning and polishing, you can't find the old line at all.
If you haven't heard of this trick before, tuck it into you memory bank for future reference. It could lower you blood pressure someday.
If you haven't heard of this trick before, tuck it into you memory bank for future reference. It could lower you blood pressure someday.