Quackenbush Air Guns
STATUS PAGE
The List is still Closed
The January list filled in 3 hours. There was no time limit on how long the list
was to be open, it was open until I took 50 names. I regret that not everyone that wanted a rifle
was able to get on the list. By having a smaller lot size, I'll be able to
open the list more often.
An unavoidable 3 week interruption to my work schedule has made it so I won't complete all rifle deliveries in September. The last of them should be delivered in October. So I can't open a new list until sometime in October.
The next time I open the list it will be on
a Saturday, so people who can't get to the phone during the week will be able to
call.
How the list works:
I take a person’s name and telephone number and call them when the gun
style that they ordered is ready. I
don’t take deposits or any money up front.
When a gun is finished I call the customer and we make the deal.
Upon receiving your check, I send you the ownership oath.
That lets you know that I received your check.
There are no numbers for
the list. There’s no numerical
sequence because not all styles of rifles are available in the sequence of the
people on the list. For
example, if the next 3 rifles I have made are standard grade, but the next 3
people on the list want a grade other than a standard, I will call those people
wanting a standard grade.
These are
the laws by which I must abide. No
exceptions to the law.
It is the buyer’s responsibility to know your local, state & federal laws,
concerning big bore airguns, before you order.
Failure to do so could result in your breaking the law.
You must be over 18 years old to purchase a big bore airgun.
I cannot
ship airguns to the following locations:
Morton Grove IL, Chicago IL, Johnson City TN, San Francisco CA, Philadelphia PA,
Washington DC, Buffalo NY, New York City and its boroughs (Brooklyn, Bronx,
Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island).
Illinois
residents need a valid FOID card to purchase an airgun.
Michigan residents need a permit and must supply me with the address of
licensed gun shop to
ship a gun to.
New Jersey residents need a permit and must supply me with the address of a
licensed gun shop to
ship a gun to.
©2008 Dennis Quackenbush
Pictured on the left are rifles that were shipped
recently. While in the rack, the stocks are protected by plastic
tubing. The yellow flag at the muzzle is the customer's name.
On the right are rifle actions awaiting stocks.
I have been offered more money, than the regular price, to sell a gun to a person that's not on the list waiting for one. I turn them down. Nobody has been passed over and nobody has had a gun sold out from underneath them. And I have never offered somebody a substitute for what they ordered, such as a "personal gun". If you have time to build a personal gun, you have time to build a customer's gun.
click on photo to enlarge
The difficulty for small quantity steel users: Although I spend over $1500. a
year purchasing steel, that's nothing to the order takers in the front
office. At this level I still have no sway over the steel that I
purchase. After waiting 5 times being told that it would be there next
week, 5 weeks worth of waiting got me steel I could not use.
Pictured (from top to bottom) is sheared flat stock, finished edge bar stock and
the barrel stay that is made from that stock. Now I wanted regular rolled
bar stock because its rolled surfaces become the working surface of the
part. So when the steel company didn't have the bar stock, they took a
plate and sheared it into 1" strips. "Sheared" in sheet
steel (.014 to .046) actually shears, just as if you cutting paper. But to
say that you're shearing plate (3/16" thick and up) is really a misnomer
because what you're really doing is breaking a piece of steel off. When
the shear blade strikes the plate there is slight compression, then cutting
begins, but rapidly the tensile strength of the steel is surpassed and the steel
fractures, breaking off. The top of the picture is the fractured edge of
the steel. On one side of the strip the fracture is undercut, and on the
opposite side the fracture throws a burr, so you have a trapezoid shape.
When this strip is measured, it measures 1", but when you machine the
edges, to smooth it out, it's undersize by .048. So this steel can't be
used to make the part as pictured.
So the way around it is to take a day off and drive to the steel
warehouse. The reason for this is when I can talk to the guys on the shop
floor I can get things worked out right. A box of doughnuts and some gun
magazines, as a gratuity, makes you one of their buddies. They'll take 3
minutes more to find some rolled edge steel in the stack. I pay the same
money for the steel, but the personal contact makes sure that I leave with what
I actually wanted.
