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  1. 22-01-2018, 12:36 PM #1
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    Quackenbush type target

    Assuming all is forgiven for the faux-arse-paddle-debacle? ...(I didn't realise there would be such a demand, and Guy has sort of apologised...so let's just forget it, eh? )

    Anyway, I'm sort of in the middle of making a Quackenbush type fairground target and have come up with this as an idea...

    http://imageupload.co.uk/image/EHSa

    What do you think? ...stand too gaudy?..or just right for mock farground look?...not sure where it will go but it's shaping up for a fun project. Have seen a youtube vid of a Quackenbush target that flips 90 degrees to show a skull on the back when shot through the centre?...
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    Very good like to see it when finished
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    Quote Originally Posted by DCL_dave View Post
    Assuming all is forgiven for the faux-arse-paddle-debacle? ...(I didn't realise there would be such a demand, and Guy has sort of apologised...so let's just forget it, eh? )

    Anyway, I'm sort of in the middle of making a Quackenbush type fairground target and have come up with this as an idea...

    http://imageupload.co.uk/image/EHSa

    What do you think? ...stand too gaudy?..or just right for mock farground look?...not sure where it will go but it's shaping up for a fun project. Have seen a youtube vid of a Quackenbush target that flips 90 degrees to show a skull on the back when shot through the centre?...
    Just the right level of Victorian-era gaudiness IMO, Dave.
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  5. 22-01-2018, 07:47 PM #5
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    One end of a garden bench ?
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    Thanks chaps

    Yes Danny, Victorian gaudy art nouveau was sort of what I was aiming for with it...

    Yes John, it is one of a pair of garden bench ends that I have been carting around from house to house for about 25 years in the hope that one day I'll find a use for them...
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    Quote Originally Posted by DCL_dave View Post
    Yes John, it is one of a pair of garden bench ends that I have been carting around from house to house for about 25 years in the hope that one day I'll find a use for them...
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    Just jigging things around but this is another potential design/style...(my foot is for scale )

    http://imageupload.co.uk/image/EHtd

    Not that it matters too much but I don't want to cut anything until I have a good, clear mental picture of the finished thing...
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    Quote Originally Posted by DCL_dave View Post
    Just jigging things around but this is another potential design/style...(my foot is for scale )

    http://imageupload.co.uk/image/EHtd

    Not that it matters too much but I don't want to cut anything until I have a good, clear mental picture of the finished thing...
    Hmm, not sure the bench end shape exactly favours that design...

    Here is an original old target from that era:



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    Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
    Hmm, not sure the bench end shape exactly favours that design...

    Here is an original old target from that era:



    The bench end shape is not critical to the design, it can be cut ...I know what you're thinking, it's the Gem lamp stand all over again!...but I seem to remember that was your baby?
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    http://imageupload.co.uk/image/EpTU (it is stamped as a REPLICA on the back)
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    Quote Originally Posted by sproat View Post
    Very good like to see it when finished
    what is going to happen when you shoot through the centre bull?
    ...sound/bell...?
    ...or something 'mechanically aminated'?
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  13. 31-01-2018, 05:00 PM #13
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    also: ...found this ref pic of the 'rear' of similar:
    https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item...nd-duck-target
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    Quote Originally Posted by chieffool View Post
    what is going to happen when you shoot through the centre bull?
    ...sound/bell...?
    ...or something 'mechanically aminated'?
    Both...there are a few versions of this target with slightly different mechanisms, but most seem to do pretty much the same thing - bell rings and a little metal duck shape pops out the top.

    Edit: although, this is one of the alternative designs I am considering -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvknNVo09R4

    ...hence the upside down cast iron bench end to act as a stand for the flipping target...
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    Quote Originally Posted by DCL_dave View Post
    Both...there are a few versions of this target with slightly different mechanisms, but most seem to do pretty much the same thing - bell rings and a little metal duck shape pops out the top.

    Edit: although, this is one of the alternative designs I am considering -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvknNVo09R4

    ...hence the upside down cast iron bench end to act as a stand for the flipping target...
    Nice....
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