I forgot to state earlier that I am sharing this shoe lump barrel building method as an education to all of you both amateur and professional. Anything that you want more explanation or details, just post about it, and I will respond. I do not have an ego to sooth or a trade secret to cover up. I remember Jack Rowe telling me that when he was a lad in Birmingham, England learning the gun trade, that many times when he walked into a gunmakers shop, that the gunmaker working at the bench would cover the work with a spare apron so that Jack could not see what he was doing or how he was doing it.