building a black powder rifle from scratch
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tkendrick
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go over to muzzleloadingforum.com. A lot of builders hang out over there, and there is a full blown step by step on the gun builders forum.
A word of warning. I had a perfectly good T/C Hawken, then I built a french Tulle from scratch. Then I decided I needed a long rifle, then a full stock Hawken, then another Fowler.......
It's kinda like eating potato chips, once you start, you cant stop.
A word of warning. I had a perfectly good T/C Hawken, then I built a french Tulle from scratch. Then I decided I needed a long rifle, then a full stock Hawken, then another Fowler.......
It's kinda like eating potato chips, once you start, you cant stop.
Pancho
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kds99, Will there be Rendevous near you this Spring. If you do and it is as big as Friendship there will be a lot of venders selling anything from stock blanks to complete inletted stocks and everything in between. The meet will also have all the hardware needed to complete you gun.
William Buchelle (okay my spelling is wrong) wrote a book on building a Kentucky.
So did a couple of others but my recall feature is not working.
Perhaps, "Recreating the Kentucky Longrifle"?
Some of the others here will be able to fill in the titles and authors.
Good luck, it is a wonderful hobby. Expensive, time consuming, frustrating, nail biting, hair pulling, but in the end a wonderful, hobby.
Been doing it since the 70s.
So did a couple of others but my recall feature is not working.
Perhaps, "Recreating the Kentucky Longrifle"?
Some of the others here will be able to fill in the titles and authors.
Good luck, it is a wonderful hobby. Expensive, time consuming, frustrating, nail biting, hair pulling, but in the end a wonderful, hobby.
Been doing it since the 70s.
alemonkey
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I REALLY want to try building a long rifle kit from Track of the Wolf. I've never built one before, but I'm pretty handy. Their kits look really nice, and most of the stocks come fully inletted. Don't know if that would be a good place for a first timer to start, but I'm thinking of trying some time.
Macmac
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Amost no one ever builds from scratch, not now, and not then.
What you are doing as a wood worker is becoming a stock maker, and will buy a lock, barrel and furniture. These other 3 items were also specialized back then. Lock, stock and barrel, leaving the furniture left out.
Today there are still stock makers, lock makers, barrel makers, and furniture makers.
Some builders do more than one of these, but it is rare for a builder to do all of these. I have dabbled in all of these and build one gun from almost scratch, but I bought lock parts and some furniture. I altered these to be what i was after, circa 1740/1745 all ideas I got looking in musems and books.
What I got is a English Naval officers pistol, just after the Queen Anne style.
A walnut stock (my own), with a brass barrel (my own from solid brass), lock plate, (my own) steel lock parts by Siler, The brass furiture as a dragon side plate, and ferruls (my own) Trigger guard from Dixie, and a brass long ear pommel from Dixie.
This pistol took all my spare time over 90 days. So far this is as far as I have come to "scratch".
What you are doing as a wood worker is becoming a stock maker, and will buy a lock, barrel and furniture. These other 3 items were also specialized back then. Lock, stock and barrel, leaving the furniture left out.
Today there are still stock makers, lock makers, barrel makers, and furniture makers.
Some builders do more than one of these, but it is rare for a builder to do all of these. I have dabbled in all of these and build one gun from almost scratch, but I bought lock parts and some furniture. I altered these to be what i was after, circa 1740/1745 all ideas I got looking in musems and books.
What I got is a English Naval officers pistol, just after the Queen Anne style.
A walnut stock (my own), with a brass barrel (my own from solid brass), lock plate, (my own) steel lock parts by Siler, The brass furiture as a dragon side plate, and ferruls (my own) Trigger guard from Dixie, and a brass long ear pommel from Dixie.
This pistol took all my spare time over 90 days. So far this is as far as I have come to "scratch".
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