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Jack beat me to it...

Laurel Mountain Forge cold browning solution gives a much more realistic and durable finish than BC Plum Brown. You can also boil the components and turn it into a rust blue. It isn't as quick as plum brown but the results are better IMO as well as the color

BCRider, Yes I did the shaping and all incise and relief carving. All with hand tools.

Andreas Albrecht was the first Master of the Christian Spring gunshop. He immigrated in 1750 and was a teacher prior to opening the gun shop @ CS in 1762. He left in 1766 to become the keeper at the Sun Inn and in 1771 he moved to Lititz (near Lancaster) where he took up gun building again...

Lest you think me ill in the head... Please know that I "cleaned" just prior to the photos. 10 minutes before there was a mountain of tools, rags, spent sandpaper,etc where that gun is sitting. Surprisingly though, my shop (and my gun building area) are very clean until I decide to do...

Hot off of my bench. Began this gun in January 2011 and finished it in late September. I've been adding finish coats every couple of days and I have 2 to go. Needs some final regulation to dial it in but otherwise she is ready for the 2011 hunting season. This is a Lancaster pattern...

I could have whipped out that "hand cannon" surpassing them in quality 10 fold in about an afternoon... A friggin JOKE.

1998 Vintage 700 Mountain Rifle. 22" Shilen sporting contour tube chambered for 280 Remington. Glass bedded and otherwise bone stock except for a little trigger clean-up. Leupold bases and medium rings wearing a Leupold Vari-X III 4.5-14 x 40 AO 700 Custom - Self built. Began life as one...

Heaven forbid an error in spelling.

Jacob and Samuel Hawken were part of a line of American Gunsmiths dating to the mid 18th Century. Their father, grandfather, great - grandfather and uncles and cousins had been well known Gunsmiths in Pennsylvania for the better part of a century (the family arrived in America in 1750) before...

A dab will do ya....

Most of the inletting done on the pre-carves from Sitting Fox, TOTW, Chambers, so on and so forth, is just a starting point. You will have to open them up manually to size them to the components. They just remove a bunch of wood so you don't have to tediously do it.

Pecatonica, TOTW, Chambers, so on and so forth, inletting does not mean you just stick parts in a hole... Most of the wood is removed but you must still enlarge all inlets and draft all components to make the components fit. You will also have to deepen lock mortice inlet to seat the lock...

The gun builders section of the american longrifles forum is also an endless resource. The most important operation to know with woodworking tools is how to sharpen them... Sharper than the razor you shave with. If you can beg, borrow or steal Rifles of Colonial America Vols I & II they...

These guns from Pecatonica (and elsewhere) are not "kits" but are more a collection of components that require a lot of finishing and fitting. You need metal working as well as wood working skills and tools. The first thing I would suggest is finding a couple of references to read and or...

It's the challenge, nostalgia and skill required to bring home the bacon... Not to mention the fact that Longrifles of the 18th and early 19th century were as much art forms then as they are now and there are groups of individuals who go to lengths to recreate and study the original work as an...

Take a look at some of the offerings through Sitting Fox Muzzloaders... There are a few styles to chose from.. http://www.sittingfoxmuzzleloaders.com/intro.html

At the moment? The one I finished earlier this Fall and currently shoot... May be replaced once my next build is complete...

Levin didn't bother to reply to my letter and Stabenow sent a reply in the form of a boiler plate blah blah waste a lot of ink, say nothing letter... I shouldn't be surprised... I reckon Carl Levin was as giddy as a school boy about to get to 2nd base with the nomination of Holder...

State firearms laws and pre-emption do not apply to Universities in the state such as U of M, MSU and Wayne State.. They are governing bodies unto themselves and AFAIK, all firearms, concealed or not are off limits from the moment you step foot on university grounds... Open Carry has been and...