fspitzdorf
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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 rifle with Dickert & Albrecht influences as well as much of my own artistic license. Uses a 38" Rice transitional contour barrel in C weight, 54 caliber, 1:66 round bottom rifling.
Stock is a not-overly fancy piece of very hard sugar maple. All of the hardware is from the Chambers Isaac Haines gun (more or less generic Lancaster) and the lock is a Chambers Golden Age Germanic. Thumbles are sheet brass and the patch box is my own held shut by a post on the lid that engages a spring lever. You activate it with your thumb nail where it protrudes through the butt plate. It has no knob (at least not yet). The trigger is a simple pinned piece.
Finish is aquafortis and the top coat is Tried and True Varnish Oil.
This is a Lancaster pattern rifle with Dickert & Albrecht influences as well as much of my own artistic license. Uses a 38" Rice transitional contour barrel in C weight, 54 caliber, 1:66 round bottom rifling.
Stock is a not-overly fancy piece of very hard sugar maple. All of the hardware is from the Chambers Isaac Haines gun (more or less generic Lancaster) and the lock is a Chambers Golden Age Germanic. Thumbles are sheet brass and the patch box is my own held shut by a post on the lid that engages a spring lever. You activate it with your thumb nail where it protrudes through the butt plate. It has no knob (at least not yet). The trigger is a simple pinned piece.
Finish is aquafortis and the top coat is Tried and True Varnish Oil.