I started the thread so I’ll go first…
Here’s a vintage long rifle rebuild I did. When I got it it was beat up and grimy, someone had etched their name into the barrel, you couldn’t even tell what kind of wood it was.
Defarbed the name from the barrel and reblued, reshaped the stock from blocky to thinner more elegant lines, redid all the inletting, sanded sanded sanded down to 1000 grit, and did 6 or 7 coats of TruOil.
Turned out to be beautiful birds eye and burl maple
The rifle is so long that it can be hard to hold steady for more than a little bit. Made the antler shooting stick to help with that. Breaks down into three pieces for storage and has a patch knife attached at the joint.
Most recent, made some accoutrements to go with my flintlocks, tools, antler pan primer, small horn pan primer, and a large powder horn. Just finished the powder horn in the bottom pic the other day. First try, could be better could be worse, photo looks better than it is.
Amazing before and after. Nice work!
She’s a beauty! Nice work Sudsy!
Very nice
No one else has made anything ?
I have this fear of blowing my hand off with one of these.
Same thing holds with Hi Point handguns.
It’s far more of a challenge to blow one of these up then it is to blow up a cartridge gun with a bad reload
That is very cool !!
I’d really like to see a thread on how you did it !
Bumping this thread up - Anyone doing anything interesting?
I’m about to begin work on a Chambers circa 1760 Smooth Rifle in 20 gauge
Working on this cheap kit gun I got from a friend in a package deal. Flash hole and nipple were clogged up but I was able to dental pick the way through. Front and rear sights were loose in the dovetail, a little peening with a spring loaded punch did the trick. Set triggers are not functional, after much tinkering it’s still only working off the front trigger, which has an acceptable break and weight alone. It’s a muzzleloading armory plainsman, which seems like the same exact rifle under the cva plainsman name. Hopefully I’ll get out to shoot some patched round balls this weekend and may bring it out with me this muzzleloader season.
Now I didn’t make it but I refinished this old Winchester signal cannon…. This little thing is really loud…
Had one of those at my high school. we used it to signal the start of sailboat races and during parades for the boom between retreat and the colors. Loud motherfukr,
Restoring Gun #2 at Washington Crossing. 4 Pndr English tube. We’ll have her ready to field on Christmas. And yes, that’s an historically accurate color.
Not many people still have the skills to make wagon wheels !!
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