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Breech plug tang inletted and flushed. Also got the "LONDON" engraved on the barrel.....

With most of the wood removed with the ball cutter, it only took a short while to finish the barrel inlet with hand tools and a Frank...

Had a chance to start in on inletting the barrel. Used a ball cutter to remove the bulk of the wood and will finish the inlet by hand...

Got the bulk of the patch box engraving completed today including sweating on the sterling silver onlay. Still some details to attend...

Pathfinder, Thank you for the very kind (but undeserved) compliment. I'm learning (slowly) but there are many, many builders /...

Brokennock, I neglected to take pictures but my usual method is to first file the square shaft end to size. Then I drill a hole in...

Thank you all for the kind words.....Here is the finial for the box.....almost done. Still some details to go. On the door I will...

Patch box parts fitted and then removed from the stock for mounting and engraving..... Also installed the patch box closure spring in...

I always engrave the box off the gun.....along with anything else I can. The thin brass parts will need to be well supported to keep...

More tedious work.....at least for me.....

Always tedious to inlet complicated brass patch box parts....but a little at a time it gradually gets done. Door and finial in....side...

Finished the assembly of the door / hinge / finial of the patch box. Finished shaping the finial after cutting it out. Then burnt off...

was gone for a month and more. Today I had a chance to print out a copy of a patchbox I did on another rifle (in 2012 or 2014), scaled...

I was getting ready to bend the breech plug tang and was tired of doing it the same way I have always done it with a lead hammer and on...

I really dislike installing a butt plate. The only part I dislike more is installing a rear ram rod pipe. >:( At any rate, I spent...