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  1. dave_person

    Who charcoal blues Fowler barrels

    Hi Tex, This will help. You have to scroll down a bit to get to the part about staining black walnut. https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/turning-a-pedersoli-bess-into-a-dublin-castle-short-land-musket.138872/page-7 dave
  2. dave_person

    How to polish this sideplate

    Hi, I've made, sculpted, polished, and engraved many of these kind of side plates. First, clean up all the edges with needle files. A half round file will be your most valuable shape. If you have a jeweler's saw, use it to get into the tight spots along the edges. Then the plate needs...
  3. dave_person

    Who charcoal blues Fowler barrels

    Hi Texcl2, You are most welcome and thanks for complimenting the fowler. It is my apprentice Maria's first gun. It is English walnut and the rough blank was purchased from Jim Kibler. Jim just about gave it to us as a gift given what he charged. Tex, I believe rust browning started to take...
  4. dave_person

    Who charcoal blues Fowler barrels

    Hi Texcl2, A high quality British gun during the late 1760s-1770s might have a barrel that was rust browned but it would also have a standing breech, flat barrel keys, better carving, and would not have a round-faced lock. A high quality gun from that time could have a Spanish barrel that was...
  5. dave_person

    Who charcoal blues Fowler barrels

    Hi, If you want to be historically correct, Kibler's fowler is a modest quality trade gun or export fowler. It would probably not have a blued barrel of any sort. For this style gun, I apply instant blue to the barrel and then rub it back with a maroon Scotch Bright pad. The idea is to create...
  6. dave_person

    Making a Rev War Period British Carbine

    Hi, I am getting close to the home stretch for this gun. The butt plate is on and fits nicely. You can see a bit of the rough stock profiling near the toe of the plate. It will be fine. There is no lug under the tang for a cross pin on the plate so I am debating about just drilling and...
  7. dave_person

    Pattern 1776 Rifle

    Hi Nick, I do not think so but I really don't know. dave
  8. dave_person

    Pattern 1776 Rifle

    Hi SA, You are right but very few seem to be reading the OP's original post. He is not asking about the British pattern 1776 muzzleloading rifle. He is asking about the German made rifles by Huhnstock that were purchased before the pattern 1776 was made and which had the ramrod swivel...
  9. dave_person

    Navy Arms Miroku Charleville parts?

    Hi, I wonder if that is the original stock or perhaps it was a kit gun. If you remove the third barrel band (the one that covers the ramrod hole) is there a joint indicating a two-piece stock? Many guys mistakenly stain muskets really dark, almost black. Here is an original French model 1766...
  10. dave_person

    Hawkins lock finish?

    Hi, FYI it is "Hawken" rifle not "Hawkins" . At least some locks on Hawken rifles appear to have had color case hardening. They likely case hardened all of their locks because they were made from wrought iron and had to be cased to achieve a skin of steel for wear. However, they likely did...
  11. dave_person

    Walnut finish problem

    Hi, As long as you sanded the stock smooth after letting the slurry dry, you probably just need to add more coats of finish. It concerned me when you wrote you applied a coat, waited 15 minutes and then applied another coat. I may be misunderstanding you but after sanding the dried slurry...
  12. dave_person

    Making a Rev War Period British Carbine

    Hi, More work done. The lock is in and functioning properly. All of the cast in markings on the lock plate have to be removed and correct engraved marks added. The TRS lock has markings from the carbine pattern for 1799 and appropriate for wars against Napoleon not the American War for...
  13. dave_person

    Birmingham proof marks

    Hi, As Rudyard wrote, they are private Tower proof marks. Gun makers could pay the Tower to have their barrels proofed rather than send them to the London Guild proof house. These marks have often been misidentified as early Birmingham marks or as Ketland proof marks. dave
  14. dave_person

    English style blunderbuss build

    Hi Andy, Yes, there were masterful engravers in London; however, they pumped out the work fast and sometimes it was not so masterful but effective nonetheless. If you are trying to be authentic to the 18th century, do not use extensive precise cross hatching for shading as shown in Schipper's...
  15. dave_person

    English style blunderbuss build

    Hi Andy, Very good work! If you look straight on the cutting blade of my tools, you would see the blade is football shaped in cross section with the ends rounded slightly. That allows me to step along a curved line without the ends of the blade creating a jagged step-like incised line. I...
  16. dave_person

    English style blunderbuss build

    Hi, It is looking very good! I think you have the English flavor down. Keep the flats around your lock really thin even to the point of almost not existing. Make sure the top of the comb is angled such that if you lay a ruler on edge on top of it, the edge will pass through the flint ****...
  17. dave_person

    Making a Pattern 1756 Long Land British Musket

    Hi, Here is a tidbit that you will never know unless you shoot a historically correct King's musket. Below is the typical nose cap and stock of a Pedersoli or Miroku Bess. Note the abrupt step to form the ramrod groove just behind the nose cap and almost half of the flared mouth of the first...
  18. dave_person

    Making a Pattern 1756 Long Land British Musket

    Hi, I don't use the gel and I don't thin the AcraGlas. I just mix the epoxy as usual per instructions and use only a small amount of flock to thicken the mix slightly. You don't need to thin the epoxy. dave
  19. dave_person

    Pedersoli Brown Bess ?’s

    Hi SA, Thank you and I do know a bit from study and quite a bit of research work, and building and shooting these historical guns. The fate of Ferguson's experimental rifle corps is a fascinating story. After Ferguson was wounded at Brandywine, why did General Howe disband the corps, which was...
  20. dave_person

    Pedersoli Brown Bess ?’s

    Hi, It was not powder fouling that doomed the Fergusons. It was the weakness in the stock behind the lock. All Fergusons that show hard use such as the 2 ordnance rifles still surviving and several made for the East India Company, are broken across the stock just in front of the screw plug...
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