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  1. godutch

    Hudson Valley Fowlers Builders Nook

    HVF's require an 8' bed. That needs to be factored into the build cost of the gun :) And I'm tickled that you got orders for some too. "Guess strolling around with one, lit the lightbulb for a few guys. Very cool.
  2. godutch

    Hudson Valley Fowlers Builders Nook

    Now I'm curious. If you ever track him down please let me know!
  3. godutch

    Hudson Valley Fowlers Builders Nook

    If I was the little 5'7" guy in native kit walking around with a 6'4" HVF and looking like an *****, then yeah, that was me. That also would have been 20+ years ago. As a disclaimer, I was only carrying that because I'd brought it there to show L. Day and his boys since they were building the...
  4. godutch

    Hudson Valley Fowlers Builders Nook

    Different schools altogether IMHO. 'Best way to determine for yourself is to avail yourself of Grinslade's book for the club butts and HVF's, and Colonial Frontier Guns by TM Hamilton for a look at the Buccaneers.
  5. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    Amen to that. And I picked the easy style for this one, raised panels w/ incised line details. I'm relatively certain, as best I can recall, that it was more than an afternoon's process (sulk, sigh, and sob).
  6. godutch

    Hudson Valley Fowlers Builders Nook

    Due to my abbreviating Hudson Valley Fowler down to HVFowler this thread wouldn't show up when doing a search on these guns. Merriweather just straightened that out for me/us so a big thank you to our admin. This thread is for anyone who wants to contribute or avail themselves of the content...
  7. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    I have no counter argument (chuckle). But I'm equally happy in the shop. 'Suspect I'm not alone on that.
  8. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    That's both cryptic and ominous, maybe you could elaborate. Assuming you mean me and not Mike (?)
  9. godutch

    New Member

    Welcome from NY's Hudson Valley
  10. godutch

    Building ME a NW Trade Gun ! :)

    Keep us posted on the HVF build you have coming up. Great choice.
  11. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    Yup, 'been there. Good source. I bought a square back t/guard there about a year ago.
  12. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    'Always on the lookout for such things. What castings do you have? I'd like to see. Feel free to do a little post hijacking here if you have pics. It could help others out too at some point. Cheers.....
  13. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    Thanks, I'll put it up when it's done but right now we're down to watching coats of Tried and True dry. 'Good thing there's plenty of other spring jobs to be done. Good Grief that stuff dry's slow (chuckle) !
  14. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    Drop is 1 3/4" , b/plate w= 2 1/8",
  15. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    Well, ten thousand 'thank you's'. Make sure you put it up when you do it. A tall b/plate, a long comb, short wrist, and you're on your way!
  16. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    Cherry from a friends farm sawmill down in Forestport, PA. about 25 yrs. ago. Colerain's Griffon bbl. 16 ga., Chambers lock, Issac Haines trigger and plate, fusil de chasse sideplate, b/plate is trs's series 672 BP1 (my design), t/guard is the same trs series TG3. RR pipes are just run of the...
  17. godutch

    More Hudson Valley Dutch stuff

    This is my latest 'bun in the oven'. Almost done. If I get the pics up ok, the pic with the paper tracing and the fowler shows the tracing of one of two originals that I'd gotten 25 yrs. ago at The Senate House Museum (Kingston, NY).
  18. godutch

    Relief carving

    Crow, I make my own templates with plain old graph paper. Draw a centerline to work from, rough sketch what you think you want, and when you're happy with your basic design you can easily tweak it to 'symetrical', if that's what you want, just by counting lines off your center or up and down...
  19. godutch

    SOLD Long barreled monstrosity

    Here in NY that would no doubt be construed as a 'short barreled rifle'.
  20. godutch

    The Rifle Shoppe

    The 'series 509' references TRS's parts for that particular rifle. All of their part sets have a series #. This rifle is a very, very involved build. Thanks for the feedback, please keep me posted. I have pics of them both somewhere around here so I'll see if I can find them and put them...
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