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    Butt Plate and Toe Plate for Bucks County Rifle

    When I decided to build Bucks County LRs, Shuler's BCs were chosen to emulate because of the slightly curved comblines and he was a somewhat later BC builder whose BCs incorporated nearly all the BC features. Shown below is one of my early attempts of a BC. .....very different than my later...
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    Butt Plate and Toe Plate for Bucks County Rifle

    Here's some more pics. One click will make them larger and show the entire part. The often shown Andrew Verner BC isn't the BC style used by most original BC builders. In reality, it looks like a Lancaster version of a BC w/ it's Lancaster style BP and straight comb. The Pbox is probably the...
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    Butt Plate and Toe Plate for Bucks County Rifle

    I think Knob Mountain has the BP and TG. These weren't available when my many BCs were built. Used other BPs and modified them to look BC. Below are some pics of my BCs. The toeplate has a surrounding inlay which isn't BC. If addt'l pics are wanted, let me know....the toe plate is made from not...
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    Where can you find brass slotted flathead woodscrews ?

    Never used even one brass screw permanently on a LR build, ....not only because they're not HC but the slots also get easily damaged......Fred
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    Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Figure in the Wood?

    When first starting to build LRs, I bought highly figured sugar maple which was very expensive and soon realized that it was a waste of money. So then bought hard red maple which had sufficient figure at a much lower price. Have used this for the LRs ever since....even this didn't have a...
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    Steel for triggers?

    My single triggers are made from .100 thick cold rolled steel....very easy to peen the trigger shoes. When mounted, the location of the trigger bar that the sear bar contacts has a hardened high speed steel insert soldered in.... high speed steel isn't affected by the soldering temps......Fred
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    Ram Rod Drill Bit

    My RR drills were made when I was working in a toolroom. The shank of the drill was ground down for a suitable length and pressed into a drilled hole in the end of a length of drill rod and then high temp silver soldered. The other end of the drill rod was drilled for a length of Allen Wrench...
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    So I Had This C-Clamp, But I Really Needed A Trigger...Hmmm...Pic Heavy.

    Making triggers is enjoyable work and also quite easy to do. The only MLers of mine that had purchased triggers were from kits { 2}.
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    Barrel loops

    I sometimes made bbl lugs for keys out of shallow "U" shaped lengths of nails then drilled 2 shallow holes in the bbl. The legs of the" lugs" had grooves filed in and when the lugs are in the holes, bbl metal is peened into the grooves. For pinned bbls, dovetailed lugs were used as well...
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    Loose fore end cap

    A little epoxy.....Fred
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    My first flintlock is completed

    Like the LR, not so w/ the photos........Fred
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    Replacement TC Stocks

    The original TC stock was a serious and painful cheek slapper so I removed wood from the comb and cheekpece and it became very comfortable to shoot w/ even the .50 cal. 450 gr Buffalo Bullet elk loads. This TC MLer was my first one and and used it on squirrels , rabbits, deer and elk. PRBs...
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    How much do I leave

    When the forestock is sawed, I leave 1/8" per side and this is later reduced to 1/16". for a finished thickness.....Fred
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    T/C Hawken Build

    The .50 cal. TC Hawken {perc} was my first MLer and was assembled from a kit. W/ a PRB used it on squirrels {head hits only} and deer w/ a bigger PRB load. A 450 gr conical was used on elk. This rifle was used by many different people through the years and was always reliable and shot a lot of...
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    Pre-inlet stock a good idea for a beginner?

    Many years ago I bought a Hawken precarved kit from Pecatonica and checked the lock location when rec'd and found it to be mislocated. Called and then went to their shop and they agreed that the lock inlet location was wrong. Showed me another stock they had laying around but the LOP was way...
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    Patching in wood around an inlay

    All the repairs I've made were done when the stock was "in the white" and the sides of the inlet and patch were stained. Always used "super glue" which disolved the stain and the outline of the patch was invisible. Never had a patch loosen up when super glue was used. The grain of the patch...
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    First blank build

    I used a Dremel w/ the small grinding wheels and also the cutters every so often when building.....much faster than some other tools. The main reason for the Dremel's bad reputation is that grinding wheel or cutter rotation "climbs" the mat'l and grabs. Was in the toolroom and w/ the older...
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    First blank build

    I ink in the pattern and then bandsaw the blank as I rec'd it. Prior to this I usually sent out the blank to Dave Rase for bbl inletting. Once bandsawed, the blank is nearly like a precarve. ...except it still has more wood to be removed. After this, the normal steps are done until a nearly...
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    Chambers Build

    I've built 2 Chambers' Early Lancasters and although there were some errors, nothing that couldn't be fixed. Learned a lot from these parts sets even though I previously had built 4 LRs from blanks......Fred
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    Jim Chambers flintlock rifle kits

    I've built 2 Chambers Early Lancaster parts sets and both arrived shortly after the order was placed. There were a couple of mistakes which were repaired and learned a lot and the finished products were very handsome. Shown below is one of the Chambers LRs.....Fred
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