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Joliver: I will go with everything Paul said. I have also found that a musket worm (two prong worm - see TOTW) works very nicely to get a cleaning patch into the cupped end of the breech. Just add a little solvent and stuff the patch into the bore with the worm, run in down and turn it...

Meplat: Oh, I forgot, Mike Brooks has put up a very nice tutorial on general rifle building in the Members Resources forum. Mike F

Meplat: Finished a Jim Bridger from TOW last year. This build will be a bit different from a kit kit. This is more like a "here is your pile of parts - have fun" kit. By the way - it is a lot more fun, if a lot longer to do. If you didn't get the plans from TOW, get them - big help on stock...

Bluejacket: The keys I started with had slots, but they were way too short to clear the barrel staples. Simply scribed a line on the keys centerline, got out the flat needle file - had a "dead" side and a "live" side, clamped the key up on the big bench vise, put the file through the existing...

Bob243: Whiskering raises up the fractured ends of the wood grain you broke up when you sanded the stock. Whiskering with water (what I use on maple) brings all them little broken ends up so they can be cut off with very fine sand paper (400 grit or better) and finally with steel wool. I would...

MSW: Sure... a tap guide is a 6" long tool that has a shaft, say 3" long, that goes into the chuck on the drill press. The other end is a small spring loaded rod that rides up into the base for about an inch or two - with a nice center cone turned onto the end. You put the piece to be tapped...

Ditto to what Birddog6 says. I got a small drill press from Sears. Paid less than 130$ for it new. Bench top, but it works just as described by Birddog6. Really worth it considering the aggrivation of missing the hole. Also, its good for getting your taps in dead straight. I got a tap...

Well, I can not speak for anyone else, but.... The inletting on the hooked breech with the long tang and getting the barrel to snap fit to the breech while trying to inlet the tapered barrel to a "one touch fit" with the inletting black was tough, even though I started with them both glued...

Matabelle: And by "tweak" he means ever so carefully deeper on the countersink until the screw locks tight parallel to the barrel line. You only get one shot at this so go slow, check often. Mike

Ditto (several times) what J.D. said. Bench top is fine for nearly everything, but bigger is better! Mike F

burgessrudy: Onething to watch on the inletting black (from Zonie) buy a stencil brush from a craft store with instructions on how to use it (pat, don't paint, use only enough to get a shawdow). Use the stencil brush to apply the inletting black, you get a much chrisper shadow and much, much...

Trot: The American Walnut is / can be very brown to light brown on maple. I cut it 4 to 1 with thinner to get a medium brown. Since it is a true penetrating stain, it gets darker with more coats. Used unthinned I think it is actually too dark for my taste. I would buy it with the thinner and...

Fisher King: Goodoien Barrel, rifled. Will have to go weigh one. Mike

Well, I took my just finished, custom - 60 cal Hawken (expertly stocked (by me :rotf: ) to the range yesterday. I have not fired a BP weapon in over 30 years, so it was fun afternoon. I think my buddy half expected the thing to blow up when I fired it, so i kinda think he was there out of...

Hobbes: Gun and Sport North, 248 A Broadway North, Lawrence, MA. they carry Goex. Small shop, but they do carry BP, in spite of several attempts by the State to get them to stop. Mike

Zonie: Now I know where all that good advice comes (came) from. Mike

Norwood. Oh well, I am North Shore, looking for recruits for my "Fish and Game" Association. You will have to call around for powder - and make sure to ask if they have anything else than FFg. Otherwise, it is a long drive. Mike

WabishMukwa: Not to repeat, but GOAL is a great site. I purchased a "parts" kit from Track of the Wolf, no problem (short of having to put the parts together into a rifle). Powder can be a problem, but a gun shop in Lawerance MA carries the stuff, in spite of several attempts to get them to...

Wick: How long have you been doing that? Mike

1895man: Try this from TOTW: Link Butt end to tap what sticks out, thin end to push or tap it the rest of the way. Mike