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With a carbide square hand graver and hammer. Tap, tap, tap … repeat. Drew the lettering with a fine point sharpie and followed the lines. Sharpened tip to a very short .030” heel. (GRS Tools 022-618 C-Max Carbide)

Patchbox came out OK … next to the original. Waiting on the screws to brown so I can put it back on the stock.

Barrel engraved as well. Will start its browning process later today …

Lock has been disassembled, parts browned as necessary, neutralized, oiled, and reassembled.

Thank you. Once the metal is browned and I do the final assembly I’ll post pics.

Thank you.

Rest of the pics.

The Boiled Linseed Oil stock finish is coming up nicely. The more I work it, the better the color and sheen get. Just a few more hand-rubbed coats of BLO and I’m going to call the stock finished. Now just have to get the iron prepped and browned, and the patch box engraving completed.

Final fit-up before browning begins. All that’s left is to brown all the iron parts, engrave the patch box, a few more hand-rubbed coats of BLO, and final assembly.

Beautiful

Nicely done!

Clear pics after the first few coats of oil. The stock wood is no longer soaking the oil in, so all remaining coats will be very thin, hand rubbed, applications.

@Zutt-man I use all alcohol based stains for stock finishing. The mixture I used on this stock is a 3:2 mix of Chestnut Ridge Gunstock stain with Red and R Gale Lock Co. #69. That’s the base. I then added 1/2 part dark brown Fiebing’s and 1 part mahogany Feibing’s. It needed a little brown...

Well, the soak stage is over … the color came out exactly where I wanted it. A few days to cure and more coats of BLO will be hand-rubbed in.

Stages of color process … First coat of stain, third coat of stain, fifth coat, seventh coat after steel wool, eighth coat after steel wool, last two pics are first soak coat of Boiled Linseed Oil kept wet about two hours. It’ll then be wiped dry and hung a few days to cure.

Like I said before, I’ve decades of woodworking behind me, but believe me when I say that I’ve never built a flintlock before in my life. That said, I have two mentors teaching, guiding, and encouraging me, without whom I would not be in the position I am. Truth

Color check … hickory ramrod displaying color mix for rifle. The stain is a combination of several shades of alcohol based wood stains and Feibing’s leather dyes. A custom mix I created many years ago, and adjusted to the correct shade and red level for a realistic Jacob Dickert color.

Not quite artistic, but over 45 years of woodworking experience and a passion for working with my hands. The drawings took over two weeks just to get on paper. Burned up a lot of time because of lack of drawings skills. Graph paper helped immensely. But it is, in fact, the first flintlock I have...

Now that’s pretty lighting … Almost finished with this side.

Well that was exhausting …