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I’m down to about 1/16” now. What do you think about it now?

Yes; I have 53 year old eyes; placed the sight a little further forward for this. completed a little sight filing; how is that!

Spent some time with end mill and bandsaw. It fits and now need to file and shape the sight. also plan to file/sand sides to 1/16” wood to barrel.

Spent afternoon on endmill machine. Broke one dovetail bit🤬. Was able to get dovetails cut and close now. Still needs some fine tuning to fit. Still have to cut/mill remaining of sight. Col. what part still looks too thick? How much wood to leave along barrel sides? Is there a dimension is...

So did everything col. batguano said and rear sight ended up right where picture from tenngun suggested. now new problem; I cut my dovetail too long; stupid mistake now how to fix this? Stretch sight; solder in dovetail; make completely new sight from scratch.

Where to install rear sight?

Greeting I’m getting closer on finishing my Lancaster muzzle loader. Carvings and silver inlay mostly complete. Question; how far up the barrel do I cut in the rear sight? making front sight today, cheers! Chris

So, how to remove dry ball from a flint lock? Asking for a friend:ghostly:

Yes, looking for someone to engrave the brass, sorry carving wood on the brain.

Greetings all; I’ve been working on a Chambers Lancaster flintlock for the past year. I‘m working on carvings for the stock, this is going slow... I’ve made and fit a patch box from brass, also found some hand carving tools for the brass; I’m wanting to complete the rifle this year and looking...