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Thanks for the picture and the hint. Nice Rifle. One of my rifles is going to have thye skip line checkering and the other just carving on the wrist area. Cheers Niall

Thanks, I have both books and have been using the pictures am using the pictures as guides in my designs.

Thanks Emery, I have that book and about 6 others that show his rifles and have used them all to plan and design most of the side views of the rifles. But what the books don't show enough pictures of is the top view or the bottom view of things like the trigger guard or the entry pipe areas etc...

Thanks Mike but I have over $1000 in books but they still don't show those details unless you know of some I don't. Cheers Niall

I am building building 2 Melchoir Fordney rifles and have very few pictures in my books of how he engraved and carved his guns. I have enough pictures of the stock work but have few pictures of his original work on butt plates, tang carving, toe plates and forestock carving. Does anybody out...

I generally remove both the cast tabs and silver solder new ones onto the guard. The front tab I like to move back towards the trigger bow as practical so I can make the ramrod as long as possible. I also like to make the tab long enough so the front pin is hidden behind both the lock and side...

You are in luck, I just had one custom made from a carbide blank to my size specifications. You must have a router that will take bits with a 1/2" shank though. You can look up their web site at the following address http://www.taylortoolworks.com/index.html. The bits are not cheep though around...

There are good instructions on how to make a sliding wooden patch box in The Gunsmith of Grenville County article in Muzzleloader Magazine dated Nov/Dec 1993 page 19 and Jan/Feb 1994 page 17. Also the same information is included in the gun building book The Gunsmith of Grenville County by Peter...