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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    bye sir
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    No sir I’m a disable vet and this hobby helped me a lot. Bye
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    my point had nothing to do with it being a kit, I was using pictures of my gun as an example as to how a authentic gun would have looked brand new back then, I was not saying all should look like this, I was just trying to let a few people know that in the white and polished was was authentic...
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    I used iron nitrate, and tannic acid
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    Thanks my Kibler kit was just shown to let people see how I finished mine as far as the barrel and brass and lock. I’m sure their are thousands of authentic guns, I was just trying to show mine as one also like a new one that might have been purchased back then. I will leave this forum
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    Beautiful gun, yes internet research, but yours looks like it has some aging to it. I’m talking a new gun back then. I’m sure there is always those special guns, but I’m referring to most rifles back then. Yours looks to be a SMR
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    Thank you, yes they had emery paper back then for polishing. Article from 1754 , and 1755 mentions it, along with other various compounds and materials for polishing. Paul Revere was quite the expert on it back then.
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    thanks, no I didn’t do much research on wood because it varied in location of the gunsmith I believe and what was available or suitable. I do know maple was used a lot
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    Thanks man
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    I’m not 100% sure but I believe Americans realized this during the revolution, I’m sure many more were available after the revolution and more common
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    Yep mines got no carving or ornamentation either, just the barrel and lock in the white, and the brass polished, oh and Kiblers brass patch box cover plate installed.
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    Thanks
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    Thank you, not my years and years of research, but others over the years, that’s out there for the reading. I posted my rifle before on here in another thread, just wanted to use it again in this post for the finishing aspect part.
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    Colonial rifle build for authenticity

    After years and years of research, and documentation on the American Colonial Rifle, And this is only for the builders who want their rifles to look the same as they did when purchased new back in 1760-1770. This is not for builders who try to replicate 100s of years of patina. #1 barrel and...
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    Help with Kibler decision

    S This is my Kibler Colonial. It’s .54 caliber, the most accurate caliber I believe. And my wood is just the fancy maple, not the extra fancy.
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    Kibler Colonial rifle

    The tannic acid is the very first thing you use, if you have any figure in your wood, it really makes it pop (darker and more defined) then follow that with your iron nitrate then the heat gun. Jim Kibler has some great YouTube videos on doing this very traditional and authentic finish on rifles
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    Kibler Colonial rifle

    thanks, I used kiblers tannic acid, kiblers iron nitrate and a little of his bone black, then 12 coats of helmsman spar varnish semi gloss
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    Kibler Colonial rifle

    Thank you, I used kiblers tannic acid, kiblers iron nitrate and some of his bone black, then 12 coats of helmsman spar varnish semi gloss
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