Building a Fusil de Chasse

[PathfinderNC]

I like your designing and building explanations. These are such nice and graceful looking guns and I am looking forward to see your Fusil de Chasse being born.

 

[Coldfingers]

Following with great intrest.

 

[S.Kenton]

.... Stock blank and round tapered Ken Netting barrel ....gotta grind flats on barrel then start my layout , centerlines , on stock ....

Ken makes some nice barrels! He can make some pretty long ones too! How long does it take you to grind those flats?

 

[Rob M.]

Ken makes some nice barrels! He can make some pretty long ones too! How long does it take you to grind those flats?

He sure does ! And turns them down to my specs too , appreciate that. It takes too d@mn long !! LOL ! Long drawn out process . I'll grind until I just can't take it any more then do something else for awhile .... I keep doin that till she's done so I really don't know the exact length of time . Two days into it so far ....

 

[Rob M.]

I like your designing and building explanations. These are such nice and graceful looking guns and I am looking forward to see your Fusil de Chasse being born.

Very cool bud . I hope I dont bore ya ta death ! See if I can find ya a pic of one of my finished Fusil de Chasse on this here phone .... Found a couple ! And WOW !! The phone downloaded them quick ! Will wonders never cease !

 

[S.Kenton]

Man those are really nice! How do they do as far as cheek slapping goes?

 

[Rob M.]

Following with great intrest.

Very cool . All my builds are slow as all get out but this one shouldn't be too terrible bad as I'm only on it right now ...

 

[Rob M.]

LOL ! Well .... They dont pop ya in the cheek bone hardly at all with 50-60 gr.....With 90 they will make you see stars . With 110 we'll call for the stretcher ! All in what ya want !

 

[Rob M.]

Grab your gouge and start the primary channel , just follow the centerline . This gouge is a bit undersize so no reason to worry if you just follow the line ....see which way to go so you ain't " buckin the grain " , ie fighting it ...this one likes to go toward the breech .....get to it . Take breaks and grind on barrel ....back and forth ...

 

[Rob M.]

And keep grinding and grinding and grinding and grinding ......bleh !!!

 

[PathfinderNC]

Learning something here. I would have thought to do the ram rod channel first. Is there a benefit to doing the barrel first or does it even matter?
Thanks!

 

[Rob M.]

Learning something here. I would have thought to do the ram rod channel first. Is there a benefit to doing the barrel first or does it even matter?
Thanks!

Nope , barrel first . The barrel dictates everything else about the build and is the center line to the whole build . Plus ...if the ramrod were done first you would have to be very careful not to have the RR hole or the barrel channel touch and hope and pray the RR hole and barrel channel were parallel . Barrel first , breech and tang , then ramrod groove , then ramrod hole in forearm , 3/16" thick web , then barrel tennons on , barrel tennons bedded in channel and pinned , lock inlet , lock bolts in , trigger made and inlet/ pinned , buttplate made , LOP marked then buttplate put on , trigger guard and tang screw , ramrod pipes ..... Then ....start shaping

 

[PathfinderNC]

Nope , barrel first . The barrel dictates everything else about the build and is the center line to the whole build . Plus ...if the ramrod were done first you would have to be very careful not to have the RR hole or the barrel channel touch and hope and pray the RR hole and barrel channel were parallel . Barrel first , breech and tang , then ramrod groove , then ramrod hole in forearm , 3/16" thick web , then barrel tennons on , barrel tennons bedded in channel and pinned , lock inlet , lock bolts in , trigger made and inlet/ pinned , buttplate made , LOP marked then buttplate put on , trigger guard and tang screw , ramrod pipes ..... Then ....start shaping

Thank you!!!

 

[büchsenmacher64]

And keep grinding and grinding and grinding and grinding ......bleh !!!

Do some of your customers want a full round barrel?

 

[Rob M.]

Do some of your customers want a full round barrel?

Never had that asked of me yet. I suspect because it would be un authentic ....

 

[Rob M.]

Thank you!!!

Not being a know it all but FYI ....if you ever want to learn from the best , get Hershel Houses rifle building VDO from , I think it was 1991 . Helped me tremendously .....

 

[Rob M.]

Good gawd ! Finally ! Flats ground on ....refine with filing ...

 

[Rob M.]

Unbreech your barrel ..... Center it and make lines , straight down both sides . Use as rough guide for now . Chisel straight down at breech and gouge in towards the back ...get that rough channel to the breech ....stay way inside those lines for now ....

 

[Rob M.]

Ok ...now keep putting barrel to the back , flat and hold center , mark if yaneed to ... Take chisel and cut down each side of barrel channel then ...repeat ....keep doing this watching your center . If it needs it just cut on one side ....keep doing this till the breech slips down in there .....

 

[Rob M.]

Straight down on sides till breech slides in there ...watch your center line !