Building me a N.W. tradegun. Again ! :D

[Rob M.]

Made the ramrod pipes ....mark length , line down middle , drill holes 1/16" , connect hole with hacksaw blade ....

 

[Rob M.]

Put inlet black on pipe , tap pipe in then pull out , remove black until edge on both ends is level with bottom of ramrod channel . Check depth marks , spot you pin hole then drill it and pin ....do same for the other pipe ....

 

[Rob M.]

Carolina gun had to sit a spell so .... I just took the N.W. down the " in the rough " by taking down the forearm and forestock . The mortices need to be taken to roughed in shape for the whole gun to be " in the rough " but ....darn close . Zipped through it pretty quick before lazy evening time . its hangin on the wall.

 

[Rob M.]

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[WALT53]

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Rob I’m thinking if you put your new trade gun some place besides above the door ,like a closet or some place out of site you might be able to keep her .Well you know out of site out of mind. Lol

 

[Rob M.]

LOL !! I gotta keep it close..I keep taking it down and making " bang bang " noises ! Im excited !

Rob I’m thinking if you put your new trade gun some place besides above the door ,like a closet or some place out of site you might be able to keep her .Well you know out of site out of mind. Lol

 

[Rob M.]

 

[WALT53]

Looking good.Another good looker.

 

[WALT53]

Looking good

 

[Cayman like]

Looking good

As Shemp Howard said "love it, love it".

 

[Bnewberry]

LOL !! I gotta keep it close..I keep taking it down and making " bang bang " noises ! Im excited !

Don’t finish it or you will not have it for more than two weeks afterwards!

 

[2 shots]

lookin good as always

 

[Rob M.]

Don’t finish it or you will not have it for more than two weeks afterwards!

So funny you would say that ! When I was working on it I was thinking of my buddy Edson Myers , an old-time gunsmith , helped me get started back in the early 90s , great guy. Any who ...when he wanted to keep a gun he would never finish it . I'd always wondered for years why his N.W. trade gun wasn't sanded smooth and didn't have a finish coat on it , never knew why but Ken Netting just told me last year .Every time he finished his gun someone would love it and make him an offer he couldn't refuse , and they always needed the money , so he'd lose his gun and have to start another .LOL ! I guess I'm carrying on his tradition .

 

[Rob M.]

Just weighed it ... 5 5/8 pds. and still a bunch of wood to rasp and sand off . Cool beans.

 

[Rob M.]

lookin good as always

Thanks.

 

[Rob M.]

Front blade soldered on ....

 

[Rob M.]

Start of the rear sight on my N.W. gun ... Incredible pain in the arse this way , you can't dovetail them in authentic sized barrels , too thin esp. when this far forward , but when its done it'll help tremendously to extend the range of ye old Fuke

 

[Rob M.]

Started sighting g her in ....thought this group , straight up and down was kinda funny ...gettin windage dialed in ! LOL ....had to bend the barrel a bit

 

[Rob M.]

Refining mortices and forestock a bit ... Slabbed off extra thickness of S.P. mortice first then refined it ... Bent barrel a bit more and took front blade down a bit . Might shoot it again today see if any difference ....we'll see ....

 

[Rob M.]

Mortices much closer to done .... Need to inlet S.P. half way down then shorten lock bolts to final length in a bit ....