Building short N.W. Trade Gun ...

[Rob M.]

Thanks Rob another good guy out there sharing what he knows of course this thread is book marked thanks for sharing your knowledge and time posting all this great information!

Ah , yer welcome bud . Let's me chat with some nice like minded folks and perhaps it might help someone in the process .... Ain't trying to be Mr. Ned Know it all or nothing ....just the way I do it ...

 

[Rob M.]

Center up your buttplate , top and bottom , and trace the top tang ...knock the core er off the wood ,just a bit , then inlet the tang down to flush ...

 

[Rob M.]

Make nails , punch holes in buttplate then nail that sucker on ... Be sure and knock down around all the edges , take out gaps ...buttplate on .... Tomorrow be making a trigger guard ..

 

[Rob M.]

Mark the thickness of your lock bolster o. The side plate side and run a line down the barrel ....slab these off but be accurate and careful by S.P. side esp. ... Mark layout line for side plate mortice and top of comb ....rough in stage for mortices back is coming soon ....

 

[WALT53]

This one is fighting me too ,LOL... They all just want to go back to being a tree . I should have had the buttplate on and making the trigger guard today but just got back from a giant flea market they have here twice a year ... Found an old original 20ga. barrel ....

Nice I wish we had more of that kind of stuff around hear but fat chance of that,we gotta go south for it go figure.

 

[Rob M.]

Nice I wish we had more of that kind of stuff around hear but fat chance of that,we gotta go south for it go figure.

It was funny
.. I went just to do something and get out a bit , it ain't far away ....I sure dont need any junk , I'm a bit of minimalist ..So on the way there I. Telling myself " No u necessary junk Rob ' , I'm looking for leather for a belt I want to make , a house jack , any old gun parts ( well over 100 yr.old types )... As soon as I walk in the row of salers there is a leather beltmaker ( leather was too narrow ) and a house jack right by him ! Bit later I ran across a nice feller that had the antique gun barrel I bought , he had two flintlock mechanism s too ! ( cheap o ) .... So strange ...the exact things I said I was looking for ! I got the barrel and house jack ...with parking cost I got out of there with $35 expenditure .... Cheaper than I could have EVER bought a house jack for anywhere else ! Back to work though ....

 

[Rob M.]

Mortice back " in the rough " ...very rough ...Wow ! This is some nasty burl $#!+ ! Wished I'd know before , I'd have thrown it in the firewood shed . Its for me so I'll just contend with it since I've come so far with it ... Going g to be a nightmare to cut the comb flutes in this hard @$% $#!+ !! Gonna get this rough in done then work on Frenchy a bit ....

 

[Rob M.]

Gettin her worked down...taking out fish belly etc. This burl is kicking my @$$ !

 

[Rob M.]

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[Rob M.]

Alright ....put her up for a bit .... Come here Frenchy !

 

[WALT53]

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I think that short little gun is going to have a lot of character .

 

[Rob M.]

Its gonna have LOTS of patina ! Thats for sure ! The butt stock is full of deep cracks from the burl ....

I think that short little gun is going to have a lot of character .

 

[Rob M.]

Ramrod pipe ....lay it in position , mark front and back in RR channel , mark front of pipe .... Take out , pencil line down middle , 1/16" drill center line , cut that out with piece of hacksaw blade , blacken pipe and put it in there , twist it and take it out ....start inletting ..I chisel straight down on both lines first ....take out the black ....repeat until bottom touches channel ...

 

[Rob M.]

When it get down to bed , metal even or below wood in channel , then mark your guide lines and drill ....pin it ..

 

[Rob M.]

Ok ...here's a big ole weird one
...gotta fix the muzzle end of the forestock . I know a LOT of builders that would leave it like this but $#@&% that . I'm gonna graft a piece of cherry in there . Got lots of scrap around here ...after it cures over night , clapped tight , then I'll cut , shape and barrel gouge that sucker out so I can have a nice shape on the muzzle end of the stock ... This is one weird stock !! Fits my personality I'd say !!

 

[TDM]

Ok ...here's a big ole weird one
...gotta fix the muzzle end of the forestock . I know a LOT of builders that would leave it like this but $#@&% that . I'm gonna graft a piece of cherry in there . Got lots of scrap around here ...after it cures over night , clapped tight , then I'll cut , shape and barrel gouge that sucker out so I can have a nice shape on the muzzle end of the stock ... This is one weird stock !! Fits my personality I'd say !!

I’m already starting to miss being able to immerse myself in a build. But I doubt I’ll ever do a full plank build. Love watching you do it though!

 

[Rob M.]

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[Rob M.]

I'm sure no one , including myself , knows what these are or what they are for . Cherry tooth picks made for a cherry stock where someone may have screwed up and drilled a bit too low so they need to plug up the " mistake hole " ... Not that I have ever had to make or use these I'm simply posting this for other mere mortals ...just in case. Use authentic colonial slow set epoxy , tap them in and let set over night , er , uhmmm ....so I've heard

 

[Rob M.]

Ok , try his again ...on the right page I hope ! LOL ...took clamps off, cut the tooth pics off , everything looks good . Re bed the barrel , went well , then slabbed off the relief at bottom then roughed the shape in not only at new wood graft area but whole forearm forward ...lookin good ...glad I did it

 

[Rob M.]

Got the whole N.W. fuke in the " roughed in " stage ... Dont look too bad ... Coffee break now , or these d@mn pics wouldnt downloads AF , LOL ... But making the trigger guard , setting it , drilling tang screw , etc . has to come next ....Man ! I have lots of metal for trigger guards ! Enough for my life time ! Just got a bunch more today ! Wish I could say that about brass ! I'm afraid to even ponder the price of sheetbrass these days ...