Building yet another NW gun

[Rob M.]

Please keep posting pictures. Looks very nice

Thanks bud . Ill post a few when the ramrod and barrel are finished but I'm on to another NW trade gun build now as the barrel browns , it'll take 10-15 days in these non humid winter days for the present barrel to brown up well .

 

[MTplainsman]

I can't believe I have missed this whole thread! What's wrong with me? I just walked through all the pages and really enjoyed this process. Not too often do you get to see the stages of a gun built like this. Thanks Rob!

 

[Rob M.]

I can't believe I have missed this whole thread! What's wrong with me? I just walked through all the pages and really enjoyed this process. Not too often do you get to see the stages of a gun built like this. Thanks Rob!

Ah! Cool bud ! Glad you found it .....

 

[Rob M.]

I love having it in the cabin

 

[Rob M.]

I have been enjoying your posts. Your work is beautiful.

What do use for the buttplate nails?

Just some nailed on buttplate pics . I think they are neat looking

 

[Notchy Bob]

It has been great, watching the progress on this gun, and I’m very pleased to see a professional builder making authentic, affordable, top-quality trade guns. I got a nice one in 20 gauge from North Star West about a year before they abruptly closed, and a 24 gauge Northwest gun from Caywood. I guess I’m fixed, but I like to see proper guns available for those who appreciate them. Danny Caywood is still building, but I understand he is looking for a way to retire. We are lucky to have @Rob M. stepping into the breach.

Rob, have you thought about introducing a trade pistol as a companion for your long guns? NSW used to offer one, and I think the long-defunct Green River Forge was the first to bring these to our attention with their “Factor’s Pistol.”

Just curious, mind you…. I do not need another gun, I do not need another gun…

Notchy Bob

 

[Kansas Jake]

Notchy Bob, we all know need has nothing to do with it.

 

[Rob M.]

It has been great, watching the progress on this gun, and I’m very pleased to see a professional builder making authentic, affordable, top-quality trade guns. I got a nice one in 20 gauge from North Star West about a year before they abruptly closed, and a 24 gauge Northwest gun from Caywood. I guess I’m fixed, but I like to see proper guns available for those who appreciate them. Danny Caywood is still building, but I understand he is looking for a way to retire. We are lucky to have @Rob M. stepping into the breach.

Rob, have you thought about introducing a trade pistol as a companion for your long guns? NSW used to offer one, and I think the long-defunct Green River Forge was the first to bring these to our attention with their “Factor’s Pistol.”

Just curious, mind you…. I do not need another gun, I do not need another gun…

Notchy Bob

Very kind words . I'm no professional just a hillbilly that loves trade guns and has a couple wood chisels , LOL ! I'd love to offer a pistol , a trade pistol , what a shocker ! , and have made a couple but that's down the line a bit . I want to get to the point of making NW trade guns at a reduced price first hen perhaps branch out into the same with a companion pistol and Type G at reduced prices . We'll see .... I he price of a scratch build pistol is just too much . I'd be embarrassed yo ask a grand for a pistol and that's what it would have to be ...that's silly. I'll try and find pics of my pistol . I patterned it after an original and it turned out nice .

 

[Rob M.]

It has been great, watching the progress on this gun, and I’m very pleased to see a professional builder making authentic, affordable, top-quality trade guns. I got a nice one in 20 gauge from North Star West about a year before they abruptly closed, and a 24 gauge Northwest gun from Caywood. I guess I’m fixed, but I like to see proper guns available for those who appreciate them. Danny Caywood is still building, but I understand he is looking for a way to retire. We are lucky to have @Rob M. stepping into the breach.

Rob, have you thought about introducing a trade pistol as a companion for your long guns? NSW used to offer one, and I think the long-defunct Green River Forge was the first to bring these to our attention with their “Factor’s Pistol.”

Just curious, mind you…. I do not need another gun, I do not need another gun…

Notchy Bob

I really liked this pistol . it went to Texas . 20 ga.

 

[BillinOregon]

Greatly enjoying this thread. Rob, your eye for the proper line is nothing short of magic -- and that you can tease it out of a piece of walnut in all its glorious perfection with a few rasps seems a miracle to a wood butcher like me.

 

[Rob M.]

Greatly enjoying this thread. Rob, your eye for the proper line is nothing short of magic -- and that you can tease it out of a piece of walnut in all its glorious perfection with a few rasps seems a miracle to a wood butcher like me.

Why thank you Sir , very kind . I am so glad other folks like my guns

 

[mikesto44]

Rob has got me hooked on building these guns...!
They are fun to do....! Mostly because you can make just about every part on the gun. Except the barrel and lock....Fun times...

 

[Rob M.]

Rob has got me hooked on building these guns...!
They are fun to do....! Mostly because you can make just about every part on the gun. Except the barrel and lock....Fun times...

See ?!! You've caught the bug ! I'd love to be on here 6 months from now and everyone is in the process of building a NW trade gun for themselves ! That would be awesome !!

 

[Khufu]

I have been wanting to build one for a long time, there is just one part I can't find. Since I am a southpaw, it seems impossible to find a left hand side plate. is there even such a thing?

 

[Cruzatte]

I have been wanting to build one for a long time, there is just one part I can't find. Since I am a southpaw, it seems impossible to find a left hand side plate. is there even such a thing?

I have had the same dilemma. Except I wanted a French gun. No one makes them left handed nowadays, despite the fact that there are two photographed in Kevin Gladysz's book on French trade guns.

But then I realized that once upon a time, I owned a double barrel shotgun, and having two locks never bothered me then. No matter which side a man shoots from, with a double, there's always going to be a lock inches away from his nose.

So I just admitted to reality, and bought a bog standard fusil de chasse parts set from Track of the Wolf. I've been shooting that right handed gun left handed now for nearly three years. And it doesn't seem to bother me at all.

The beauty of trade guns is that in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, they were all built to pattern, almost cookie-cutter like. It kept costs down. Then the hunter who had a trade gun adapted his shooting to the gun.

It will take a bit of practice getting used to a bit different loading technique. But after a few sessions at the range, you'll manage it.

 

[Rob M.]

I have had the same dilemma. Except I wanted a French gun. No one makes them left handed nowadays, despite the fact that there are two photographed in Kevin Gladysz's book on French trade guns.

But then I realized that once upon a time, I owned a double barrel shotgun, and having two locks never bothered me then. No matter which side a man shoots from, with a double, there's always going to be a lock inches away from his nose.

So I just admitted to reality, and bought a bog standard fusil de chasse parts set from Track of the Wolf. I've been shooting that right handed gun left handed now for nearly three years. And it doesn't seem to bother me at all.

The beauty of trade guns is that in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, they were all built to pattern, almost cookie-cutter like. It kept costs down. Then the hunter who had a trade gun adapted his shooting to the gun.

It will take a bit of practice getting used to a bit different loading technique. But after a few sessions at the range, you'll manage it.

FYI ...... The French Fusil de Chasse side plate can be used with either side and I know a guy that makes wonderful left hand serpent side plates for NW trade guns

 

[Rob M.]

I have been wanting to build one for a long time, there is just one part I can't find. Since I am a southpaw, it seems impossible to find a left hand side plate. is there even such a thing?

Jack Garner makes them . Here's a pic of a NW gun I made with his side plate

 

[Khufu]

Jack Garner makes them . Here's a pic of a NW gun I made with his side plate

do you have contact info, I have wanted a trade gun for years, but being a lefty made it really hard to build, I can use a L&R left hand Queen Ann lock, the barrel is ambi but that darn sideplate, I just could not find one.

 

[Rob M.]

do you have contact info, I have wanted a trade gun for years, but being a lefty made it really hard to build, I can use a L&R left hand Queen Ann lock, the barrel is ambi but that darn sideplate, I just could not find

 

[Rob M.]

do you have contact info, I have wanted a trade gun for years, but being a lefty made it really hard to build, I can use a L&R left hand Queen Ann lock, the barrel is ambi but that darn sideplate, I just could not find one.

Hi bud ....I'll post his Facebook info and you can get ahold of him that way . If you dont do FB get ahold of me again and I'll see if I can find his number in the gun shop ...