Christian Spring riffle...

[kaintuck]

sights on..............

fattie kat helped.........never still!

working on the PB latch now......then the nose cap.................. ;D

marc n tomtom

 

[faste350]

i'm in the middle of building the same gun right now. at a stands still til i get the barrel, been waiting for 2 months for it. yours is looking real good! keep the pictures coming.

 

[Vaino]

Hi Marc...moving right along and it's looking good. Have one question, though.....the transition alongside the tang to the sideplate and lock panels... is that how that style of LR does it? Thought it should be angled down, but w/ a flat surface? Pictured below is how I would visualize it, but I may be wrong.....Fred

 

[kaintuck]

Fred, I know.....that area has been shown with different angles/relief carving and straight, and some slightly dished.

I want Ken and Allen to chime in....I was trying to stay off the barrel flat somewhat, but remove enough wood to get the "fat" outta that area.....

I am thinking we're done there.....

The next hurdle is the forearm cross section from RR entry to nose cap.....V or U ?.... :idunno:
Seen both.....and I plan to use only a double line along the RR channel.....I am trying to state "simplicity" with German/ swed/hunting working mans rifle......not after a "mini skirt in high heels" here But not a big ol barefooted Amish girl cleaning out the barn either... :rotf: :hmm:

I like beauty in simplicity.........don't care for those fancy super carved/engraved jagers.......

Marc n tomtom

 

[MSW]

as always, your work looks really nice. I'd go with a "U," but that's just free advice and probably worth the asking price.

 

[kaintuck]

A "U" is what she is now.......I'm just still thinking.... :hmm:

I broke my door closure spring and had to order another.....when you have spring mat'l, and need to bend it slightly....can I heat it cherry red, bend it, then put in a tin of motor oil, light the oil and let it burn off?? Making the spring good again?

Marc n tomtom

 

[Grizzly Adams]

After quenching, remove the remaining scale on the spring until you have bare metal. Then carefully heat it until it turns dark blue. That's how Wallace Gusler did it in the Gunsmith of Williamsburg, and it's how I temper springs. :thumbsup:

 

[faste350]

i'm thinking on the same lines as you marc' on the gun i'm building. i want it to be nice, but not over the top. just a gun that the average man would have had built and maybe a small touch of extras, just a nice functional rifle.

 

[Eterry]

Marc, dang that's looking good...I'm not as far along as I thought I was after looking at your pics.
On my early Lancaster I'm going for clean lines, light weight, with some scroll work but not much brass embellishment either.
I had to take a week off, my friend's black powder club had a hammer gun trap shoot this weekend, (black powder loads only I think), so he spent all week trimming paper hulls for his Remington hammer gun with 2 5/8" chambers.
Hopefully we can crank up tomorrow and make some more sawdust.

Eterry

 

[kaintuck]

:grin: thank you!
I stop ever so often, and hang them up......take a day off from working on them....then just sitting around with them, I take a pencil and Mark area that need more wood removed, scraped or sanded etc.....early morning light is excellent for this!
And when I cannot find anymore places,carving time...... then I when know I'm done....time to stain seal, finish......and brown/age everything.....

I will need to make my RR soon....that's fun, I like making the end kinda a bulb with a taper to the other end...

This is just a nice hobby......
Marc n tomtom