Hi all.. first off I'm new here, and I would like to say thanks for the welcome 
I just finished a rifle for my wife to shoot at the rendezvous this year, I had bought a CVA 50 youth hunter at a pawn shop 5 years ago to see if we would like shooting them....well we did since then I bought two TCs one renegade 50 cap lock, and a Hawken 50 flint. The CVA was not allowed at rondys though, it had some plastic & rubber parts with an ugly Burch stock and it just sat in the corner of my closet all this time. My wife cant handle the heavy TCs... so I thought lets get some life out of the CVA, I got a few parts off the gun... the barrel, cap-lock, the tips off the ramrod, the wedge pin and plates and tang. I then won an unfinished Maple frontier stock, butt plate, jukar trigger plate and trigger, and nose cap.
I then forged a trigger out of some 1/8" mild steel and replaced the brass one in the trigger plate, I had a casting off an old rifle of a trigger guard, made a hickory ramrod from some flooring boards I have laying around, made the rod guides from some heavy bronze tubing, and the guide posts from 1/4' square cold rolled steel. I filled the original rod guide dovetail.
After all the fitting, shaping and sanding I stained the stock with Mahogany gel stain and sealed it with clear shellac then steel wooled to a satin finish. I then solderd the gides and posts to the barrel and reblued. Anyway heres some pics of what it turned into.
Darrel/cutshurt
I just finished a rifle for my wife to shoot at the rendezvous this year, I had bought a CVA 50 youth hunter at a pawn shop 5 years ago to see if we would like shooting them....well we did
since then I bought two TCs one renegade 50 cap lock, and a Hawken 50 flint. The CVA was not allowed at rondys though, it had some plastic & rubber parts with an ugly Burch stock and it just sat in the corner of my closet all this time. My wife cant handle the heavy TCs... so I thought lets get some life out of the CVA, I got a few parts off the gun... the barrel, cap-lock, the tips off the ramrod, the wedge pin and plates and tang. I then won an unfinished Maple frontier stock, butt plate, jukar trigger plate and trigger, and nose cap.I then forged a trigger out of some 1/8" mild steel and replaced the brass one in the trigger plate, I had a casting off an old rifle of a trigger guard, made a hickory ramrod from some flooring boards I have laying around, made the rod guides from some heavy bronze tubing, and the guide posts from 1/4' square cold rolled steel. I filled the original rod guide dovetail.
After all the fitting, shaping and sanding I stained the stock with Mahogany gel stain and sealed it with clear shellac then steel wooled to a satin finish. I then solderd the gides and posts to the barrel and reblued. Anyway heres some pics of what it turned into.
Darrel/cutshurt
