Future builds?

[Vaino]

Below is a pic of my last and probably final builds which I've committed to do { 80 yrs old} and of which my wife thinks I'm overly optimistic or just plain "nuts". Of the 3 bottom jobs, the upper is a LH Haines for a customer and is 80%, the 2nd from the bottom will be a another Haines but RHed and the bottom blank will be a Bucks County which is my favorite build. What do you other builders have in store and what styles are your favorites? My builds are mainly from blanks because once the bbl and RR grooves and holes have been done by contractors and the blank then is run throuh the bandsaw, not much remains to make it roughly "look" like a LR. This also eliminates the problems w/ precarves. Granted a good precarve establishes good architecture which is a "hurdle" for many , so...precarves are suitable and advantagous to many inexperienced builders.So... what do you guys want to build or prefer to build?....Fred

 

[VTdeerhunter]

Flehto....I love the way you have your projects organized, my problem is that I have too many going at the same time and it seems like none of them ever get done... ..I'm working on an Isaac Haines style .50 cal with a 44" barrel right now, also started on a mini-version in .32 cal...this one has super pretty wood, can't wait to see it finished...hope to get both of these in the woods this year, but I gotta hurry..

 

[Robby]

Buck's county
Vincent half stock, flint
Hudson Valley fowler
Tennessee Mountain rifle, part two
Christian Beck
Blanks from a Sugar Maple I had milled up, better than average figure. I do my own drilling, but have been using a band saw to rough to shape lately. I love my band saw! :grin:
Robby

 

[mikemeteor]

Just started another TN mountain, 42" .40cal. A-wt GM.
Then jumpin' to something new for me: a .660 fowler with a Dunlap blank and Colerain 44" OTR.
Plannin' on doing my own barrel and RR inlet on the fowler.... Of course... plans can change.
/mike m

p.s. I'd hate to see ya hang up your chisels, Fred, I always enjoy seeing your work!

 

[kaintuck]

I like any of the rifles from 1770 to 1830's~Kendigs book makes me wanna buildbuildbuild.....but the $$$ keeps me from doing any~the two I have now under construction are commisioned ones~ :grin:
I DO have a small Lancaster walnut stock ready for a 46" B weight barrel~ :surrender:
I would like to have this one someday into a iron mounted poor boy....ageing everything to look old~
i also have 3 cherry and 4 walnut stock blanks ready SOMEday for me to make something outta of :grin:

 

[Bruce Bogart]

I've got enough to do 4 Bucks County rifles an 1 iron furnitured "mountain" rifle. Oh yea and 2 Vincents about 2/3s finished. But I'm not 80 yet. If I get there I may have a couple of these projects completed
Build on Fred build on!!!!! :bow:

 

[Vaino]

Actually I was building 2 simultaneously...the fourth from the bottom is a recently completed Bucks County which was the project just ahead of the LH Haines. Formerly did the bbl and RR work...not lately...too easy to send them out. The 3 bottom jobs are red maple from Dunlaps and his wood is very hard and dense and he's my only blank supplier now. Haven't built a LR w/ any bbl shorter than 44" for some time now and only buy from Rice. Chambers supplies all the locks. Looks like you guys will be busy for awhile.....Fred

 

[asbrown]

Well lets see. I have a .69 horse pistol in the works (cherry stock and parts reclaimed from a poorly done kit), a .54 smoothie with 48" oct/rd Burton barrel (all iron mounted poorboy)still in the parts collection phase, a 12 bore carriage pistol and a Cooper Lock underhammer rifle in the design stage. I average about 3 guns every 2 years in what little spare time my job, wife, and 2 boys allow.

 

[Bill Hall]

One halfstock percussion Hawken about half finished now. Next may be a fullstock flint Hawken. I may build a couple of them to sell. Then it's on to an English sporting rifle, I'll use an old antique as a guide. Then I plan to build one of those long skinny Eastern style flintlocks, so I'll be asking lots of questions about that one.

I also build from blanks, cheaper that way. Bill

 

[Keb]

I have a stripy maple, .40cal. x 42" x "A" profile barrel, L&R Classic flintlock, brass parts(some Bivins stuff), sliding box door gun I started it around 1994 maybe. It's been buttoned up in the white since 1996 leaning in a closet until 2009. I get it out every now & then and scrape some more wood off of it. The scrapings make good tender. I'm hoping to finish it this year but I said that in 2010 & 2011. I've started & finished 6 guns this year but I just can't get going on this one. :/ I also have a walnut .62cal. in the works. That's prolly all I'm ever gonna make this year. Who knows about next year. I may be too crippled up to swing a mallet by then.

EDIT: I forgot about Reno's pistol. I don't know if this counts but I'm guiding an 18 year old (Reno) with his 1st build. It's a .50cal. maple, small siler flinter. It's buttoned up & in the white now. I got the parts for doing a little work on a couple guns and am gifting them to him.

"It's all about the money, Reno."

 

[GANGGREEN]

Only one for me. This will be my third build and I keep telling myself that when I finish it, I'll be mostly satisfied and not in a big hurry to start another. Anyway, it's a 20 guage Pennsylvania fowler done with a jug choked Colerain barrel and plain piece of hard maple.

 

[Paul R]

Mine is the 3rd of a series of fantasy rifles. .58 Rice,TOW yeager style barrel, Chambers Late Ketland lock, Davis dbl. set trigger. Stock will be my own thumbhole fullstock design I'm still fine tuning, cut from a fancy maple plank from my lumber wholesaler's 'tickle trunk'.
I have another of the same barrel that hasn't been designated for a build and I'm still looking for the right shotgun barrel to build into a flinter.

Paul

 

[Capt. Fred]

Fun thread Fred. I'm with MM on this- Don't plan on hanging up your chisels quite yet, I've got some more ideas for details of yours I'd like to steal!

I am currently working on a rifle for my wife. 38" octagon to round on one of Dave Keck's small Lancaster patterns. The architecture of this pattern doesn't really seem "Lancasterish" to me but I am running with some Haines details on the carving etc. I'll just call it a contemporary when done.

Then I am doing an early gun from Dave's Marshall pattern.

After that, I am not sure. Maybe a Stith Hawken or some sort of a fowler, I can't make up my mind on which parts to be gathering.

 

[bnail]

sorry to hear that fred. I was just oggling one of your rifles that Track was using as an illustration.
I would DEARLY love to build a Klette Rifle with Iron furniture, I love that style!
But saddly, that's biting off more than I can chew :shake:

 

[Mike Brooks]

Working on two guns at the moment. A french .62 rifle. and NE #9 in Grinslades book. After those A .32 Tenn rifle then a nifty French fusil de trait which I'm chomping at the bit to get to.

 

[rabjr]

French fusil de trait

Oooohhhh....

I'm pretty much done with long guns at this point but I do lust for a Contract Fusil de Chasse...I may havta get lock castings from TRS someday...

 

[Mike Brooks]

You are so addicted Swampy. :haha:

 

[Capt. Jas.]

I am presently working on a stick built rifle in .58 that is to be somewhat of a Virginia made gun that utilized the lock and hardware off of a mid-18th century English fowling piece that got busted and blown. Making or casting most of the hardware Stocking in maple with fowling gun profile. It' s really to be a hunting gun for someone but I like a story and prefer fowling pieces so this is what I have come up with.

Also working sporadically on a holster pistol based on a set by Heylin c.1760. So far, most of the hours have been with the file on hand forming the correct barrel profile and putting in the blank.

 

[Longsmoke]

Just finishing a 20ga. smooth rifle for a buddy. It needs front sight work and shot a bunch. Half way though a iron mounted 44" .40 smooth rifle for another buddy. Got a neat little oct. to round 7" .45 smooth pistol about 1/2 done. After that I'm going to do something I haven't done in a long time. I'll not be typing the word "smooth" for a while. 46" Rice .50 rifled mounted in #10 brass from Reeves, already have 2 stocks with barrels inlet. I too got a hankering to build a FDC, 48" 28ga. with forged mounts. Also been looking at a type G, pictured on page 31 in Grinslade's fowler book, with good specs from Hamilton's book. Also on the list of things to do is a match set of pistols, a .40 for my nephew and a .55 for me, both smooth and scaled to bore size but otherwise the same.

 

[MSW]

well, in order to 'maintain domestic tranquility,' i've had to promise to lay off the gunbuilding deal for a while ... that should last about six months, i should think, then i'll get almost caught up on the honey-dew list, and i'll probably break loose some bucks and try my hand at a New England Fowler.

that's my story and i'm sticking to it.