Giving new life to an old CVA Kentucky Pistol kit

[ronaldrothb49]

I have decided my next project will be giving a new life to this CVA Kentucky pistol kit. Another one I probably picked up at a blanket shoot many years ago. The lock will be disassembled and polished good, it has the adjustable tumbler so that is a plus and it sparks OK. There is a gap between the lock and the barrel and the bar on the sear is hitting wood plus some gaps on the lock inlet that will need some new wood. The touch hole is drilled at an angle through the excessively long breech plug out the face giving a much too long touch hole. Luckily it has a breech plug can be removed. It is over 3/4" long so I will cut it back to 1/2" which will allow me to put the touch hole in front of the breech. Someone wrapped a piece of brass and soldered it over the trigger bar. This prevents the lock from being cocked. Don't know how I'm going to fix that yet. Going to strip the finish and get rid of the excess wood. Will probably do a faux stripe on it since it is the last piece of plain wood that I have in stock. So far I have only had to add the lock screws, I know I had the original but can't find them. Going to see if I can complete this project without putting any more money into it.

 

[awreis]

If it's not hitting it much you could file it down to give you some clearance. Or heat it up to melt the solder and remove it.

 

[ChuckJonesWagon]

Maybe you can just hit the soldered on piece of brass with a torch and remove the solder and brass to get it back to "normal"?

 

[ronaldrothb49]

Maybe you can just hit the soldered on piece of brass with a torch and remove the solder and brass to get it back to "normal"?

If it's not hitting it much you could file it down to give you some clearance. Or heat it up to melt the solder and remove it.

It kind of looks like they filed too much off the trigger bar and then soldered that brass on which makes it way to high. Still got to look and think on this one.

 

[Trot]

You really shouldn't shorten the breechplug. If you do, you will leave 1/4" of threaded barrel exposed, this will be impossible to clean, leading to corrosion and safety issues. The breechplug must fit tight to the back of the bore leaving no exposed threaded area.

 

[kyron4]

Is that a CVA barrel ? CVAs use a patent breach and a two piece touch hole liner.

 

[ChuckJonesWagon]

It kind of looks like they filed too much off the trigger bar and then soldered that brass on which makes it way to high. Still got to look and think on this one.

Without a pic....just thinking out loud...... maybe you can just file off the excess brass to the correct diameter?

 

[ronaldrothb49]

You really shouldn't shorten the breechplug. If you do, you will leave 1/4" of threaded barrel exposed, this will be impossible to clean, leading to corrosion and safety issues. The breechplug must fit tight to the back of the bore leaving no exposed threaded area.

I intend to cut the barrel back also. My error that I didn't specify that.

 

[ronaldrothb49]

Is that a CVA barrel ? CVAs use a patent breach and a two piece touch hole liner.

This was a CVA kit probably late 70's early 80's. The flintlock iits back then didn't even have the touch hole drilled.

 

[11th corps]

Remember when you could buy those kits at k mart. Most of the ones I saw were percussion. Cool project.