Half Stock 20 ga Fowler

[Big Bubba]

This is the start of my second flintlock from a blank. Made the hooked breech tang from a piece of angle iron, since I could find one available like I wanted. This was the worst part, lots of filing. Barrel is inlet and the under rib, thimbles and sight soldered on, and the ramrod hole drilled. Put some cold blue paste on, so I could see any excess solder that needed sanding off. Not sure how you keep solder on a round barrel from going everywhere, but it came off fairly easy.

 

[ohio ramrod]

Looks good

 

[Robby]

What style will it be Bubba? Looking forward to seeing it progress!!!!
Robby

 

[rich pierce]

Nice job on the breech! Keep it coming and let us know what lock and barrel you’re using and so on.

 

[Big Bubba]

It's a 38" Octagon to round Rice barrel and I will be using a Chambers Late Ketland lock.

 

[Nobade]

Looks nice! For solder, I try to limit where the flux gets to then get the excess off with sandpaper and right up against the feature I'll use a graver to cut it away so it doesn't show.

 

[Loja man]

Looks like you have a nice piece of wood there!

 

[Big Bubba]

All the major parts are inlet. Had to modify a trigger guard by cutting off the front finial on an English trigger guard and adding a 1/4-28 stud to attach it to my trigger plate. A lot more shaping, filing and sanding to go.

and adding a 1/4-28 stud to attach it to my trigger plate. A lot more shaping, filing and sanding to go.

 

[hanshi]

Honestly, I think you pretty much have that dude nailed.

 

[Big Bubba]

Got most of the metal work finished and browned. Still have to polish the lock up. Pretty happy how the barrel came out. Sanded down to 600 grit and browned with Dangler's browning solution. Came out a nice redish brown almost translucent looking. I tried taking a picture, but it just doesn't show up good. I followed Dave's method on the stock; died with black and sanded off, died yellow and sanded ( did this several times raising the grain) and left a final coat on. Then died with a very diluted coat of LMF Cherry stain. I have been applying Chambers Finish. May need one more coat. Will see after it cures. I am really happy with the color.

 

[D.Summers]

That wood is super sweet!!

 

[sb 54 cal.]

Very very very nice

 

[Robby]

I like the Homer Dangler solution, if I'm browning that's the only thing I use.
Robby

 

[smoothshooter]

This is the start of my second flintlock from a blank. Made the hooked breech tang from a piece of angle iron, since I could find one available like I wanted. This was the worst part, lots of filing. Barrel is inlet and the under rib, thimbles and sight soldered on, and the ramrod hole drilled. Put some cold blue paste on, so I could see any excess solder that needed sanding off. Not sure how you keep solder on a round barrel from going everywhere, but it came off fairly easy.View attachment 126767View attachment 126768View attachment 126769View attachment 126770

Full-length profile photo?

 

[Big Bubba]

Got it all put together. Plan to add some checkering on the wrist, depending on how my practice piece goes. Plus I want to let the finish cure for a few weeks. Hopefully I'll have some better pictures then. (The pictures got rotated when I posted them and not sure how to fix that.)

 

[Billy Boy]

There are solder sticks available. The are a waxy kind of chalk and used to limit the ‘travel’ of solder. They work fine. I bought some from Brownells,
wow, many years ago now I guess. They should be findable on the net.

 

[bud in pa]

I remember reading something about using a lead pencil to keep the solder from going where you don't want it to go.