Has your tastes changed.

[Crow#21957]

I've changed my liking to the furniture and barrel being in the white but lightly pained.
I use to be an all brown metal person but have change. How about your liking not just metal but anything.

 

[HSmithTX]

Yes for sure my tastes have changed as I have learned about the different schools and periods, etc. I was completely opposed to brass furnishings when I started looking at flintlocks but my next build will likely be brass furnished because it is appropriate for the rifle I want to build. I didn't care for the stock shape on some schools, until I saw it done very well. Things like that. I still don't like the pre-beat to heck and rusted up 'antique' finish some people like on a new rifle, but I don't write their checks so it's all good.

 

[duca]

Yep, change! I used to like shiny and new.. now I like using and abused!

 

[TDM]

Yes, my taste have changed. As I learn more about the history of a particular style I have more appreciation for the different finishes and furniture.

 

[ord sgt]

Variety is what this game is all about. I usually brown my barrels on my builds. I did one with a barrel done with a grey finish. Then again, I have a factory build that has a bright steel finish. It all depends on which way the wind is blowing.

 

[Crow#21957]

That's good to see others the same.H
Smith TX I was the same a
Bout brass but it has grown on me. I like silver and brass mixed too. The period of the gunbis starting to interest me more and more.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

I have always antiqued everything. Even myself.

 

[tenngun]

I've changed my liking to the furniture and barrel being in the white but lightly pained.
I use to be an all brown metal person but have change. How about your liking not just metal but anything.

White looks good, and I have several guns with it. I love brown, to my eye it’s the most beautiful, but like tiger strip on a NWG there are places where most pretty is out of place

 

[Crow#21957]

Yes Tenngun there are place or guns where
Pretty is out of place.

 

[NeilMacleod]

Nope, Always liked Rustic period looks.

 

[oldwood]

I've built some fancy rifles , but the older I get , the more utilitarian I am going. I just like em to go bang , and hit where I aim. It's all the best fun for me. I still remember , back in the 1970 , how bad I wanted a long rifle , but couldn't afford one. Still don't care for fancy , and am not a collector of antiquity....oldwood

 

[COTNTOP]

I want to try and black the brass on one of my rifles. Been reading about it just got to get the go in me.

 

[alcessapiens]

I like everything. I prefer iron mounted, browned longrifles. But… I recently bought at an estate auction a jezzail that is inlaid muzzle to butt with silver and, what appears to be ivory. The lock is French and nicely engraved (although it doesn’t match the silver engraving) and it’s.635 across flats .652 at grooves. Came with an unmarked but correctly sized RB/ conical two cavity modern iron mold. It’s currently being magnafluxed to insure the barrel is safe (it looks dark but very crisp). Fancy sort of gun that was a wall hanger but which will be fired (regularly if it’s as good as it seems). Never thought I’d like something this over decorated ( the flintlock version of a pimpmobile).

 

[TDM]

Give it a go, you can always strip it, or polish it off if you don't like.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

My taste in era's has changed, I'm going further back in time the busier life gets.

 

[Jedidiah]

You have already "modified" the rifle changing the tang. The value is only what someone is willing to pay you and that is relative. Not all firearms appreciate, like it or not. Open up the pan a bit, if it makes you feel better, but basically,the flash hole is fine just where it is. It is ridiculous to start "chopping" up this thing until you have actually tried to fire it, IMHO. There is a 99% chance that it will work fine!

 

[hanshi]

I used to like brass mounts on everything, but that has changed. I like iron mounts on ANY SMR. I blackened the brass on one rifle because it clashed with the stock color. I also now like jaegers much, much more than earlier in my career.

 

[springfield art]

As I mentioned recently, I used to love the Lancasters, but became aware of the York County's when friends moved to there along Rt. 30. Not far from Cabin Creek Muzzleloading, BTW! Given a choice, I'd go Yorkie now!