I laughed and laughed, this is a real gut buster!

[rootnuke]

I filed and sanded and polished my triggerguard for 6 hours for my 1770 Lancaster kit I got from TOW.

It was truly a labor of love.

I was so proud!

Last night I inlet my Davis double set trigger. The alignment I selected for trigger pull was wonderful. The set trigger worked really well.

Then I decided to take my triggerguard and just kinda hold it up to the stock and check how it looked up against the stock with the trigger inlet.....

what? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif then :: then :cry: then :curse: then ::

It seems the kit should of come with a "large" Bivins triggerguard instead of the regular because of the Davis double set trigger.

Moral to the story... check, double check and recheck....
grrrrrrrrr

I will order a "Large" Bivins triggerguard today and hang the 6 hours of LOVE over my bench as a friendly reminder.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I was so proud!

And proud you should be. I've been following your progress and I see myself in a lot of your messages. I figure a 'fancy' flinter would take me about 17 years to complete. :haha:

I once built a plywood & epoxy bateaux that was "buildable in one weekend" according to the plans. Took me six months (but it was lovely and is still being used 14 years later). I have spent two years building R/C aircraft that have lasted 20 minutes in the air. Things like that convinced me that, rather than buy a bunch of components and try and get them together I should seek out a gunsmith even older than myself :shocking: who has made the mistakes and buggered up enough pieces to have a handle on the process.

I applaud you :applause: and all the other self-taugh artists here who take the time and effort to keep the gunsmithing arts flourishing. My little New Englander was a 95% finished semi-kit and I enjoyed assembling it, but it is as plain vanilla as they come.

How many yards of scroll work must a man lay down, before he can carve a smooth "C"?

Yes, and how many many times must a ramrod channel be drilled, before the drill tip you see?

The answer, my friend, is . . . Well, I don't know, but I'm sure someone here on the "Bench" does. :haha:

 

[musketman]

I will order a "Large" Bivins triggerguard today and hang the 6 hours of LOVE over my bench as a friendly reminder.

I say, buy all the parts to make another gun using the 6 hours of LOVE triggerguard, why let it hang there without a gun attached to it... :winking:

 

[2thdoc]

Rootnuke, look on the bright side, for the next rifle you build use the small Davis triggers and you've already got the trigger guard finished! The web page you're doing on the construction of your rifle is great, keep it up. One small point though, what you're referring to as forge marks are actually seams from the mold and the remnants of the sprues from the brass casting process. I've made mistakes on all three of the rifles I've built, but have always found a way to work around them. That's part of the game, I guess, until one's built enough of them to become really proficient at it. If you're like me, once you finish this rifle, no amount of money will make you want to part with it.

 

[roundball]

Yeah...I can just see me laughing and laughing...if it was me, the trigger guard wiuld be imbedded in the ceiling or something!!!!

Which is why I've come to accept what I do well and what I don't do well...hats off to those who have the skills & patience to build beautiful rifles...the bad news is that not only can I not build them, I can't afford to pay someone who does...so TC Hawken flintlocks will have to do.

(although I keep going back to look at the Issac Haines featured on TOW) ::