Light Fowler

[kmeyer]

Just curious if anyone has done a real light finished Fowler? If so, please post a pic. Also, would that not be considered pc? Just curious. I was thinking of doing a real light maple almost Blonde. Thanks all.

 

[bob1961]

here's a link to look at to see if this is what ya want....it shows a finished rifle in the color ya want and i think it covers how to also........bob

building a muzzleloader from a kit.......

 

[kmeyer]

Thanks Bob for the post. Here's another link of a rifle at "custom muzzleaders". This also is a rifle though. I'm thinking about a fowler. I will look for a good piece of maple with strong stripping.

http://www.geocities.com/birddogsix/buckscounty.html

 

[44-henry]

If you like light colored maple go with it, also, don't think for a minute just because it is not a standard finish today that it wasn't used in the old days. In fact, many knowledgable folks have concluded that many early American firearms were never actually stained, many might have just been used after the rough scraping was accomplished. Over time they have developed a dark patina, but that doesn't mean they started out life that way. Even if they were given a finish, a lot of time it might not have ammounted to much more than an acid stain and a beeswax rub. If the acid was weak, or had other elements disolved in it it could have produced a lighter shade. It pays to remember that today we do this hobby as just that, a hobby, but remember that the people we try to emulate were doing this to earn a living. A sound stock, lock and barrel was the gun, the rest of it within reason was just icing on the cake and not too many people could afford all the nicities that we today take for granted. One thing you can be sure of, today's crop of rifles turned out by modern day gunsmiths probably would be the envy of most of our counterparts 200 years ago.

 

[bob1961]

i have a T/C restocked with a g4 maple from pecatonica river....and it's like the color ya might be looking fer also don't know if ya seen it....i'll have to go and look at the stain i used if ya need to know............bob

 

[kmeyer]

Thats really nice bob1961. It is the kinda look I am thinking about, except in a smoothbore fowler. All the fowler's I've seen have been dark stained. I think I am going to buck the trend for something different.

 

[Donny]

I have seen original flinters in a museum with light honey colored maple stocks. The stripes were very dark, but the rest was light. How did they do that?? :hmm:Usually, to stain to get a light color stock, the stripes are not very dark.. :hmm:

 

[bob1961]

ya might try to make yer own stain....i made some that came out the color i think yer looking fer....by using vineger and brass....here's what it looks like it's number 1..........bob

 

[Donny]

I like #4 best, dark stripe, kinda light reddish... ::

 

[kmeyer]

WOW...I like'em all. I wonder if my wife would let me build one of each