After twelve months, my first (maybe only)wheellock is finished!
Stats:
European walnut stock blank from Dunlap.
Assembled unpolished wheel lock from The Rifle Shoppe. Original cast-in engraving on main lock plate was draw-filed flat and re-engraved with my own design.
Barrel is a 31" .58 caliber Rice swamped barrel from Track of the Wolf.
Double set triggers(internally modified to strike backward instead of up) from Track of the Wolf.
Sights are modified castings from Track.
Ramrod pipes are castings from Track.
Trigger guard, buttplate, nosecap, and sideplate are hand-cut, hand-shaped from sheet steel from the local hardware store.
Stained and finished with Laurel Mountain Forge stains (mixed Lancaster maple, cherry, and walnut), then LMF Permalyn sealer and gunstock finish, hand rubbed, followed with Johnson's paste wax.
Design was inspired by the work of several pieces by Elias Schintzel, who worked in the Berlin/Brandenburg area from the late 1600's to the early 1700's. Details came largely from photographs of four Schintzel rifles in George Shumway's book, Jaeger Rifles, George Shumway Publisher, NY, 2003.
Haven't shot it yet, but it seems to spark reasonably well with cube crystal pyrite, so I'm hopeful.
Now on to my next project! (Don't know what yet.)
Cheers to all,
Hemo
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Stats:
European walnut stock blank from Dunlap.
Assembled unpolished wheel lock from The Rifle Shoppe. Original cast-in engraving on main lock plate was draw-filed flat and re-engraved with my own design.
Barrel is a 31" .58 caliber Rice swamped barrel from Track of the Wolf.
Double set triggers(internally modified to strike backward instead of up) from Track of the Wolf.
Sights are modified castings from Track.
Ramrod pipes are castings from Track.
Trigger guard, buttplate, nosecap, and sideplate are hand-cut, hand-shaped from sheet steel from the local hardware store.
Stained and finished with Laurel Mountain Forge stains (mixed Lancaster maple, cherry, and walnut), then LMF Permalyn sealer and gunstock finish, hand rubbed, followed with Johnson's paste wax.
Design was inspired by the work of several pieces by Elias Schintzel, who worked in the Berlin/Brandenburg area from the late 1600's to the early 1700's. Details came largely from photographs of four Schintzel rifles in George Shumway's book, Jaeger Rifles, George Shumway Publisher, NY, 2003.
Haven't shot it yet, but it seems to spark reasonably well with cube crystal pyrite, so I'm hopeful.
Now on to my next project! (Don't know what yet.)
Cheers to all,
Hemo
