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Looking at guns built on this forum we have a load of master who make works of art
I ain’t one of them. I can take a thousand dollars worth of parts and turn it into a five hundred dollar gun
Magic
But
I got far more then five hundred dollars of fun out of building it
As said it’s addictive
And while my girls aren’t the prettiest at the ball, that shoot well, make smoke and make me smile
It’s the journey not the destination
 
From the looks of the instructions, the stock, and the bag of small parts, it's a CVA Kentucky pistol kit. But the barrel and breech plug are not CVA and it'd be too much work trying to make that barrel and plug work for your situation. Source a CVA pistol barrel with breech plug installed and a lock from eBay and/or Deer Creek. Good luck with your project; you'll have fun!
 
Howdy romoshka, I may be crazy as a pet **** and blind as a bat, but in looking at the photo you posted in post #4 above, it sure looks to me like there is a percussion lock, a trigger guard and a bag of misc. parts inside a metal candy box just above the stock. Are these parts for something else? If not, and I could be wrong, but you may already have all the parts you need! I hope this is the case! Let us know, sir.
 
Track of the Wolf used to sell hard copy printed catalogs. Photos were life sized. Xerox a picture of lock close to length and width and general contour dimensions on your lock mortise. Carefully glue to cardboard and trim. See if the cardboard template fits into your lock inlet (mortise). While on their web site, check out list of books aimed at basic gunsmithing for muzzle loaders. Good luck on your projects.
 
Track of the Wolf used to sell hard copy printed catalogs. Photos were life sized. Xerox a picture of lock close to length and width and general contour dimensions on your lock mortise. Carefully glue to cardboard and trim. See if the cardboard template fits into your lock inlet (mortise). While on their web site, check out list of books aimed at basic gunsmithing for muzzle loaders. Good luck on your projects.
You can print items on the current TOW website to see how items like a lock may fit. You just have to set your printer to print the item ‘full size’, NOT ‘fit to paper size’.
 
Looking at guns built on this forum we have a load of master who make works of art
I ain’t one of them. I can take a thousand dollars worth of parts and turn it into a five hundred dollar gun
Magic
But
I got far more then five hundred dollars of fun out of building it
As said it’s addictive
And while my girls aren’t the prettiest at the ball, that shoot well, make smoke and make me smile
It’s the journey not the destination
Bingo. And all our BP Heirs will be happy to have it.
 
Just for support for you. My first scratch built gun had a 46 inch swamped Getz barrel. Blank stock and L - R classic lock. No instructions an no other parts what's so ever. Just a picture on the cover of Muzzle Blasts. You can do this...!
 
I say go for it….
where you buying these $65 locks?….L&Rs are $153 from them directly (bought 1 last week) and flinters are $225.
Davis, Chambers and Kiblers are $300…Deer Creek may have some Spanish Jukar thing for $65

I have several great shooting in-line CVA Kodiaks from Gunbroker that didn’t cost $153….go for it …education isn’t cheap.
 
Howdy romoshka, I may be crazy as a pet **** and blind as a bat, but in looking at the photo you posted in post #4 above, it sure looks to me like there is a percussion lock, a trigger guard and a bag of misc. parts inside a metal candy box just above the stock. Are these parts for something else? If not, and I could be wrong, but you may already have all the parts you need! I hope this is the case! Let us know, sir.
Yes sir, those parts are there. The lock is for a complete KY rifle kit also inherited from my father. That kit is complete and still in the original box. I pulled the lock to see if it would fit this pistol but for reference only annd it will be returned to that box. And the photo was incomplete on my part as I do have the trigger guard, nose cap and ram rod thimbles. Ram rod tips and all fasteners are absent. I can make the screws once I determine the thread. The 2 nose cap screws as depicted in the exploded diagram appear to be machine screws and so would have to thread into blind holes on the underside of the barrel? Yes? Since the barrel is a blank all machine work will be required. If I can acquire some dimensions I can turn a drum and the drill and tap the barrel to accept it. So I’m still in seek (data) and search (parts-mainly just a lock but it appears Deer Creek has one). This is going to be fun than building the motorcycle we took to bonneville.
 
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