Pics of Flintlock engraving

[engravertom]

Greetings,

Just wanted to share two pics of some light engraving I did on a flintlock pistol several years ago.

This pistol was built for the then outgoing president of Old Salem. I was not working there at the time, having left a year or two before this pistol was built, but I occasionally did sub contract work for them.

The lock was from a kit, and the barrel was purchased also. The stock was hand made, carved, and the silver wire inlet by the stockmaker. The mountings are solid sterling silver, hand made by the director of Historic trades at the time. The trigger was hand made also.

I was commissioned to engrave it. These are the only two pics I have on the hard drive right now.

I used a hammer and chisel for this job. The trigger guard had the president's initials on it, and "Salem NC" was engraved on the barrel.

I haven't engraved many muzzle loaders recently. I'll have to go through my files. The first gun I ever engraved was a traditions flintlock, but no way I will show those pics! Even these look kinda rough to me now.

Thanks for looking!

Tom

 

[rabjr]

Welcome to the boards engravertom. :hatsoff:

Looks good to me! Wish I could do that. :thumbsup:

 

[RickD]

Well heck I`ll send you one of mine to practice on..What a guy huh

 

[PitchyPine]

Looks great :thumbsup:
:hmm:

 

Tom you do excellent work. :bow:

 

[Roy]

Very nice :thumbsup: Welcome to the Forum

 

[50cal.cliff]

Welcome to the forum! If thos oar rough I'd love to see what you are doing at this time! :wink:

 

[engravertom]

Thanks for the kind words, and warm welcome. I hope to have some more ML engraving in my future.

take care,

Tom

 

[Gunny69]

If you need more ML to engrave just let me know. I got a few pistols that would LOVE getting dressed up! :thumbsup:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

you sir do very good work and thanks for posting. no way do I have the patience to do that sort of work but I think I could put together a pistol. my first BP gun was a CVA Hawken pistol kit, I'll post sometime.