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Rifles of Colonial America #28
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I too think Mitch did a super job recreating this rifle. But my favorite is the Lancaster he finished and posted a short time ago. I have a picture of it hanging up on the wall in my shop. It gives me inspiration and humbles my limited abilities at the same time! :bow:
longrifle78
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Thats one fine lookin gun. I havent worked much walnut, how is it to work with that much figure in it ?
Longrifle
American Walnut on a whole tends to be more difficult to work than maple.It tends to be chippy making it tougher to get clean inletting and carving.Like any wood there are good pieces and bad.This particular piece was a pretty good piece of stump cut so it had a lot of figure in the butt, but not so much in the forestock.For some reason the curly part worked much better than the plainer part in the forstock.
Mitch Yates
American Walnut on a whole tends to be more difficult to work than maple.It tends to be chippy making it tougher to get clean inletting and carving.Like any wood there are good pieces and bad.This particular piece was a pretty good piece of stump cut so it had a lot of figure in the butt, but not so much in the forestock.For some reason the curly part worked much better than the plainer part in the forstock.
Mitch Yates
