Which side plate

[Crow#21957]

On a SMR which side plate would be most PC and which is your preference?
Thanks

 

[tenngun]

Looking at originals you have lots of choices. The t was popular some times big. Iron Lancaster style was seen, simple tear drop washers were known. Some times a coin or a defaced coin, and none at all

 

[reddogge]

For most of mine, I did an elongated oval but for the last one, I did an inverted half moon. I saw that on an original.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Refer to originals. They are actually very school specific. Several things they all had in common are cheap English hardware store locks, set triggers, and "usually" hand forged iron mounts. But the mounts were very school specific, and, in some areas, even brass mounts weren't unheard of.
Stocks were walnut or curly maple and rarely cherry.
If you're not reproducing a rifle from a specific area and just doing a generic "SMR", anything goes. Generic SMR's are the norm today, nobody seems to crack open a book anymore.
Buy Jerry Noble's 4 volumes on Appalachia rifles.

 

[dave_person]

Generic SMR's are the norm today, nobody seems to crack open a book anymore.

Amen.

dave

 

[Crow#21957]

Seems that's how it is with about anything not just muzzeloaders. I will see if I can locate that book . Thanks
Reddogge I went with the to picture. That's what came with my parts. My biggest thing is the lock panels. That's the hardest for me and I'm not real sure on how they should be shaped. I like the looks if how I do them but have gotten several comments that they are not correct.

 

[nchawkeye]

I have several books, do you have a specific area and time period?

 

[Rebel bull]

who cares...... why do you want something that every body else has. just make one that pleases you PC no such thing just because it hasn't been seen on a what ever dated gun doesn't mean that some one couldn't have thought of it and made it. case in point drawings on powder horns why do they all have to look like a 3 year old drew them? but the map horns are incredibly accurate? Audubon's drawings are incredibly lifelike so a horn that has a etching like that isn't period correct? Just saying

 

[Conquerordie]

Nevermind

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

who cares...... why do you want something that every body else has. just make one that pleases you PC no such thing just because it hasn't been seen on a what ever dated gun doesn't mean that some one couldn't have thought of it and made it. case in point drawings on powder horns why do they all have to look like a 3 year old drew them? but the map horns are incredibly accurate? Audubon's drawings are incredibly lifelike so a horn that has a etching like that isn't period correct? Just saying

Complete fantasy world.

 

[Pete G]

It takes just as much time to get it wrong as it does to get it right, so do it right to begin with .