THE BUILDER'S THREAD: If it loads from the front or burns BP, POST IT HERE

[B_noser]

Edited to restore photos
This was is my last build - recently finished.
It is in the Early Lancaster style (roughly 1760-1785) and was built from one of Jim Chambers kits.
The barrel is a swamped 44" Getz in 50 cal with a coned muzzle.
The lock is a chambers.
The maple stock was finished with aquafortis and boiled linseed oil.
The finish on the barrel is slow rust browning.
This was my first attempt at carving, so please be kind








Now, I have shown you mine; let's see yours

 

[Evanguy]

Im very excited about this thread. I have a few builds on the go that ill have to post once i finish them a bit more.

What about breach loaders but burn black powder, and a lot of it.

 

[B_noser]

Hi Evan,
As the title says "or burns BP"
I, for one, would love to see some breechloaders!

 

[Londonshooter]

Beauty, B_noser. Heck of a piece of maple too. Spectacular.

 

[rwnblack]

Here is my latest build in 32-40. 35 lb barrel, bone wood charcoal casehardened Swedish rolling block, Treebone stock, Danish oil finish, nitre blued small parts.

 

[B_noser]

Well, rwnblack another gorgeous rifle. I never cease to be impressed by your work.
Not exactly what I would call a brush gun. More of a ........ tack driver.

 

[rwnblack]

Thanks. Here is a Swedish Rolling Block I built into a Creedmore with a barrel Dale Freisen rifled in 40-70 Sharps bottle neck.the walnut was a piece I found at a local wood working store. I casehardended the action with wood bone charcoal, barrel blued with Belgium blue rust bluing. True oil finish.

 

[B_noser]

Man, that is one gorgeous piece of crotch walnut! The rest of the rifle speaks for itself +++.

 

[vagrantviking]

Those are some beautiful rifles! I'm liking this thread.

rwnblack, I didn't think anyone was into the big bench guns these days. Been years since I've seen any on the line. I've got a call Swedish rollers to build one of these days and hope they turn out half as nice as these!

 

[tula]

That big barreled brutes a beauty. I had one in .577 snider, with a massive hand bored and hand rifled barrel by an old fella in Aylsford Nova Scotia, last name was Taylor if I remember right. I went to visit him one time. His boring and rifling machine he built off the plans from the Williamsburg gunshop. I wish I’d taken pictures. Even did his own cast brass hardware.

 

[rwnblack]

She's a biggie but not the biggest I have worked on. Here is a 4 bore wall gun I helped a buddy build. It was a kit from the rifle shoppe, the wheels from an amish maker and the frame is white oak. Shoots 1/4 lb ball under 360 gr black.

 

[rwnblack]

Here is a ballard #4 I built over the last couple of months in evevenings and weekends. My buddy found the rusty marked up frame, solid forged not cast in a batch with a couple of chopped 32 cal rimfire barrels and a rathher rough Brown Ballard. I cleaned up the action Tig welded some me of the deeper marks and pits. The block from my Pacific fits perfectly so I will use that between the two guns for now until I build another block. The barrel is made in 3 pieces, a TJ 38-55 linner in a 1:14 twist, 1/2x1" DOM tube + 3/4x1 1/4" DOM tube for the octagon bit. The buttplate is from Track of the Wolf, the wood I picked up from Windsor Plywood and a Ballard was the biggest I could cut out of the one end where there was a big knot and crack. I used Mark Lee Express blue, and 2:1 wood bone charcoal for casehardening. Unfortunately I dropped the box with the action and sheilds still mostly in the box (I hit the box too hard and didn't hold the tongs enough!) so colors are not as contrasting and it got a bit scratched when I dug the bunch out. The stock finish is a combination of true oil, Danish oil worked down in between with 1000 grit and still needs a few more coats.

 

[rwnblack]

More pics of the Ballard project.

 

[rwnblack]

 

[B_noser]

She's a beaut! I love that lively piece of walnut.
Thanks for the pic of your kiln. Perhaps you could put together a post in it sometime.

 

[1oldfart]

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very nice. Just wondering if you have any eyebrows left.

 

[rwnblack]

I have learned to wear a cap and a grinding Sheild, big bushy beards are only temporary rat least the ends are....

 

[NorthCoastBigBore]

Some great work you do there rwnblack.

NCBB

 

[Win 38-55]

rwnblack, your work is absolutely beautiful. It is a pleasure to see what you have done. Thank you for posting.

 

[TommyGunWop]

do you have a contact for the wheels im searching for wheels for my cannon build
PM if you can
thank you
Sam the cannon man
She's a biggie but not the biggest I have worked on. Here is a 4 bore wall gun I helped a buddy build. It was a kit from the rifle shoppe, the wheels from an amish maker and the frame is white oak. Shoots 1/4 lb ball under 360 gr black.

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