My next door neighbor has built I don't know the number but it's quite a few. My suggestion would be to go to a gun show or find where the old timers shoot and get some good advice from someone that has built them before.

 

If I remember correctly, which may or may not be a possibility, you may want to check the posts in the forum back a year or two. I believe someone built a couple from scratch and were mighty fine looking rifles.

 

Wow, is that cool. I really don't care for new ML and I enjoy woodworking, so I have been considering trying to find a used ML in need of some TLC. This would be really cool. I have a stack of walnut planks, one of which is just dying to be a stock.

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Wow, is that cool. I really don't care for new ML and I enjoy woodworking, so I have been considering trying to find a used ML in need of some TLC. This would be really cool. I have a stack of walnut planks, one of which is just dying to be a stock.

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Same here, I have a bunch of nice blanks that i dont realy want to cut up into turning squares for calls and for as long as i can remember i have wanted to build a front stuffer but just never got around to it. Winter is around the corner and it would be a fun project to get through the winter , I think im going to pick up the art of building the pensylvania long rifle book for starters and see what happens from there.
Its a pretty cool site that looks like every thing would be available from drawings to barrels and everything in between.

 

I know that you are not interested in a kit but I just thought I would share my experiance with the one and only kit I tried. It was a Jim Chambers Early York and I had a swamped Rice barrel that was a real slow twist , .50 cal 1 x 66 for shooting a PRB and with the U shaped grooves rather than flat for easy cleaning, a small Siler lock and the stock was rock hard Tiger Maple. When I unpacked it and laid out the pieces I could hear chior music softly playing in the background. We have a place here in SE PA in a small town named Kempton that is run by the Dixon family and is dedicated to nothing but BP and BP related stuff and as a frequent visitor and even more frequent BP burner I visited them often. I asked the owneres questions, bought the book that the elder Mr. Dixon wrote on ML building (Chuck Dixon is a master at builds) and away I went. Well, there was a problem and one that I never considered. My eyes, at 62, are just not good enough to do the fine work required to do the justice to the kit that it deserved. Also, inlaying a swamped barrrel is not as easy as it sounds and I just could not get that barrel to fit snug. In the long run I had to put her up for sale on consignment and take a financial bath. But I take comfort in hoping that whoever purchased the unfinished kit was skilled at ML bulding and had the eyes for it.

 

Finishing a plains rifle right now and starting a New England Fowling piece In a week or so. Have RCA #21 after that which is an early Reading style rifle attributed to Wolfgang Hachen (Haga). Just sold a 1770ish Virginia a few weeks ago... Hunting with my Albrect / Dickert pattern Lancaster at the moment...

For the best "kits" around look at Jim Chambers stuf @ flintlocks.com not the cheapest but really are top notch. The Lancaster below is a chambers kit and the Virginia at the bottom is a mosh mosh with a pecatonica stock. The NE fowler I am doing next is also a chambers kit. The Reading is a scratch built with a Rice reading profile in 58 cal.

I am not sure what you mean by"don't want a kit". The chambers, TOTW, sitting fox so on and so forth are more a collection of rough cast parts that all require significant work to finish. The "kit" part means they all are appropriate for what you are trying to historically replicate. Many "kits" are not exactly historically correct either.

Americanlongrifles.org is the place to learn about this stuff.. To see the best being made take a look at contemporarymakers.blogspot.com

 

Those are the EXACT rifles I mentioned. Beautiful!

 

A few years ago I finally got around to building a flintlock from scratch. A Jaeger /Christian Springs. After finishing, and with the knowledge hard won, I realized NOW I was ready to really build one.

Try Track of the wolf, Inc. Lots of supplies. Others have mentioned Sitting Fox.

 

Dave keck @ knobmountainmuzzleloading.com probably has more patterns available than anyone. If you send him your barrel he will inlet it and shape the butt to the panels.

TOTW has a lot of parts for sure. Most of their stocks come from Pecatonica (longrifles-pr.com).

For those interested in this stuff you should attend the Kalamazoo living history show in March.

I love building and shooting these guns.

 

Become friends with Rootsy and Direwolf . Thats what I would do!:lol: Beautiful guns guys.........rarely do I get real awestruck but those are AWESOME! About how many hrs you guys got into those. I would guess ALOT x AlOT

 

Well over 100 probably closer to 150 in each of the ones I have done... Get faster with each. Decoration takes the longest anymore. Can probably do a plain gun in a few weeks.