Mike,
I laughed out loud at your reply!!!
Yes, you and Old Traveler have it sussed, a bit Herschel House influenced! :-) (His guns always look so Handleable....like you just Must pick them up and shoulder them!)
Pleased you all seem to like it. There are things I'd do different now, or try to do better, but I also remember the commentator of American Pioneer Videos , on Contemporary Longrifles, saying, "Herschel avoids the pitfall of overdoing his work" and that stuck with me. Very important point for a Colonial gun I think.
Cades Cove Fiddler,
If you can get a look at Herschel building a longrifle on the American Pioneer series, it shows his "ageing" recipe, plain old Clorox bleach and water, and that it what I did with this one. It's a bit savage if you go away and forget about it, LOL! (Ask me how I know!)
But does give a sort of aged or different look.
Some of the metal was already rusty and pitted from the scrap pile, so I didn't bother cleaning it down to all shiny, so some parts were a bit aged when constructed.
I made this one for my son, so took the photos before I parted with it.
It's a .54 with a coned muzzle.
Again chaps, pleased you like it!
PS, I don't have photos of the next one I made, so will have to take some one day. (For that one, I Still thought I'd short-changed myself, so bought a lock (Jim C again, and made the rest, except for the small wood screws in the patchbox. Rest was all homemade.)
Have pictures of others though, but not Woodbury exactly.
(Still laughing Mike!)
Richard.
