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General discussion => Contemporary Longrifle Collecting => Topic started by: Daniel Coats on April 21, 2024, 07:55:36 PM

Title: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Daniel Coats on April 21, 2024, 07:55:36 PM: My friend Allen delivered this to me at the Knoxville show. Classic Lehigh Schimmel fresh from his shop the same week. Very similar to an original rifle he bought along and displayed at his table. Haven't named her yet but she was clearly the Belle Of The Ball at the show IMHO. So maybe Belle is what I'll call her. Here's some pictures!

(https://i.ibb.co/nQ29ySQ/PXL-20240419-125845237.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wpHVq1p)

(https://i.ibb.co/zbz2S8c/PXL-20240421-160415725-MP.jpg) (https://ibb.co/pZSK3WD)

(https://i.ibb.co/ww65PwM/PXL-20240421-160510937.jpg) (https://ibb.co/jW4nQWg)

(https://i.ibb.co/TcWSf1Q/PXL-20240421-160616006.jpg) (https://ibb.co/BLnxpGh)

(https://i.ibb.co/RjJshgG/PXL-20240421-160716219.jpg) (https://ibb.co/CPSYJwp)

(https://i.ibb.co/j5rX4yK/PXL-20240421-160816782.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PY6HCcp)

(https://i.ibb.co/mBrFdhd/PXL-20240421-161011036.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SxD7HVH)

(https://i.ibb.co/5r6PjQ4/PXL-20240421-160343105-MP.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wSRfQng)

(https://i.ibb.co/gVkC42v/PXL-20240421-160221915-MP.jpg) (https://ibb.co/NSczTv1)

(https://i.ibb.co/rMH10d4/PXL-20240421-160248564-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QnM1QDr)
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Stoner creek on April 21, 2024, 08:10:56 PM: Good thing you bought it. I had the checkbook out…….
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Daniel Coats on April 21, 2024, 08:20:18 PM: Too slow old buddy it was mine before it left the shop! ;)
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Daryl on April 21, 2024, 08:31:29 PM: Sweet looking rifle. 50" bl.? Bet it holds beautifully. :o 8)
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Daniel Coats on April 21, 2024, 08:35:38 PM: 44 inch barrel in .45 caliber. I can hold it at arm's length with one hand like a pistol! From the shoulder it fits perfectly and swings easily.
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Mike Brooks on April 21, 2024, 09:02:48 PM: I remember when he was just a sprout.
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: wattlebuster on April 21, 2024, 09:16:33 PM: I like it. Lots ;D
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Robby on April 21, 2024, 11:00:12 PM: Golly, he makes beautiful guns!!!!
Robby
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: BOB HILL on April 22, 2024, 12:38:08 AM: Nice.
Bob
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: axelp on April 22, 2024, 02:27:47 AM: oh my...
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Daniel Coats on April 22, 2024, 03:01:13 AM: I've taken a good look now here's some of my favorite things about this rifle. Style and architecture are appealing to my eye. I really like the flats on top of the butt. Wood and metal finish give it that same look as the original Lehigh Schimmel at the show. Now for the best part, what really makes it pop is the surface texture on brass steel and wood! Just the right amount of tool marks makes the whole gun believable as a Schimmel and many other fine examples of 18th century products. I keep holding it in good light and slowly turning it to catch the details. I hope to use some of what I've described in my own work going forward.
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Keith Zimmerman on April 22, 2024, 05:14:56 AM: Congrats buddy! She's a keeper.
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: mountainman on April 22, 2024, 03:45:58 PM: I seen it in his shop yesterday and week ago, it had a sealer coat or two, it looked pretty sweet even in that stage! Enjoy!!
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Mike Brooks on April 22, 2024, 05:14:09 PM: That's a really great gun. I love it.
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Hawken62_flint on April 22, 2024, 08:58:42 PM: I really like it. I've seen a couple of Allen's Shimmels, and he does an amazing job. The rest of us wanna be builders can only aspire to be half as good. I have a left-handed one waiting in the wings for me to attempt. Great job Allen and you got yourself a work of art, Daniel.
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: J.M.Browning on April 23, 2024, 09:52:54 AM: Thank you for sharing beautiful - you should be very pleased many things I like would love to hold for the feel .
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Cades Cove Fiddler on April 23, 2024, 03:22:23 PM: ;) ;)... was great to see that rifle and YOU at the show.... Allen is a great guy and excellent builder... I always say that if I didn't like upper East Tennessee rifles so much, I would collect Lehigh Valley guns... this one is over the top... regards,.. Cades Cove Fiddler
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Gene Slodysko on April 23, 2024, 05:49:33 PM: Great looking gun!!!! Congrats!!!
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Daniel Coats on April 24, 2024, 01:56:14 AM: Thanks for all of the interest including PMs about this rifle it truly is as nice as it looks.

Here's one more bit of information you may find interesting. The rifle weighs just under 6 lb 12 oz compare that to the average newborn baby born in the United States at 7 lb 6 oz!
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Keith Zimmerman on April 24, 2024, 03:33:09 AM: I guess we will never know what it weighs loaded :P
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: DHouse on April 24, 2024, 04:00:02 PM: Congrats!! Really handsome gun. Great job by Allen!

-Dillon
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: oldtravler61 on April 27, 2024, 04:41:08 AM: You got a fine rifle from Allen...BUT where's the pictures of that full mount brown bear...? I see the skull but where's the rest...?
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Daniel Coats on April 27, 2024, 06:24:44 AM: (https://i.ibb.co/WfBJTdV/PXL-20210326-200541702.jpg) (https://ibb.co/YhfsrK0)
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: oldtravler61 on April 27, 2024, 08:10:13 PM: Nice teeth....lol
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: J. Talbert on April 30, 2024, 06:24:46 AM: Allen puts so much character into a plain rifle.

I love it
Jeff
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: D. Taylor Sapergia on April 30, 2024, 10:50:45 PM: Excellent acquisition Daniel!! Allen is getting the hang of it, eh?
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Bob Gerard on May 01, 2024, 01:58:12 AM: Well that is a really handsome rifle. I love the faceted top of the comb- if carried righr on down to the nose. Little details like that spin my top 🙂
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Daniel Coats on May 03, 2024, 08:17:24 PM: New horn by Bob Gerard arrived today pairs well. I'm very happy with the combo!

(https://i.ibb.co/d4sYJ7j/PXL-20240503-165529683.jpg) (https://ibb.co/v4CnvDV)
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: MuskratMike on May 03, 2024, 11:24:13 PM: This rifle and horn combo really takes my breath away. Everything about this rifle is what I would want in a rifle. Daniel you are one lucky fellow to have this fine piece. Feel free to include this rifle in your will to me, not that I am going to outlive you but it would give me something to live for!
'Ya done well my friend.
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: mountainman on May 04, 2024, 02:52:58 AM: I was trying to find a like button, but that is a beautiful combination!!
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: Bob Gerard on May 04, 2024, 03:20:16 AM: These need to hang over your mantle!
Title: Re: My New Allen Martin Schimmel
Post by: JTR on May 05, 2024, 05:18:34 PM: What a beautiful finish on that rifle!