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General discussion => Contemporary Longrifle Collecting => Topic started by: WKevinD on November 17, 2019, 05:08:16 PM
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This is my take on a utilitarian fowler, barn gun, shimmel.
Rice tapered round 42" 20 ga. lightweight barrel, Chambers Early Ketland, iron pipes and trigger guard, scraped finish, lightly aged.
Kevin
(https://i.ibb.co/6t6P33Y/Fowler2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gWsT55y)
(https://i.ibb.co/mhXNx4n/Fowler8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/0YFswr0)
(https://i.ibb.co/GvnrNsC/Fowler5.jpg) (https://ibb.co/SX5ZGQV)
(https://i.ibb.co/bvqgjCR/Fowler7.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ykGnmZB)
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I like it.
I'm having the notion to do something like this, in a slightly different flavor. You know--seven projects from now.
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I like it. LOTS
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That is my kind of gun.
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Really very nice Kevin. I like it a lot.
Dave
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I like it.
I'm having the notion to do something like this, in a slightly different flavor. You know--seven projects from now.
🤣😂 Your predicament sounds like mine. I’m gonna have to take an early retirement just so I can get caught up on orders and maybe work on my own projects. 🤣
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That's a good an example of a gun that, one would think, the average person had at hand as any I have ever seen. Nice work and thanks for sharing.
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That is a beautiful common man's gun. I love the lines. Great finish too. It represents a whole lot of guns that never made it to our era because the were used hard and used up. Well done. Well done indeed.
Jim Webb told me he saw some shipping orders for guns that went to the Appalachian mountains. I tend to think of Jamestown NC and Salem NC as crafting some distinctive, beautiful, accomplished and embellished guns and rifles. The orders Jim saw were for huge quantities of unmarked, plain, common man guns. There certainly was not as much money in the mountains as there was in, say, Salem so it makes sense. The point here is to not think that all plain common man guns came from back woods gunsmiths toiling away in a hut in the mountains.
The lines on Kevin's gun here could easily have come from one of the shops of a well known period builder.
God Bless, Marc
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Good architecture. Warm feeling gun. I like.
Bob
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Very nice indeed...plain an simple with attitude...My kind of gun...
Thinks for showing..did..I. Say I like it..Oldtravler
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Not a darn thing wrong with that! I love them common man guns. This has the shape of a Lehigh, Bucks or even Berks Co.
As "Pa" Keeler once told me, "any man would be proud to carry that".
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Thanks all! I posted this with trepidation expecting to get slamed. I try and build working guns that are believable. My goal is to reproduce guns that I have always wanted and would use but usually sell what I have quietly.
Kevin
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That is my kind of gun.
Yea,verily and mine too. GOOD job.
Bob Roller
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Very nice indeed...plain an simple with attitude...My kind of gun...
Thinks for showing..did..I. Say I like it..Oldtravler
What Mike said.
Tim
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I like it a lot. Love the architecture that you were able to achieved. Looks a lot like a Rupp to me.
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:) I'm common too!! Nice weapon indeed
geo
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That looks like a dandy and a great gun for a cozy place like Cracker Barrel, and I mean that in the best possible way. Looks like a faithful companion of a gun, one with character and soul.
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I don’t know how I missed this thread last year. Reminds me of EKs scraped Bucks barn gun. Love it Kevin. Awesome.
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Total class!!! :)
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👍 love it!
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Outstanding work, Kevin! Great selection of furniture and construction both.
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pretty good..."take"...
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Yep, that's exactly what they should look like.
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I really like that. I like "different" done right. I think I would have liked it more with a Fowler guard (or your take on a smaller type of guard) on it, even if it does go against the norms even more. Chambers smooth rifle kit is pictured with a Fowler guard in his old catalogue, I think it makes the wrist look longer and sleeker. Nice gun, would love to shoulder that thing one time.