Furniture?

[Jim Cook]

From a technical point of view, what exactly is included and not included in the term "furniture" as it pertains to a flint lock muzzle loader?  Is the term still used for modern day guns?   Thanks.

[James Rogers]

I use the term to account for everything except lock, stock and barrel.

[Roger B]

Anything that isn't a working part of the rifle is furniture.  Sort of like your house.  The chairs are furniture, but the toilet isn't.......even though sit on both of them & spend more time on the latter. 
Roger B.

[Jim Cook]

Yes, Roger, I do spend more time on the latter. But I also do my deep thinking there too. 

Anything that isn't a working part of the rifle is furniture.  Sort of like your house.  The chairs are furniture, but the toilet isn't.......even though sit on both of them & spend more time on the latter. 
Roger B.

[Ky-Flinter]

Is the term still used for modern day guns?   Thanks.

It is by me and I would guess by others on this end of the shooting sports.  Can't say for strictly modern types.

-Ron

[A.Merrill]

    Furniture, buttplate, triggerguard, sideplate, nosecap, RR pipes, toeplate. A patchbox, well to me it's furniture, but it is a working part. It opens and closes and has springs.     AL

[omark]

i refer to the working parts as furniture, as the others have said, and the decorations as inlays.    fwiw, mark

[Roger B]

I'm going to my office to think about this.  When you hear a flush, I'll have the answer!  I actually had thought about the patchbox, & it does move, but it doesn't make the gun go boom.  I'll stick with everything that doesn't make the gun fire as furniture except the stock.
Roger B.