Wide butt plates

[Longknife]

I am looking for a WIDE rifle style butt plate like the one on the Schreit rifle that measures 2 3/16. I have one of the TOTW #BP-K-5-B that measures 2 1/8 but after cleaning it up its a bit  narrower and I am sure to loose a little more in the finishing process, so where can I get one that will finish out at 2 3/16---pluss??THANKS, Ed

[Stophel]

Get "the Blob" from Reeves Goehring.  A large blank buttplate. 

I also have one of the "marshall" buttplates from Chambers (it's different from the one from Track and others).  It's pretty wide.  I don't have it in front of me, but I think it's about 2 1/4".

[Longknife]

Chris, Sorry i meant the SHREIT rifle, I changed it on my original post!!!! Thanks, Ed

[rich pierce]

I've got a very large one I made from brass plate.  That works.  It's about 2 and 1/4" wide x 5 and a halk inches tall.   But the blob is what you need unless there's one of Reeves' that has the right bend at the heel and general shape of the forward extension.  All of Reeves' buttplates can be peened to make them wider or longer.  It is not difficult to get an additional 20% length or width by peening.

[Stophel]

You can do all kinds of things with "the blob":


A good Schreidt buttplate may be made out of the "5K" sand cast brass buttplate.

[don getz]

Chris....nice clean carving on that gun, like it.   I also like the angle of that buttplate, they are so much more comfortable
with that flat, or slightly undercut angle...........Don

[Stophel]

The Dickert guns are angled like that.  I had to bend out the buttplate surface, inlet the tang down, then bend the buttplate back forward.

[Larry Pletcher]

I like your carving too.  Any chance of seeing more photos of the gun?  Tang, wrist, patchbox side maybe?

Thanks and regards,
Pletch

[Tim Crosby]

I like your carving too.  Any chance of seeing more photos of the gun?  Tang, wrist, patchbox side maybe?

Thanks and regards,
Pletch

 I second that. What you have showen is very nice looking.

Thanks, Tim C.

[rich pierce]

Stophel runs under the radar most of the time but it's always a treat to see his work.

[Stophel]

Here's the gun:

www.photobucket.com/albums/v326/Fatdutchman/Flintlocks/Dickert

You can do all kinds of things with that buttplate.  Beat it, bend it, shape it just might near any way you want.  Aah, the beauties of dead soft brass.


I prefer to stay under the radar...