The way a lock should work!

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

It just came home. I sent my Davis Twigg lock to Bob Roller, for his magic touch.  What a make-over!  The lock is now silky smooth, no stack, dead stop at full bent with no over-travel, and now, the sear arm does not hang down below the plate.  There is no visible evidence that he has filled screw holes.
I'm just delighted!!  I see a big bored English sporting rifle in the future.

Thank you Bob!!

[Swampwalker]

Looks good, Taylor.  The only concern I have is the large difference in position of the sear at uncocked verses full cock positon, which would seem to require the use of a feather sping on the trigger.  Is this a concern, or is the modern penchant for one position sears overblown?

[Bob Roller]

Taylor,
Thanks for the nice comments on the Twigg remake. A lightly sprung trigger is not uncommon on English styled guns. I can do the one position sear and have on the 4 screw caplocks from time to time. A set trigger either double or single can be used as well. I prefer NO set trigger on any rifle
I did fill the screw holes by screwing in threaded studs made of 12L14 and then swaged them with a flat ended punch and my machinist hammer. File them down a bit and polish the areas and the plate is ready for a new mechanism, I don't understand why the maker of this elegant lock doesn't excersize a bit of quality control on them. It has real potential as has been proven if made with a precise set of parts.
Thanks again for the posted pictures and the good comments. Sounds like a satisfied customer to me.
I saw your post about being "blessed" with four more inches of snow and we have 87 degrees here right now and I used the air condtioner in the car for the past three days.{:^)

Bob Roller

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Regarding the weather, Bob...you must think I'm pretty gullible to believe that all your snow is gone!

[bob in the woods]

We have bets going that the ice will be gone from the Lake tomorrow.  99% we'll win.  Earliest I've ever seen break up here!

[Bob Roller]

Taylor,
At 87 degrees.the snow is GONE but our local weather guy  says it will be back and maybe some in April. I have argued for years that Honolulu proves a lifetime can be lived without snow or ice. This extreme heat we are having now is causing premature greening of trees and I was looking at the huge oak in our back yard and it is starting to green up a bit.
We shall see what develops.

Bob Roller

[Bob Roller]

Pending the outcome of the CT scan on the 23rd,I may offer this remake service on this lock. Probably the cost will be about $165 on a customer furnished lock and $235 if I have to buy the external parts. That group of ten that I recently finished were $300 apiece and oddly enough,they sold fast.
Davis has agreed to sell me whatever I need for these locks because I am not trying to compete with them.

Bob Roller

[greybeard]

Bob;   Very well done and I really like how, if the stirrup should let go, on full bent, it is captured by the tumbler as a good lock should.
Bob Reader

[Bob Roller]

Bob,
That is an old idea and I try to use it on all my locks. The link that was in the lock as Taylor sent it to me was a skimpy thing. My original idea was to perhaps make replacement mainsprings for these lock but I was not convinced that the stock link was up to the job.
I remember only one of my links breaking and that was years ago in the shop. I never have figured out what caused it beyond defective material. Parts breakage on my locks is not a common thing,possible but not common. Anything made by the hand of a man is subject to failure at any time and I try to make sure it is rare with my locks and triggers.
Thank you for the nice comments on Taylor's lock.

Bob Roller

[Daryl]

Big bored English Sporting rifle, eh - well aren't you lucky! - by fall, Jason, at Rice Barrels, tells me he should have a nice tight 15 bore barrel for you and I - and we both already have the round ball moulds 'in stock'.