NE Fowler

[cmac]

This is the New England fowler I'd been waiting to build for myself for quite sometime. It has a plain maple stock, Chamber's colonial lock, Netting 54" 54 cal. smoothbore barrel (I milled the side flats), the brass butt plate and trigger guard are from TOW and where modified and engraved. The pipes are from Mold and Gun Shop. The side plate I made. My trigger and wrist inlay are from an original (-the trigger plate). Stock is scraped. I antiqued the whole thing up some. Balances and shoots great.

[Mike Brooks]

Pretty !@*%&@ nifty. English lock, french trigger guard. Dutchy buttplate and a reused dutch thumbpiece and a hudson valley styled sideplate all stocked up in American maple. That's the way to do it. Did you inlet the trigger guard or concave it to lay against the stock?.....I have thought about doing that but haven't had the courage. Very nice job!

[cmac]

Thanks Mike. The triggerguard is inlet. Loosely based off one in the flintlock fowlers book that was a mix of parts. It weighs in at 8.94 lbs soakin wet

[KLMoors]

Lots of natural charm in that gun. It looks very colonial to me.

[BOB HILL]

Classy work. I like the look you got there.
Bob

[ShutEyeHunter]

Bee-utiful!

The buttstock has an almost milk painted look I've seen on period guns.

If you don't mind sharing, how did you finish the stock?

[C Wallingford]

Lookin good, Cmac.  I really like the finish. I'll bet that barrel is a little whippy!

[Ed Wenger]

I agree with Ken, very Colonial looking, nicely done. 

      Ed

[cmac]

Thanks all. The finish is Old Towne trudark walnut and Homer Dangler walnut scraped and burnished back some. Lots of refined linseed oil! This stock soaked it right in.   I normally use aquafortis and maybe follow that with a stain. I was pretty happy with the results here. Charlie the barrel is pretty whippy. Enough so that I can see it when firing

[Dr. Tim-Boone]

I bet that barrel would launch a round ball like a fly rod launches the fly!!  Very Nice!!!

[old george]

Neat looking fowler, I really like the stock finish.

geo

[ShutEyeHunter]

I like the shape of the comb on the buttplate

Have been pondering how to inlet something of that shape. All of the builder books I have show comb inlets that are either straight or taper toward the wrist. So you can just keep moving the plate forward until everything fits

What you did looks impossible to do ;-)

Any tips? 

[Tim Crosby]

 I want one.

  Tim C.

[cmac]

Thanks again all!
 The butt plate was a bit tricky. I hold the plate against the side of the board and mark the back of the plate. Then cut that on a bandsaw if needed. After that you trace the finial, stay inside the lines, use lamp black and keep workin away till she drops in.
I just got back from 4 days at a rendezvous with the fowler. Took 2nd in the smoothbore shoot. Nice groups and an unbelievable shot pattern
 

[cmac]

Not too bad for just having sighted in-Smoothbore shoot at last weekends rendezvous
Shots shown where at about 25 yds off hand,even hit 100 yd gong