As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a client who wants a late Virginia style rifle fairly ornate. No problem until he threw in a monkey wrench saying, "I want my gun to be percussion". No problem, we will convert a flintlock to percussion, that way we can use a lot of pre percussion details and still be historical correct. At first I thought I would just purchase a late Ketland lock from Jim Chambers and remove all the flint parts and convert it to percussion. Not wanting to have all the flint parts collecting dust I my shop, I gave Jim a call, told him what I was looking for and he said I can make that for you. I was fully expecting to have to remove the pan and install a hammer on the stripped down lock plate. To my surprise, when I opened up the package from Jim yesterday, there was a completed percussion conversion of his late Ketland flintlock, hammer and all. All I need to do is fit the lock plate to a powder drum and inlet. I won't say on the forum what Jim charged me , but I did save my client a sizeable amount of money off the price of the flint version. Best of all, I will not have to do any conversion work or have spare parts sitting around collecting dust.
This might be great way to go for those of you wanting a percussion version of this lock for your Jim Kibler mountain rifle kit,
