Tennessee Rifle Flintlock Conversion

[Cades Cove Fiddler]

  .... been thinking of a build to represent an original Tennessee flint rifle that has been converted to cap,.. want to have a lock that has the look of using the original flint lock, period modified, keeping the pan fence, frizzen spring holes , just cut for drum and using a cap hammer,...have looked into a couple lock builders, but not seen exactly what I'm after...... something like the original locks pics below,... anyone making anything like this,... ... thanx, Boys,.... Regards,.. Cades Cove Fiddler ....

[L. Akers]

I recently made one like you are invisioning.  I used an L&R percussion Bailes lock to which I added a fence and rounded the rear of the lockplate.  It looks like your second photo.  You could drill and fill frizzen spring holes if you wanted it to look like a conversion.

[rich pierce]

I picked up a nice round ended English lock kit at the CLA show. Just castings.

[Elnathan]

Seems like a Siler Mountain lock could be modified with beveling, a fence or fence remnant welded on, and a couple holes drilled in appropriate locations. Proportions of the plate look about right to me...

[mountainman70]

Hi Dana, here are some pics of a smr? I built a few years back using mostly antique parts, Golcher lock obviously used a flint plate. 38 cal, bore dark but will shoot a 1 hole group at 50yds.Have a good time with this build idea.Looks like a goodun. Dave

[Scota4570]

Round the tail off on one of these?

https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/763/1/LOCK-GA-CR
https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/763/1/LOCK-LK-C

[flinchrocket]

The one at the bottom is interesting, is that a trade gun? 3rd one down in CCF's post.

[Hungry Horse]

I horse traded into an old Dixie York rifle in flint some years ago. Dixie used to make an upgraded lock for these but not any more. And I didn’t want to spend twice what I paid for the gun for an L&R replacement. So I made her percussion by cutting off the pan, but leaving the fence, replacing the flint with a piece of steel, and plugging the extra holes with copper wire hammered down tight. I’m sure there were lots of locks like this on the western frontier back in the day.

  Hungry Horse

[Joe Schell]

This is a Chambers late Ketland that i converted

[B.Barker]

I'd do what Joe did on his bear pistol.

[JTR]

I know of a Lehigh rifle with the same percussion conversion on it, so I'd go with the first picture with the flint hammer and iron cap smasher, just cause it looks cool!
You could also use the frizzen spring and attach a cap holder to the pivot part of the frizzen to hold the cap on the nipple! I'm not sure just how useful such a getup might be, but would be pretty neat looking none the less.
John