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Offline frenchman

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drawing lehigh style
« on: April 21, 2011, 04:49:10 AM »
so what is wrong with this picture, working on paper first, trying for a lehigh style half stock , cal .36 barrel 3/4 inch hope the picture is better. So petite she will be
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Re: drawing lehigh style
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 05:51:15 AM »
Frenchman:  I assume that you are only concerned with the shaping of the buttstock.   That being the case - your comb seems too pronounced at the nose and it is not long enough in proportion to the whole from the buttplate to the lock panel.  Since this a "halfstock" which generally represents the percussion period you might consider a trigger other than the "golden age" type which is in the drawing.     
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Re: drawing lehigh style
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 06:52:54 AM »
Here's a link to Allen Martin's original web site.  Look at photos in Gun Gallery 1 and 2, both Leigh's.  If you can copy and enlarge them to scale, it would really help you.  Looks are deceptive with the Leigh school.  Lots of small nuances to attend to, in their design elements, to execute one correctly.   

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Re: drawing lehigh style
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 05:13:42 PM »
For a late period gun, you'll probably want to delete the stepped wrist as well.
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Re: drawing lehigh style
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 06:29:53 PM »
Denis, Eric VonAuschwege has a really good profile drawing of a lehigh styled rifle.  He's away at school, I think, so I don't know how you'd contact him.  Perhaps Tom Curran would know.!?
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Re: drawing lehigh style
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2011, 05:19:19 PM »
Denis, I agree the comb is too pronounced, and the curves of the wrist and toe and not quite right.  An instructive approach, is to find a good picture of a Lehigh you like and simply enlarge it on a copy machine (figure out the % enlargement you need using the length of pull you want to end up with, or butplate height, if provided).  This will give you a good profile to use as a starting point for your rifle, or will at least give you a better idea how the curves of the comb, wrist, and toe relate.

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Re: drawing lehigh style
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2011, 12:50:26 AM »
If anyone has a good picture they need enlarged, I work in CAD and can do it on the computer. I need the image file and some idea about the final dimensions.

Always glad to help,
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Re: drawing lehigh style
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2011, 02:19:46 AM »
I believe Dave Keck has a full size drawing.

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Re: drawing lehigh style
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2011, 05:33:23 PM »
I believe Dave Keck has a full size drawing.

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