After rust &%*#%!

[Bob Roller]

Eric- to my eyes - it is perfect!

I fully agree with Daryl on this rifle.Fine workmanship,not over done,fine styling
and in simple terms,my kind of flintlock rifle.The Chambers Ketland made the
focal point IMHO.

Bob Roller

[Smoketown]

Using your best Homer Simpson voice - Mmmmm, Chocolate ...

Love the color!


Cheers,
Smoketown

[elkhorne]

Eric,
Great looking rifle! I too live in the humid and rainy South and I do not think there is any way to stop rust on everything down here from tools to farm implements. I bought an air conditioner in my shop area would prevent it but with the heat and humidity, even with air, things still rust. Like was mentioned as I am working on a rifle, and come back the next day - there it is again - slight surface rust everywhere you look. Seems we just have to live with it. Just RIG your bores and press on. On my son's rifle of which I have been working for several years, the barrel was rusted when I got it and I am just going to use it to my advantage of "aging" the rifle as I finish it. We just have to persist! Maybe that is why you see very few surviving longrifles in the South and that is the ones that were used, all rusted away. Good luck and a again a beautiful job on your new rifle.
elkhorne

[Eric Krewson]

Thanks a bunch for the kind words. This is my third rifle, I had things go wrong on every part I picked up. I even dropped the barrel on a concrete floor and bent the tang in a upside down U-shape at the tang bolt countersink just as I was starting my final assembly.

I broke the back trigger trying to bend it a little to get it to fit in the trigger guard a little better. It bent just fine hot, it was that last little tap I gave it after I quenched it that did it in. I overlapped the break and soldered it back together, hence it being a little short. I ordered a new trigger from Davis but they don't keep any spares on hand.

[wattlebuster]

Eric I think every builder has some kind of problems on darn near every gun they build if the true story's were told. I know what few I have built were story's in themselfs. I know Mike had a heck of a time building Delilah for me. He even gave some blood for the cause an Im betting there were some words that cant be printed in this forum that bounced off the walls of his shop. for me its buttplates. I hate them an despise trying to get them right. Once again you did a knockout job on yours. Congrats to ya

[P.W.Berkuta]

I like it -- and the rear trigger looks good. I got one rifle on my to-do-list in the near future - hope it turns out as fine as yours did.

[Nordnecker]

Eric, I like your rifle, too. I bet you were POed when that trigger broke. I have to ask- Why did you quench the trigger after bending it? Seems like if you have the trigger bar in a vice, which would act as a heat-sink, it would be unnecessary to re-harden it. It would also make it more difficult to file after hardening. I ask because I'm gonna be bending/ shaping a Davis trigger in the near future.

[Goo]

Could there  be salt in your water,  are you on a well ?

[Eric Krewson]

Live and learn on the trigger, I chose the wrong path.

No salt in my water, city water right out of the Tenessee river.