English Fowler By Mike Brooks on Blog

[Leatherbelly]

  You've got to check this one out! Mike, you've taken this one over the top,away over! Very tastefully done. Love that front sight.

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[Eric Kettenburg]

Fr-eakin' NICE tang carving!  That is really great!  (and the engraving is pretty darned sharp too!)

[Ken G]

Pretty dang spiffy.  I'm not a Fowler guy but you have to admire this one liek them or not.  Great overall appeal. 
Cheers,
Ken

[Bill of the 45th]

Phenomenal Phowler, and you've even perfected a lock with a wooden phlint.  Really , realy sweet.

Bill

[Mike Brooks]

Thanks guys for the kind words I really enjoy building guns like this, sort of a passion of mine. I built two other guns while I was working on this one to kind of catch my breath, I have to thank the owner for his patience.
 This piece of wood was phenomenal, hard as a Purington Paver, you could cut this stuff any direction you wanted, which is pretty nifty.

[woodsrunner]

Mike, your comments about cutting the wood any way you wanted jogged my memory:

The old fellows up home who carved chain and other dodads out of wood sitting around on the Courthouse square on Saturdays used to walk the Mountains looking for big American Holly trees (Ilex opaca). They said Holly carves the same any way you cut it-across the grain, with the grain or tangential to the grain.

[KLMoors]

Wow. Beautiful gun!