Lock Panel Questions

[grabenkater]

I picked this up from an estate sale recently and I have been working on it. I would guess it was around 80% completed when I found it. I have looked at many photos of originals and this is where I have arrived.are these lock panels correct for this rifle? Also is the architecture correct for the entry thimble?

[Craig Wilcox]

Panels are a bit wide for my taste, but nicely delineated.

[Dave B]

I find i like my upper and lower margins to be half again what you have right now. Here are two samples of my lock panels.

The pencil lines on the siler lock paneles are my contemplating making them even slimer

[Dave B]

Some rifles depending on the school of the maker have an abrupt treatment of this area. It could be perfect for your's. I T6like to make mine more blended.

[Ian Pratt]

I picked this up from an estate sale recently and I have been working on it. I would guess it was around 80% completed when I found it. I have looked at many photos of originals and this is where I have arrived.are these lock panels correct for this rifle? Also is the architecture correct for the entry thimble?

What originals are you looking at? To me it looks like someone was attempting a Vincent rifle. If that's what you're after there are a lot of images online to compare with your project.

[Eric Krewson]

I have only made two southern rifles, one from a TN Classic pre-carve and a Kibler SMR, I like thin lock panels. The Kibler had minimal lock panels.

I looked at just about every southern rifle in the ALR library before I settled on this thin and flowing lock panel for my TN rifle.

[Roger B]

It's a Golden Age Arms Vincent kit. Only they used the Egg lock. They also sold a fullstock in flint.
Roger B.

[JasonR]

Generally, the slimmer the lock panel margins are the better the gun looks. I would pencil a line along the middle of your entire lock panel. Look at it and see how you feel about it. Roughly half of your existing margin should be rasped away. The upper left margin behind cock and lower right margin below frizzen spring are to be equal in thickness.

[rich pierce]

In the percussion period lock margins grew on many guns compared to 1700s flintlocks. Some were huge, which is not my preference. But if copying an original I try not to “improve on it.”