I jut finished this for a customer down in Mobile Al. Sorry for the bad photo's but I left my good camera at home the last time I was there and all I had here in Baton Rouge where I am working is a litte cheap Cannon digitl.
The stock is maple stained with Nitric acid and has a hand rubbed oil finish. I used Pilkinton's Red Brown gunstock oil. This gun has about ten coats of oil finish and then I used paste wax for the final coat.
I know there has been a lot of talk about to age the metal or not to age. I did age the metal on this rifle some but I have not made up my mind if I will do more like this or not. I look at the process as just another type of metal finish, same as brown or blue. It is what the customer asked for and that is what he got, so like it or not there it is.
This is a 7/8" 42" 50 cal. GM straight barrel. Slightly modified Davis triggers. L&R lock.
The butt plate and trigger guard are castings that I got from TOW and modified.
The patch box, side plate, toe plate, thimbles, front sight, patch box release and springs are all hand made.
I made no real attempt to line up the screw slots, some are and some are not.
The inlays are sterling silve and are engraved but I could not get good pictures of the engraving.
The nose cap is poured pewter.