Well, this guy wanted a Rev War American made musketoon. HAD to have barrel bands (I will NEVER build a gun with barrel bands again as long as I live!!!!).
I finally got everything figured out, after much consternation. I came up with a pretty ingenious little gizmo to get the ramrod up a bit higher so that I would have plenty of wood underneath it in the fore arm without haveing to fishbelly it and make it even thicker than it already was. A little brass bit that goes inside the rear barrel band, guiding the rod into position.
The front band was a nightmare, but I finally got it worked out.
The stock blank was probably the heaviest piece of wood I have ever had. Couple this with the HEAVY barrel, and the resulting gun is also rather weighty. I think it handles well despite this, however.
The stock is super hard, heavy sugar maple. Stained with my own Aqua Fortis, and finished with probably 4 applications of real, genuine, boiled linseed oil. Grain nicely filled. Pedersoli lock and barrel and bands. The brass is from Goehring. The sideplate I cut from an old door hinge, snaking the design around the screw holes.
The relatively short breech tang and the position of the screw hole forced me to silver solder an iron boss onto the triggerguard, and the breechplug screw threads into it.
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