If you want to build a "schimmel" and are looking for pictures of originals, forget it, you don't need a picture. We are
talking about a plain gun, built by a recognized gun builder, but lacking a lot of the fancy stuff. This is one area where
pre-shaped stocks come into play. I have done a lot of Lancaster " poor boy, shimmel, or barn gun", whatever you want
to call it. Send a barrel to Dave Keck, or other stock carvers, and have them inlet the barrel and give you a butt shape
of a Lancaster, J.P. Beck, a Lehigh, Verner, whatever. Then shape a gun out of it minus the buttplate, sideplate, entry
pipe, and nose cap, and certainly no carving. Just like the Lehigh show in the first posting on this subject, which, by the
way looks great. I have also found that when you saw the butt end off of the stock, I do it with a slightly less than a
90 degree angle, try it, they shoulder just great. This can be a great gunbuilding learning tool. You quickly learn about
architecture and finishing, and it doesn't take forever to get a finished gun...........Don
