lock pannel form

[greybeard]

 about my treatment of the foreward end of the pannel. My memory was thet I had seen a gun by Royland Southgate with the same shape.

The top pic is of a gun from Indiana mid 1800s with the same treatment.
So now I don't feel like I was cheating somewhat.
       Bob Reader


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[Bob Roller]

 I used a similar treatment to the lock panels on a boys rifle I made.
Looked OK and easy to do and appealed to my lazy side which is now
even worse than then.

Bob Roller

[greybeard]

I used a similar treatment to the lock panels on a boys rifle I made.
Looked OK and easy to do and appealed to my lazy side which is now
even worse than then.

Bob Roller

Prescsely Bob.

[David R. Pennington]

My first build was patterned after an old rifle a distant cousin has that had belonged to his great grandfather. It has a couple odd features, one being the same treatment of lock panels as you pictured. There are a couple rifles pictured in Mr Whisker's book on Gunsmiths of WV that have lock panels of the same shape.

[greybeard]

My first build was patterned after an old rifle a distant cousin has that had belonged to his great grandfather. It has a couple odd features, one being the same treatment of lock panels as you pictured. There are a couple rifles pictured in Mr Whisker's book on Gunsmiths of WV that have lock panels of the same shape.

FGood bit of info.  THANKS    Bob

[Roger Fisher]

I used a similar treatment to the lock panels on a boys rifle I made.
Looked OK and easy to do and appealed to my lazy side which is now
even worse than then.

Bob Roller

Jeez well put and polite also.

[Dphariss]

I think this shaping grew out of locks like those on these two J&S Hawken rifles from the 1830s







Dan

[Dave B]

This is an original with that style of lock plate. No signature can be seen that I can tell

[Bob Roller]

As I said earlier,it's an easy form to achieve and looks good.

Bob Roller

[mountainman70]

Here is closeup from an original WVa rifle from Philippi,Wva area.I like the treatment well enough to have put it on a fullstock perc longrifle I built this past winter.
http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/mountainman70/th_1850swvarifle007.jpg

hope you can see this.Photobukkit makes me nuts,cant leave anything alone.not fond of "new and improved".Dave

[greybeard]

As I said earlier,it's an easy form to achieve and looks good.

Bob Roller

Thanks Bob; Part of my reason for using this form of pannel is strength. Quite a few if the originals are missing wood in this area because, to me it looks like a weak spot.
I'm hopeing it will stay intadt for 150 yrs or  so.
Bob

[Harms Way]

I recently acquired this Rifle in a trade,.... I am not usually a fan of back actions, But really liked this rifle. It used the same configuration as you did... Still trying to track down the origins. So far it looks like it was made in Ohio sometime between 1840-1860 (But I could be way off,.. And I never tried to identify it on this forum).