Taylor,
Once again,my thanks to you for the picture post and again to you and Daryl and the rest of your family,
our condolences on the loss of your mother.I had no idea about that loss and had I known I would have waited to send these two pictures.
Now,to the lock. It's an L&R small Manton using their external parts in a new undrilled plate.
These come to me with the cock,frizzen and frizzen spring installed and the frizzen is hardened.The internal mechanism is variation #5 I have come up with for this little lock.This particular lock goes to Kentucky for a small rifle for a child who is now only 4 years old ,a little girl.
There are no cast parts inside the lock and I make all of what is seen here in my shop including the screws.
It represents my every day standard of workmanship. I made a lock in the late 1970's and early 80's for a German gun shop for use on Boutet replica pistols.It was 99.9% identical to this lock and I sent around 130 of these to that shop and so far, NO reported failures of any of these parts.
I have used the Twigg which I am told will not be available to me because of parts shortages and also L&T Durs Egg and Ashmore types. I do NO Germanic syles but Chambers and L&R offer them. I also use the externals for the fine Chambers late Ketland which IMHO is the best looking lock around.
If there are any more questions,post them on the forum and I'll try to answer them.
Bob Roller
