« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: Double Flinter Finally Finished  (Read 3687 times)

Offline David Rase

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4320
  • If we need it here, make it here. Charlie Daniels
Double Flinter Finally Finished
« on: November 11, 2019, 04:53:10 AM »
Here are a couple pictures of the double barrel flintlock shotgun I finished up today.  No engraving, checkering or inlays, just a basic no frills hunting weapon.  20 gauge modern fluid steel barrels, L&R Manton locks, triggers and entry pipe, hand forged triggerguard and a vintage buttplate all inlet into a blank of curly maple from Tom Fornicola.  Finish is tannic acid and iron nitrate.  Plan on meeting the customer Monday morning at the range and shooting it.  If all goes well we will meet back at my shop to disassemble and clean the gun and turn it over to its new owner.  He will need to rub a couple more coats of oil on the stock and give her a coat of wax before the first bird falls prey.  What a light weight fast handling well balanced gun.
David










Logged

Offline Stoner creek

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2916
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2019, 05:30:56 AM »
Graceful and easy on the eyes. I can see that gun in an upland bird hunting scene!
Great job buddy!!!!
Logged
Stop Marxism in America

Offline Mike Lyons

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1242
  • Afghanvet
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2019, 05:37:09 AM »
Awesome Dave.  How are you going to top that? 
Logged

Offline smylee grouch

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7912
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2019, 06:24:45 AM »
Subdued elegance. That thing is going to be a rock star in the field. I like it a lot.
Logged

Offline Don Steele

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 689
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2019, 12:16:22 PM »
Yeah.... ;)
Elegant in it's simplicity without being "plain" by any means. If I had access to a healthy population of native Quail, that little sweetheart would have me shopping for a bird dog.
VERY nice. Thanks for sharing.
Logged
Look at the world with a smilin' eye and laugh at the devil as his train rolls by...(Alison Krauss)

Offline Dennis Glazener

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *
  • Posts: 19487
    • GillespieRifles
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2019, 02:07:32 PM »
Love that double David, if I were 10-20 years younger I would want you to make a 16 bore like that for me. It looks to be an ideal gun for quail.
Dennis
Logged
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend" - Thomas Jefferson

Offline wattlebuster

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2088
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2019, 03:04:12 PM »
Beautiful.  Excellent job
Logged
Nothing beats the feel of a handmade southern iron mounted flintlock on a cold frosty morning

Offline Tim Crosby

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *
  • Posts: 18392
  • AKA TimBuckII
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2019, 04:12:30 PM »
 Wow! Beautifully done and the lack of decoration just makes it easier to see. I'll bet the guy will be like a Kid getting exactly what he wanted for Christmas and then some.

  Tim
Logged

Offline BOB HILL

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2284
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2019, 04:31:35 PM »
A beautiful little gun, David. I know it will be a pleasure to shoot.
Bob
Logged
South Carolina Lowcountry

Offline Mike Brooks

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13415
    • Mike Brooks Gunmaker
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2019, 04:44:17 PM »
Nice....better get out those checkering tools though!
Logged
NEW WEBSITE! www.mikebrooksflintlocks.com
Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?

Offline David Rase

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4320
  • If we need it here, make it here. Charlie Daniels
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2019, 05:04:19 PM »
Quote from: Mike Brooks on November 11, 2019, 04:44:17 PM
Nice....better get out those checkering tools though!
That would require the customer opening up his wallet first.  ;D
David
Logged

Offline sqrldog

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 986
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2019, 05:24:14 PM »
Nice double gun Dave. It should be a great handling little bird gun. We're out of the wild quail business in Alabama, but it should be a dandy dove gun.
Logged

Offline oldtravler61

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4417
  • We all make mistakes.
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2019, 06:29:19 PM »
  Dave as always you have made another fine looking gun. Would be a great
Ruff grouse getter here in the North..  No fancy stuff just a serious bird gun. The owner should be real happy..  Good job..
  Oldtravler
Logged

Offline Joey R

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 702
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2019, 07:19:41 PM »
Very nice shotgun Dave!! What did it wind up weighing?
Logged
Joey.....Don’t ever ever ever give up! Winston Churchill

Offline Daryl

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15851
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2019, 07:51:47 PM »
Very nice David, well done.
Logged
Daryl

"a gun without hammers is like a spaniel without ears" King George V

Offline D. Taylor Sapergia

  • Member 3
  • Hero Member
  • *
  • Posts: 12671
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2019, 08:04:06 PM »
Piling on David, really nice shotgun!!  Jerry told me at Heffley that you were close to finishing up the gun, and was as giddy as a school kid.  I know he's going to love it, and I'll get to handle it next August at Heffley.  Isn't it amazing how thick a piece of wood has to be to get a double gun out of it?  Again, congrats on a fine sporting gun.
Logged
D. Taylor Sapergia
www.sapergia.blogspot.com

Art is not an object.  It is the excitement inspired by the object.

Offline David Rase

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4320
  • If we need it here, make it here. Charlie Daniels
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2019, 10:59:31 PM »
Quote from: D. Taylor Sapergia on November 11, 2019, 08:04:06 PM
Piling on David, really nice shotgun!!  Jerry told me at Heffley that you were close to finishing up the gun, and was as giddy as a school kid.  I know he's going to love it, and I'll get to handle it next August at Heffley.  Isn't it amazing how thick a piece of wood has to be to get a double gun out of it?  Again, congrats on a fine sporting gun.
We just got back from the range.  After test firing both locks and barrels Jerry shot it at about 15 yards at a piece of paper with a clay bird in the center.  Nice tight pattern and smoked the clay bird.  It will take at least a week to get the grin of off Jerry's face.
David
Logged

Offline t.caster

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3730
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2019, 11:05:45 PM »
That's a lovely little double! Very COOL!
Logged
Tom C.

Offline David Rase

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4320
  • If we need it here, make it here. Charlie Daniels
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2019, 02:24:26 AM »
It works, and fast! 


Logged

Offline tallbear

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *
  • Posts: 4053
  • Mitch Yates
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2019, 02:28:08 AM »
Great work as always Dave!!!!

Mitch
Logged

Offline Ed Wenger

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *
  • Posts: 2457
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2019, 03:10:44 AM »
Really nice gun, David..., beautiful work!


           Ed
Logged
Ed Wenger

Offline Stoner creek

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2916
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2019, 03:23:12 AM »
Quote from: David Rase on November 12, 2019, 02:24:26 AM
It works, and fast! 


And it’s a left hand double gun. Brilliant!
Logged
Stop Marxism in America

Offline helwood

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 149
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2019, 04:01:32 AM »
Very Nice Dave.  I like different and you've made something different, nicely.  Hank
Logged

Offline jerrywh

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8885
    • Jerrywh-gunmaker- Master Engraver FEGA.
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2019, 04:48:36 AM »
DAVE Where are the photos of the case hardening part????   Is it a trade secret??
Logged
Nobody is always correct, Not even me.

Offline T*O*F

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5123
Re: Double Flinter Finally Finished
« Reply #24 on: November 12, 2019, 02:54:41 PM »
Quote
And it’s a left hand double gun. Brilliant!
Clearly not a left handed gun, otherwise the front trigger would be on the left.
Logged
Dave Kanger

If religion is opium for the masses, the internet is a crack, pixel-huffing orgy that deafens the brain, numbs the senses and scrambles our peer list to include every anonymous loser, twisted deviant, and freak as well as people we normally wouldn't give the time of day.
-S.M. Tomlinson
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »