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Offline WKevinD

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Everymans Gun
« on: November 17, 2019, 05:08:16 PM »
This is my take on a utilitarian fowler, barn gun, shimmel.
Rice tapered round 42" 20 ga. lightweight barrel, Chambers Early Ketland, iron pipes and trigger guard, scraped finish, lightly aged.

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Offline WadePatton

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2019, 06:06:06 PM »
I like it.

I'm having the notion to do something like this, in a slightly different flavor. You know--seven projects from now.
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2019, 07:35:50 PM »
I like it. LOTS
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2019, 07:37:40 PM »
That is my kind of gun.
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2019, 07:52:26 PM »
Really very nice Kevin.  I like it a lot.

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2019, 08:40:04 PM »
I like it.

I'm having the notion to do something like this, in a slightly different flavor. You know--seven projects from now.

🤣😂 Your predicament sounds like mine. I’m gonna have to take an early retirement just so I can get caught up on orders and maybe work on my own projects. 🤣

Offline Mick C

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2019, 09:49:26 PM »
That's a good an example of a gun that, one would think, the average person had at hand as any I have ever seen.  Nice work and thanks for sharing.
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2019, 01:21:57 AM »
That is a beautiful common man's gun.  I love the lines.  Great finish too.  It represents a whole lot of guns that never made it to our era because the were used hard and used up.  Well done.  Well done indeed. 

Jim Webb told me he saw some shipping orders for guns that went to the Appalachian mountains.  I tend to think of Jamestown NC and Salem NC as crafting some distinctive, beautiful, accomplished and embellished guns and rifles. The orders Jim saw were for huge quantities of unmarked, plain, common man guns.  There certainly was not as much money in the mountains as there was in, say, Salem so it makes sense.  The point here is to not think that all plain common man guns came from back woods gunsmiths toiling away in a hut in the mountains.

The lines on Kevin's gun here could easily have come from one of the shops of a well known period builder.

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2019, 03:01:18 AM »
Good architecture. Warm feeling gun. I like.
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2019, 03:23:51 AM »
  Very nice indeed...plain an simple with attitude...My kind of gun...
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2019, 05:24:52 PM »
Not a darn thing wrong with that! I love them common man guns. This has the shape of a Lehigh, Bucks or even Berks Co.
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2019, 02:16:42 AM »
Thanks all! I posted this with trepidation expecting to get slamed. I try and build working guns that are believable. My goal is to reproduce guns that I have always wanted and would use but usually sell what I have quietly.

Kevin
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2019, 12:45:10 AM »
That is my kind of gun.

Yea,verily and mine too. GOOD job.

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2019, 04:19:43 PM »
  Very nice indeed...plain an simple with attitude...My kind of gun...
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 What Mike said.

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2019, 05:34:21 AM »
I like it a lot.  Love the architecture that you were able to achieved.  Looks a lot like a Rupp to me.

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2019, 07:07:58 PM »
 :) I'm common too!! Nice weapon indeed

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2020, 03:46:58 AM »
That looks like a dandy and a great gun for a cozy place like Cracker Barrel, and I mean that in the best possible way. Looks like a faithful companion of a gun, one with character and soul.

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2020, 06:11:45 PM »
I don’t know how I missed this thread last year. Reminds me of EKs scraped Bucks barn gun. Love it Kevin. Awesome.

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2020, 06:50:43 PM »
Total class!!! :)

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2020, 07:51:36 PM »
👍 love it!

Offline Craig Wilcox

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2020, 10:22:13 PM »
Outstanding work, Kevin!  Great selection of furniture and construction both.
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2020, 01:09:48 PM »
pretty good..."take"...

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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2020, 08:11:42 PM »
Yep, that's exactly what they should look like.
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Re: Everymans Gun
« Reply #23 on: January 29, 2020, 08:27:50 AM »
I really like that. I like "different" done right. I think I would have liked it more with a Fowler guard (or your take on a smaller type of guard) on it, even if it does go against the norms even more. Chambers smooth rifle kit is pictured with a Fowler guard in his old catalogue, I think it makes the wrist look longer and sleeker. Nice gun, would love to shoulder that thing one time.