Making progress. It’s becoming a more interesting story, which I love.
I had the barrel in, lock in, ramrod groove in, hole drilled, forward thimbles in, trigger in, and was working on the buttplate when I realize some of the buttstock area was punky. No worries- more interesting. I cut away the weaker areas and spliced in 2 substantial pieces of cherry from a plank I have drying. So now the gun has a back story.
One possible name for the gun is “200”. It’s story is that our shop had an order to refurbish 200 muskets for the coming War. By the time we got to this one- a gun recovered from a sopping ditch with some buttstock rot- we had neither good blanks left for a restock nor much time left. So we patched it and sent it out, hoping it would be accepted. It was rejected and so now it’s mine.
Another possible name is “Patches” obviously and option 3 proffered by Acer is “Peggy” for the pegs used in adding in the patches.
No matter what, it’s an interesting build for me and keeping myself interested is my main goal. No regrets AT ALL so please refrain from commenting on the original blank.
