Butt Plate On Lancaster Build

[Mule Brain]

Slowly working on fitting this butt plate, first build.

The upper part of the butt plate is extending beyond the precarved stock. Do I just need to file it to fit?

   

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Do you have any publications on building muzzleloading rifles?  Have you perused Mike Brookes tutorial on building a muzzleloader?  Either/both of these will answer this question and all of the others that will arise as your build goes along.

[Mule Brain]

I do have some publications, but they seem to be based on building from a blank instead of precarve. I will check on the Brooks tutorial 

Also Brooks tutorial covers from a blank build. Nothing I am seeing addresses my oversize butt plate.

[rich pierce]

If the buttplate is wider than the wood it will need to be replaced with a narrower one or filed to a narrower dimension. The buttstock almost looks finished. What are we looking at here?

[RichG]

the gunsmith of Greenville Co. book has some info regarding the differences between blanks and pre carves. Also Dixons book on building has some. This type of problem seems common with pre carves. if you can find a narrower butt plat that will be correct you can do that or just fit the plate to your stock, reshape anything that gets filed off and continue.   

[Mule Brain]

Thanks for the info, and that is what I predicted. I will get to filing it to shape

Regards   

[Not English]

Mule, It looks like you have not done any filing  of the butt plate mating surfaces. They need to be done first before inletting the butt plate. Once you have, you can look at the butt plate and see if it will fit after filing to fit. It looks to me like the butt plate needs to go forward and wood needs to be removed in the middle of the butt. Fitting the butt plate is really not that different on a precarved stock than it is on a blank, you just have less wood to work with.

[Tim Crosby]

 Just out of curiosity; it looks like a line drawn on the stock do you need to move the BP up to it?

     Tim C.