I'm getting the urge to build a Committee of Safety musket.

[wvcruffler]

Faxed in an order to TRS for their Committee of Safety lock. This thread was too interesting. Plus its just a big old lock so probably not too awful to get close.
http://www.therifleshoppe.com/catalog_pages/us_locks_hardware/(642).htm

[FlinterNick]

In the video he mentioned the US stamp on the barrel was likely post war. At a yard sale recently I found a worn copy of "The New England gun: The First Two Hundred Years by Merrill Lindsay" for $1.50  .  The pictures are also giving me some ideas on what might have been in use during the RW.

Not sure who quote this statement, but in camp Washington’s quarter master general and armor described the state of supplies regarding musket as being old and ugly with 1-3 not functional and many didnt have bayonets. This is in the earlier stages of the War. Many of the guns used by the continentals were farm / shop made from random parts and older guns seized from British armories.

If i were to make one, I’d use a New England model with  continental lock.

[Clark Badgett]

In the video he mentioned the US stamp on the barrel was likely post war. At a yard sale recently I found a worn copy of "The New England gun: The First Two Hundred Years by Merrill Lindsay" for $1.50  .  The pictures are also giving me some ideas on what might have been in use during the RW.

Not sure who quote this statement, but in camp Washington’s quarter master general and armor described the state of supplies regarding musket as being old and ugly with 1-3 not functional and many didnt have bayonets. This is in the earlier stages of the War. Many of the guns used by the continentals were farm / shop made from random parts and older guns seized from British armories.

If i were to make one, I’d use a New England model with  continental lock.

I’m waiting for someone to make a Virginia COS musket. The kind that were a fairly close, crude, clone to the British 1755 musket except with a middle and front band (reportedly).

[Clark Badgett]

Faxed in an order to TRS for their Committee of Safety lock. This thread was too interesting. Plus its just a big old lock so probably not too awful to get close.
http://www.therifleshoppe.com/catalog_pages/us_locks_hardware/(642).htm

In case you don’t have a picture of what you ordered

[wvcruffler]

TY appreciate that! It surely is a chunk of a lock.
Phil