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  1. IanH

    My first attempt at Rococo

    I just got a nastygram for mentioning fertilizer in a Pyrodex thread. Thanks for the nice words, fellas, but I'm done with the stupidity of some things here. At least I outlasted Mr. EVIL! BYE.
  2. IanH

    My first attempt at Rococo

    Sore neck, too. A little preview. I know I should round over the leaves more, but then I'd have to rework some of the other panels to match, so probably will just leave them as they are. One coat of blushed ferric nitrate/water solution to raise the grain, sanded back and wetted with...
  3. IanH

    Flint to frizzen angle?

    Then get a longer flint.
  4. IanH

    Flint to frizzen angle?

    I'd like it a little steeper than that to keep from digging a ridge into the frizzen face and shredding the flint edge, but it isn't terrible. 30 degrees at contact between the average of the two flint face angles and the frizzen face at the point of first contact is about right. It might be...
  5. IanH

    Kibler colonial

    No filing on the wood, there's not any that needs taken off. Sand with 220 and done.
  6. IanH

    Kibler colonial

    The milling marks on my recent WR were almost invisible, all it took was a light draw filing. Tried & True varnish oil is good stuff. It takes so long to cure that I wouldn't bother thinning the first coat or two, it will stay wet on the surface for days and soak soak soak into the wood very...
  7. IanH

    Southern Mountain Rifle

    Nope, 1 turn in 70" these days. Mine doesn't shoot its best until pumping it up into 1800 fps or more territory with a PRB. 65 grains of 3F GOEX. I wish to smiles it was a 56 twist. Unless you're set on a "SMR" style, a 38" Haines in .54 or a Kibler Woodsrunner in .54 is pretty much THE...
  8. IanH

    Lock Binding

    The only thing that screw adjusts is the amount of engagement the front trigger has on the rear trigger. If it is screwed in too far, the set trigger won't set. That screw has nothing to do with how much pressure or how much follow through the trigger mainspring puts on the hammer trigger.
  9. IanH

    My first attempt at Rococo

    A little more refining and correction, more small corrections and a lot of detail left to go but it's coming along.
  10. IanH

    Lock Binding

    Thanks for the fotos, that was a cool addition that's been deleted. Looks like it was never fastened in and needed a countersunk brass screw in the bottom to hold it. As for the triggers, the trigger mainspring and hammer trigger need to be set up so the mainspring hits a stop before the...
  11. IanH

    My first attempt at Rococo

    All for now.
  12. IanH

    My first attempt at Rococo

  13. IanH

    Issac Haines build question - barrel/lock alignment

    Bill's 100% right. I built one from a board and one from a standing dead tree, two Kibler kits, and now working on a lesser kit with much of the same issues you are having. If you do it in the right sequence and get each step correct, you will have a MUCH easier time getting it together from a...
  14. IanH

    Issac Haines build question - barrel/lock alignment

    ^^^ YES!
  15. IanH

    Issac Haines build question - barrel/lock alignment

    It helps to go ahead and bend the tang to the approximate contour of the stock and also file some draft on the sides of tang and breech plug so it's easier to inlet snugly. Once you get it nearly sunk down all the way you can determine if the excess metal needs to come off the top or bottom of...
  16. IanH

    Lock Binding

    That sucks about them losing the grease hole insert, I would like to have seen what that looked like. Maybe sell it cheap or ask someone if they could fix on your triggers up at the same time the other work is done.
  17. IanH

    Kibler SMR All in-the-white?

    I color-case hardened all my hardware but left the barrel in the draw-filed state. I never finished the lock but it needs a nice polish and be left in the white.
  18. IanH

    Issac Haines build question - barrel/lock alignment

    It's hard to tell from the picture but your tang does appear a bit thick. Please don't do this backwards, even though you are at a disadvantage with the pre-inlet. Inlet the barrel and tang FIRST, keeping in mind the height of the pan and vertical center of your barrel. Your lock inlet is...
  19. IanH

    Humpback Flints?

    Clamp them between wood blocks in a bench vise and grind off the humps with a 4" diamond-tipped tile saw blade installed in an electric angle grinder. Or learn to knap your own flints and never be at the mercy of the flint vendors again.
  20. IanH

    Specific jag for loading?

    I think he was asking about the jags with the flat face and barb on the tip. Muzzleloader jags have a cup on the end radiused to fit the size ball that fits the bore the diameter is made to clean. Most of my underbarrel rammers have a cup carved into the muzzle end to fit the ball and a...
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