Yes, exactly. Walnut is just more appropriate.
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Awfully quiet over at Kiblers.
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Any finish recommendations for the walnut?
We will probably offer a stain package to help the black walnut look more like proper English walnut. Besides this, filling pores is an option which I like. Again, we’ll probably offer a dark filler. After this, just your favorite stock finish.
And that is available from you now?
No, the finishing products mentioned above are not available right now. We'll be getting things together fairly soon.
Thanks,
Jim
Good to know. Want to obtain them once you put that together. Thanks Jim!
ShilohSharps
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These are very appealing…..I’m eyeballing a Kibler kit for my first ever build. I was settling on a Woodsrunner, but this has tangled me up a bit. Being my first build, maybe a Woodsrunner would still be my best bet because there are a lot of build videos on the internet…..I wouldn’t feel comfortable building a Fowler without following instruction from more of an expert. Decisions, decisions….part of the fun.
I’d go Woodsrunner first , Fowler second
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I will also be watching for this to add to my order!
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Concern over the new Fowler barrel is unwarranted. I don’t have any reference books on Fowlers, but I have several on trade guns. The octagon-round-round barrels were on all the 1700’s English trade gun originals I had access to. Now the early French trade guns were octagon to round. After the 1820’-30’s the English barrels were octagon to round too for the examples I saw. It’s not a good idea to second guess Jim’s knowledge of these things. Here’s a photo of my 1740’s English trade gun. It is Rice barreled too.
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Yrs English walnut was used , referring to Reilly as they are well documented on google. When the father died around 1848 , his son EM Reilly went over to using french walnut. Quite why I don’t know, Today the top guns seem to be mainly of expensive Turkish walnut . I would have thought walnut was walnut . A lot of good trees must have been chopped down over the years . However my cape rifle has probably french walnut as it was made in 1853 Just a bit of conversation in passing
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English, French, Turkish etc. is all the same species. Region and growing conditions do make a difference. If we can find a reasonable source for English walnut, we’ll offer it as an upgrade to the black walnut. Almost all guns like this were stocked in English walnut. Black walnut is a cost effective compromise. We’ll be selling a stain kit to make it more similar to English walnut.
longplainyankee
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Preordered a 20 with walnut this will be my first flintlock and I'm like a kid waiting for any news of it! only other flintlock I have shot was a Brown Bess we had in the farmhouse would have loved to know what happened to that family heirloom.
DillyJamba
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What is that one of those "unmentionables" we aren't supposed to mention in this forum???
Inlines of any kind and cartridge guns
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Be careful @Eric Krewson, just typing those words in a post got me fussed at.
