mikemeteor
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Building my first fowler from a blank.
New England style, steel hardware, 44" 16ga. Colerain OTR barrel.
Since we're entering winter, I get restless and like to take pictures as I go, so I hope to share them here as I go.
Hopefully folks can pitch in with constructive ideas, and/or new builders can learn along too as I make progress... and make mistakes.
Warning!: This should be viewed as more a "shared experience" than a tutorial!
I'll leave the tutorials to the pros.
Brought the piece of Dunlap stockwood home from having the barrel inlet and RR hole drilled by Mark Wheland, top notch builder as well as a tremendously helpful and friendly guy.
Mark helped lay out the pattern too.
Then off to the bandsaw and I knocked off the big chunks that didn't look like a fowler stock.
Laid out rough lock panel location before taking down lower forestock area.
Checked breechplug fit -it was good on this Colerain.
Installed the plug and bent it in my vise to match the topline profile i was after.
Laid out the lines, and inlet the breechplug.
I really like the heavy mortise chisel for chopping in the tang bolster inlet.
(You can see I use red lipstick as transfer medium. The s-hook is my temporary barrel lifting rig to avoid false marks and minimize inlet deformation - avoids need to "pry" the barrel/plug out by muzzle end.)
The breech tang has plenty of meat on it, so I'll be filing it down to final top-line profile later.
Laid out a 1/8" cast-off at butt and quit for the day.
Next up: barrel lugs and pin drilling.
New England style, steel hardware, 44" 16ga. Colerain OTR barrel.
Since we're entering winter, I get restless and like to take pictures as I go, so I hope to share them here as I go.
Hopefully folks can pitch in with constructive ideas, and/or new builders can learn along too as I make progress... and make mistakes.
Warning!: This should be viewed as more a "shared experience" than a tutorial!
I'll leave the tutorials to the pros.
Brought the piece of Dunlap stockwood home from having the barrel inlet and RR hole drilled by Mark Wheland, top notch builder as well as a tremendously helpful and friendly guy.
Mark helped lay out the pattern too.
Then off to the bandsaw and I knocked off the big chunks that didn't look like a fowler stock.
Laid out rough lock panel location before taking down lower forestock area.
Checked breechplug fit -it was good on this Colerain.
Installed the plug and bent it in my vise to match the topline profile i was after.
Laid out the lines, and inlet the breechplug.
I really like the heavy mortise chisel for chopping in the tang bolster inlet.
(You can see I use red lipstick as transfer medium. The s-hook is my temporary barrel lifting rig to avoid false marks and minimize inlet deformation - avoids need to "pry" the barrel/plug out by muzzle end.)
The breech tang has plenty of meat on it, so I'll be filing it down to final top-line profile later.
Laid out a 1/8" cast-off at butt and quit for the day.
Next up: barrel lugs and pin drilling.