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Hi,
Josh's rifle is done. It has a Getz 38" 54 caliber swamped barrel with the same profile of those sold with "Isaac Haines" kits. The lock is a Chambers Dale Johnson, the butt plate, trigger guard, and pipes are typical wax cast products. Josh and I made the muzzle cap, side plate, trigger plate, silver star, wrist plate, and patch box. The stock is sugar maple with a little curl and we started with a rough blank. Dave Keck inlet the barrel and ramrod groove and hole. The stain is ferric nitrate, however I tinted the Sutherland-Welles polymerized tung oil finish with LMF cherry stain. I also lightly glazed some edges with bone black. Josh did almost half of the stock shaping work and even worked on smoothing background around the carving. He inlet the breech plug and tang, lock plate and some internals, butt plate, toe plate, trigger plate, trigger guard, ramrod pipes, muzzle cap, and a lot of the patch box. He also made the ramrod. I often cleaned up and fixed accidental slips and wide cuts but left a lot alone because this is Josh's gun. You can see in the photos a few rough places and gaps but he did incredibly well for his first gun and being blind. The rifle is meant to represent a plausible rifle from Lancaster during the Rev War or shortly before. The patch box design was copied from one supposedly made by Dickert but perhaps engraved by somebody else. It has a tulip finial, which was the favorite flower of a teacher who helped Josh a great deal growing up. Her name was Nancy and I engraved her name on the side plate. This was a challenging project and now Josh just need to take it deer hunting, which he will very soon.

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What a beautiful rifle! What is even more impressive is the time and friendship the both of you got to share. In these crazy times we are in, this story of caring, sharing, and learning is impressive! Congrats to both of you!
 
I have been following the build on your other thread. The work Josh has done is worthy of any experienced builder and better than I could do. Now that it is finished, I can say without a doubt that is as fine a rifle as I have ever seen. You both can be proud of it. Would love to see a range report.:thumb:
 
Josh, what a beautiful rifle! :thumb:You could not have found better help than Dave.
Dave we all know that you had to spend hours helping Josh. WTG for being there for him!
Flintlocklar 🇺🇸
 

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