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    Missed the lug

    Well, manure. I carefully laid out the hole for my ramrod pipe lug and the drill bit had other plans. This is my first repair for this problem, so I thought I would share how I went about it. Pretty sure I was inspired by Dave Person on how to add some brass back on the lug. I had some scrap...
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    Soldering barrel lugs and sight, success!

    Awesome! Great tip. Thanks Dave
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    Pistol trigger guard question

    I have a Ketland trade pistol kit from MBS and I was wondering how the grip portion of the trigger guard should be secured. All of the antique originals have no screws or pins visible. I assume that leaves filing a beveled spur on the end of the grip portion of the guard and undercut the inlet...
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    Chambers New England Fowler Finished!

    I think it was a lower grade from chambers. Maybe not the lowest, but maybe one up. I just took the one they happened to have in stock.
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    Chambers New England Fowler Finished!

    Thanks for the kind remarks Rich, I’ve admired your work for some time when I see it on the forum. I’m not a very active member here, but I don’t think this build would have been so successful if this forum did not exist. Thank you to all the generous teachers that contribute here.
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    Chambers New England Fowler Finished!

    Hunt down every source you can find, videos, books etc. I bought some maple board at home depot with some curl in it and shaped them like the wrist of the stock. There are kind of two approaches to relief carving, some stab in an outline with various straight and curved chisels and gouges, then...
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    Chambers New England Fowler Finished!

    Well, that was a journey! My first build, a 10 gauge fowler that started as a kit from Jim Chambers Flintlocks. Took about 7 months of casual work in the evening. I made a sideplate and customized some parts. I liked some of the English style carving from Grinslade’s book that inspired a shell...
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    Soldering barrel lugs and sight, success!

    I saw the blade “hack”’somewhere on here. Maybe from Mike Brooks?
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    Soldering barrel lugs and sight, success!

    I’m building a Chambers New England Fowler in 10ga and I wanted to share my experience with soldering the barrel lugs and front sight. I am new to building guns and had very little experience with soldering, so it took me quite a while to piece together the information from related posts and to...
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    Kit building inlets

    This is a small community and most kit makers are also contributors on these forums. They are small family businesses for the most part and I wouldn’t name names. It certainly doesn’t seem to be isolated to one company. I would say this, a call to action: Make a couple small adjustments to the...
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    Kit building inlets

    I feel like that should be the standard. If I do another pre-carve, that’s how I will request it
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    Kit building inlets

    Things are definitely not all that bad. The kit is overall very good quality and I have been in touch with the seller. I have found good advice here on how to fix these problems. All the wood metal gaps have been closed, with the exception of one which will need a replacement part that covers...
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    Kit building inlets

    ^ there it is from Bill Raby. (P.S. Thank you for your videos, they are such a valuable contribution to the building community, very generous of your time to produce and upload so much content.) Anyway, thanks for letting me vent a bit. I think a few tweaks to the stock carving on...
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    Kit building inlets

    In my specific case the defects were minor with the exception of one part that will have to be re-made from sheet brass because the inlet defect was too large to be filled by cold forging or "stretching the metal". It's not a big problem, and actually gives me the ability to more closely mimic...
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    Kit building inlets

    My question is this: Why on earth has this been the standard for carved kit guns for so long. I would imagine anyone who has run into these problems would agree that it would be easier to build if these pre-inlets were simply omitted, no lock plate inlet, no side plate inlet, no rear ramrod...
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