Show me your rebuilds

Built and used this rifle in it's side hammer configuration for a number of years in competition but always felt it was a tad light in the muzzle to hold steady in our Okla. winds so built a new rifle with full length octagon barrel for a bit more weight. The rifle has been sleeping in the vault for a while then I got in a .40 caliber barrel and decided to give it a rebuild. All parts were pre-used parts from other rifles that had been stripped for parts. Only parts original to rifle were the stock, triggers and trigger guard and tang. Like it much better now and it seems happy to be back in use. Know I'm not the only one to rebuild an older gun to suit a new purpose, let's see what you've come up with.

Nicely done.
Except those screws on your sight!

Nice job, and I agree with Phi about the screws.
Larry

I did a couple of major overhauls on TCs;

The first was a Renegade stock that looked like someone had batted rocks with it. I steamed out the dents, added a new old stock TC .54 kit barrel in the white, an L&R RPL lock and thinned the excess wood off the stock, blued the barrel and stripped and refinished the stock. It was a lot more work than it sounds like because the lock swap was very difficult to accomplish.





For the next one I bought a Hawken stock online, the pictures looked good but it was a mess inside, stripped wood screw holes, oil-soaked wood that had deteriorated.

I replaced the tang screws with lock bolts after drilling out the screw holes and gluing in hickory dowels in for strength, I installed threaded brass bushings in the trigger inlet.





I fixed the lock bolt crack, I removed and replaced the cracked wood and glued a hickory dowel in the lock bolt hole and redrilled the hole.

This is glued in new wood.



This is after being shaped to match the lock mortis. The hickory dowel is in and the hole redrilled



I replaced the oily splintered wood in the back of the breech.



I reshaped and re-finished the stock. I stained all the hickory dowels I put in the stock to make them disappear.







I added a GM drop in barrel in .54 and called it done. I just changed the picture, the first one I posted was of a TC kit I put together, it was an overhaul as well but not as extensive as this TC GM overhaul.

I overhauled a TC Hawkins. Eric and others were very helpful in the process. It was a kit gun that had been poorly finished. I slimmed it down a lot. Tried to make it flow better.

Completely rebuilt and customized a Pedersoli Frontier flintlock, greatly slimmed down the forend and belly, trimmed down the ramrod channel to expose more of the ramrod, installed a tapered hickory ramrod, installed a nose cap, replaced the trigger guard, replaced the barrel retaining ramrod pipes with pinned versions, cut barrel tennons and installed lugs, installed an entry pipe, made and installed several inlays, made and installed a custom toe plate and lock bolt plate, re-contured the check piece replaced the front sight, draw filed the barrel and removed all the script, dimpled the muzzle end, added 4.5 oz of lead to the butt end to balance the rifle, finished by sanding and staining the stock with BC Rusty Walnut and true oil and lastly polished and stoned the lock internals. It was a great learning and fun project and a much improved, custom, (haha) rifle now!

Really nice! Doesn't look like the same rifle.

This one needs new screws too….

My CVA pistol, sold it because I don’t enjoy pistols much

I purchased an older built rifle from an online auction company that I trust and drove 30 miles to pick it up. The rifle was made from a decent piece of maple and had quality components throughout. However, some of the workmanship was a little off and it was caplock while I wanted a flintlock. So, I took to overhauling it. The inletting, inlays and metal to wood fit was pretty good, but the lock inlet shape and finish on the scroll work was more than I could take. I was able to locate a new Lyman flintlock lock for cheap, so I decided to retro fit it into the existing lock mortise, if an upgrade on that was desired then a L&R RPL lock could be installed later. I installed a ventliner from Track of the Wolf. Results can be seen below, IMO much cleaner look to the lock area.




Next was to remove some of the gouges and refinish that area. Riffler files and a pencil sanding stick came in handy. Getting a close match to an aged aquafortis finish was not easy.