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Patch box parts fitted and then removed from the stock for mounting and engraving..... Also installed the patch box closure spring in the stock and mounted the closure stud on the door lid. Cut a square hole in the lid, filed a square shank end on the stud, and then peened the stud into the...

I always engrave the box off the gun.....along with anything else I can. The thin brass parts will need to be well supported to keep from deforming them so I usually attach them to wood blocks with "cold cure" dental acrylic or just super glue them to well fitted hardwood blocks. Either will...

More tedious work.....at least for me.....

Always tedious to inlet complicated brass patch box parts....but a little at a time it gradually gets done. Door and finial in....side plated are next....then the latch assembly.

Finished the assembly of the door / hinge / finial of the patch box. Finished shaping the finial after cutting it out. Then burnt off the pattern and annealed the brass. By hand bending and the use of a small rubber hammer, I contoured the finial roughly to the stock shape. Filed the second...

was gone for a month and more. Today I had a chance to print out a copy of a patchbox I did on another rifle (in 2012 or 2014), scaled it to size, printed it, and glued the print on the sheet brass. Got it cut out with a jeweler's saw and mostly cleaned up with needle files. Needs a little...

I was getting ready to bend the breech plug tang and was tired of doing it the same way I have always done it with a lead hammer and on a lead block. It works but is not a very controllable process in the greater scheme of things. So I stopped long enough to make these magnetically attached...

I really dislike installing a butt plate. The only part I dislike more is installing a rear ram rod pipe. >:( At any rate, I spent WAY too many hours installing this butt plate even after band sawing the stock very close to the shape of the plate. I did the bit where the hollow of the plate...

Made a decision to duplicate a patchbox I did on another rifle in 2012 and gave away. I don't have one like it and I like the asymmetric design. Here is the layout..... The door in 0.050" material. The side pieces are cut out of .032" brass..... Then I contoured the door to the...

More tedious work that I like to get out of the way first.....butt plate inleting in progress.....

Thought I would do a little file work wedding band decoration on the muzzle cap and now repaired ram rod end. Although I could do the file work with needle files and the lathe on the ram rod tip, I had to try to match the bands on the muzzle cap with just a jeweler's saw and needle...

My usual method is to drill the plate for the screws and screw it into place on the stock before I start to cut in around the plate with a knife.... I began the inletting and was making good progress ....and here, because I apparently wasn't paying enough attention, I made an absolutely...

Getting closer to a finished background and starting sculpting. In the past I would work like crazy to get the background as flat and smooth and possible and then have to start all over again after whiskering. Now I get everything close and then wet the carving....do a quick re-smooth...wet...

And it begins.......just the start but beginning to take shape.....

Did the preliminary carving around the rear entry pipe.....pretty much a duplicate of the barrel tang carving...here is the start.... Nearing completion...... Pencil layout for the carving behind the cheek......

Wanted to finish assembly of the two piece breech plug today. The barrel is tapped 1 1/8"-12 and I had machined a plug to use during the machining of the barrel. It was the same plug I used during the proof firing. Once the barrel tapering and proofing was done I decided to use a part of the...

Time has come to make some of the required screws. Made the two lock screws and the tang screw today. The forward lock screw has a reduced diameter in the middle. The web between the bottom of the barrel channel and the top pf the ram rod hole is very thin, so the necked portion allows the...

First cuts....... Starting the refining process. Not done yet but getting close.....

Spikebuck, Thanks so much !!! I'll look for the book. Much appreciated...:)

Took a deep breath, put a brass mandrel inside the bore, and used my press and new proof mark tools today......If I mess this up the barrel is a write off...... :-\ But I didn't mess it up !!!!! Came out great :) ;)