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  1. holzwurm

    need advise, RE 1861 Remington 40 cal old style, ser. #13549

    In original as found condition. Moderately corroded and has a broken trigger & cylinder stop spring. 1. Have disassembled to clean: can I use one of the derusting fluids from big-box or will I ruin the piece? 2. Where can I locate a trigger spring for this piece? $$$ 3. I'll probably...
  2. holzwurm

    Camp chair out of a found construction plank

    A week or so ago I found a 8 foot 2 X 12 laying aside the road. So I took it home and made this two-board camp chair. These have been called Viking chairs but there is no evidence vikings ever made such a thing. Anyway, it's a good item for that rondy camp. Actually very comfortable and easy to...
  3. holzwurm

    65 year old lock parts???

    Have spent time on my bench cleaning up the furniture off those pig-in-a-poke Hawken style rifles I bought last spring. The part surtface's have a great patina which I will maintain, but the insides are just rusted all to hell after 65+ years of sitting in a closet somewhere. Penitrating oil...
  4. holzwurm

    Unusual design percussion lock

    Have what I think is an early contemporary percussion lock. On the inside of the plate is stamped "T. GIDI" . The number 137 is stamped on several parts (inside the lock, on the barrel). The maker is "Taylor". Thoughts?
  5. holzwurm

    black rusting a barrel

    Many yers ago when I was a guest in Ron Ehlerts shop in TN, I saw one of his guns with an absolute BLACK rusted barrel finish. The item was pebbly rough and black as a raven. I think the product was one of his secrets and he never related how he accomplisshed the effect. I have a barrel coming...
  6. holzwurm

    wrecked hawkwn (more pic's)

    I am astounded how some parts of these rifles is so much trash yet the stock work is so well done. ie: butt plate and wedge escutions.
  7. holzwurm

    2 trashed hawken rifles

    Couple of weeks ago I mentioned two hawken style rifles I bid on at an online auction. When they showed up I discovered I'd bought a pig in a poke. Here are some images of the wreck. Both barrel tangs had been welded/brazed to the breech. One stock is missing a nose cap. The barrel ribs are...
  8. holzwurm

    Mailing some muzzleloaders

    Just learned that UPS shipping locations sell boxes useful for mailing a long gun. UPS frequently needs to ship golf clubs and has long boxes to do that. I'm not sure if they have one long enough for a really long rifle but my Jaeger fits one well. You could probably buy 2 boxes and sleeve one...
  9. holzwurm

    welding the tang to the breech plug !

    A few months ago I bid on a pair of "hawken" rifles built by a gent named "TAYLOR". They are numbered 2, and 1 ( a matched pair so it seems). When they arrived I could tell when I disassembled them I had bought a pig in a poke. The stock and furniture were actually fairly well crafted albit...
  10. holzwurm

    SOLD Pending funds: Transition 60 caliber Jaeger

    My last rifle made about 2010 and part of my own collection. Made in the manner of a transition Jaeger that would have come out of the shop of a colonial maker after the Rev war. It has more graceful lines and finer finish than many of the military style rifles carried by Jaeger mercenaries...
  11. holzwurm

    SOLD Pending funds Circa late 1970's Half stock percussion Hawken style rifle.

    This unsigned rifle came to me about a year ago. That's as far back as I can trace the provenance, although I, and several other persons of some knowledge, believe it was made in the late 70's. The lock is dated by the lock maker 1975. Here are the details: I believe the furniture came from the...
  12. holzwurm

    WANTED Hawken Shop in St. Louis

    Wanted: Any of the early catalogs from the St. Louis shop.
  13. holzwurm

    WANTED Filing vise

    Seeking a black smith made filing vise. Photo please.
  14. holzwurm

    Larry Mrock

    Back in the 90's Larry and I were friends. Since I've moved west I've lost touch. Anyone know of him?
  15. holzwurm

    1970's Hawken presentation

    Today I present the contemporary right handed Hawken I scored on an estate auction in Maine in late October. On Saturday the 24th of December it was delivered and when I opened the box I was stunned. I had never held such a beautiful work intended to be just a tool for some historical...
  16. holzwurm

    In time for christmas (Hawken)

    Midday Last Friday a box arrived from the auction house in Maine containing the contemporary Hawken rifle I bid on. It's beautiful. The auction verbage did not do justice to the quality of the rifle I unboxed. I am presently building a photo and text post for all to enjoy. At the moment I'm...
  17. holzwurm

    Two contemporary Hawken off auction site

    A few weeks ago I spotted a pair of Hawken rifles on an auction site called Rock Island Auction in IL. The text described them as having been built by a G. Taylor some time in the 1970's. The images showed them being complete and working. So, I placed a bid for the pair. I won! Yesterday they...
  18. holzwurm

    Sharon barrels inquiry

    Will shortly acquire a Hawken 58 cal. with a Sharon barrel. Do not know of the Sharon barrels back-story. Any info appreciated. Still in business? Reputation? So forth
  19. holzwurm

    Don Stith

    I understood a while back that Don had passed. Did anyone pick up the Hawken collection and business he had going?
  20. holzwurm

    Seeking info on early contemporary maker

    Just acquired a half stock Hawken 50 cal purported to have been made in the early 1970's by G Taylor. If the dating is close to being accurate I'm guessing that in the 70's makers were doing business with the Hawken Shope in St Louis. I stopped by there in the late 70's and staff were living...
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