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Beautiful ! I’ve always liked those muff pistols. A long time ago in the 1980’s, I restored one of those for a friend from work. It was given to him by an older gentleman who was stationed in England while serving in the Mighty Eighth Army Air Force. The gentleman bought the pistol supposedly in London at an antique shop. He brought it back to the U.S. when he and his aircrew were rotated back to the States. From what I remember of that pistol was that it was referred to as a “turn barrel” and I remember the term “Queen Anne”. Since then, those pieces have intrigued me.
Thank you for showing that.
Hi Phil, I did inlet it to about 2 mm or so, it looks more proud in the photo than it actually is in hand. It was my first build and that was by far the most finicky piece for inletting so I played towards the side of caution as to not end up over sizing it and ruining the stock.
No need to apologize, no offense was taken to begin with! I have appreciated seeing your work on the forum recently, and am looking forward to seeing more of it. Thank you for sharing!
Unfortunately, even though I made quite a lot of pistols, and two East India Company. (39" & 42" barrels) Brown Bess muskets back then, I only have a few left, I found that building from scratch very hard work and time consuming, my interest in engraving took over and that's what I've been doing full time since 1984, but I have an antique pistol collection, of flinters and Colts.
I tried several new to me skills with my first rifle I recently built, engraving was almost one of them and I chose not to. Now I'm glad i didnt because to my eye this one looks pretty nice so I surely would have screwed up my rifle.
In looking at the photos of the two different pistols, the one I worked was much closer to the first one. The Queen Anne is very different. Beautiful work !