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Step one.... Cut pattern out of a walnut plank .... check !
 

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Hey.

I have to ask.

On average, how long does it take to crank out one of your fine rifles?

Thanks.
Smoothbore trade guns is all I make .... It really depend on what's going on around the homestead ...but I usually figure a month to a month and a half usually but sometimes they'll stretch out to two months .... I'm slow. :)
 
Smoothbore trade guns is all I make .... It really depend on what's going on around the homestead ...but I usually figure a month to a month and a half usually but sometimes they'll stretch out to two months .... I'm slow. :)
I took and kept a log of building a NWG kit from Track of The Wolf.
Stock was pre cut, but lock mortise not done, that was one hundred hours till I started wood stain and barrel finish.
I bet it took me about three to four months to get just that much done
Two months sounds like a rush job to me ( time rush I know your quality will be better even then then mine)
 
I took and kept a log of building a NWG kit from Track of The Wolf.
Stock was pre cut, but lock mortise not done, that was one hundred hours till I started wood stain and barrel finish.
I bet it took me about three to four months to get just that much done
Two months sounds like a rush job to me ( time rush I know your quality will be better even then then mine)
I appreciate the praise . I love my trade guns but I'm no Hershel or Frank House . I like em skinny and a bit dirty ....just like the women around here ! LOL ... Love my patinaed and aged guns . ...and as authentic as possible . My guns are as light as the originals and they have to have damn fast ignition ....
 
Clean up at the breach ....
 

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Now start my centerline . Now this centerline is important to keep everything centered and straight . I'm sure there are different ways of doing this but just my way here ....this one is easy as the blank is way over thick . If its thin and warped you have to fight it a bit to make sure you get that barrel in there , first part in , most important and dictates everything else's location . This one ,like I said is easy and notvwarped too bad do I just found center at the breach and checked both ends , muzzle and butt , and there's lots of room so I just found center at muzzle end and laid this metal at my two marks ...it was fine at the butt ,plenty of room , so it'll go there just fine . If it was bad I'd just try to use that straight edge and fit it all in there . By the way ....just picked this long aluminum stock up at the hardware , 7ft. Works really well ....before I had to kinda piece the lines together and then eye ball the center line and see if its straight or not ....
 

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Hit the high spots and then connect them ....marks down at the ends .... Then you can make the center line on bottom . Sure is easier if you have help with holding the long straight edge
 

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Got my center line now ... Next , need to start the barrel groove . I like to just chisel in a straight groove to not only get rid of most of the dead wood and keeps the barrel centered and then start the real bedding . Starting at the breach and going forward .....
 

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