Tom A Hawk, those are outstanding smoke poles! A work or art. I'm drooling all over my key board now looking at your rifles. The Longrifle is just a nice. Love the carving and wire inlays.
I'm a Hawken junky and that is one of the best looking rifles I've seen in a while. I'm kind of like you in that I have a "from scratch" Hawken I have been working on since 21 or so years. I started it in 1997 and was getting some help from a friend that had built about 100 rifles and we shot competition together for 22 years before I started this rifle. He passed in 1998 and I put it aside until last year.
I took up building Primitive Bows, arrows and stone points right after that so I have been busy.
It is a piece of Curly Ash. It was a plank, 2" x 12" x 70" from a guy in Missouri name Jay Ford. I'm using an Ed Rayl 1 1/8"x 38" .62 Caliber, 1-60 twist barrel. Large L&R Flint lock and double set triggers from Track. A good friend that I built an Osage Selfbow for years ago hand forged a Butt Plate and Trigger guard for me. I have the barrel and lock inlaid and I'm working on the butt plate now. I'm still trying to decide If I will put a nose cap on it or leave the wood bare at the muzzle. I've seen them both ways.
I have some orange/brown stain we made in 1997 for one of his rifles and will be using it on this ash.
Mike