About thirty years ago, I built a series of three CVA kit guns. Sold the .32 cal squirrel gun a year or two back and mounted the .45 cal Kentucky pistol in a case with my old, fancy and now un-used pipes. That left the .45 cal Kentucky rifle to deal with. Not a very special design, as you all know, with its short-butted, thin, two-piece stock and that pretty basic CVA lock. But what the heck, just couldn't toss it, so I thought I'd use it as a learning tool. Darned if it didn't
work!
I bought a cherry half-stock- the Ohio rifle- from Pecatonica, plus an under-rib, a big old Golden Age brass butt plate and a compatable toe plate from Track, and got to work. The stock was already routed for the barrel and drilled for the ramrod, so in this home study project I learned to inlet lock, trigger and trigger guard, solder on an under-rib, bend and form a butt-plate and fit it to the stock, and to pour a pewter nosepiece. Turned out not great, but pretty good, and I really learned a lot. It was money well-spent; can't always say that these days.
Clay (Who's off to the mountain range tomorrow.)
work!
I bought a cherry half-stock- the Ohio rifle- from Pecatonica, plus an under-rib, a big old Golden Age brass butt plate and a compatable toe plate from Track, and got to work. The stock was already routed for the barrel and drilled for the ramrod, so in this home study project I learned to inlet lock, trigger and trigger guard, solder on an under-rib, bend and form a butt-plate and fit it to the stock, and to pour a pewter nosepiece. Turned out not great, but pretty good, and I really learned a lot. It was money well-spent; can't always say that these days.
Clay (Who's off to the mountain range tomorrow.)
