Kibler Colonial Brass Patch Box Cover

[wiscoaster]

Did a search here in the "Bench" forum and found nothing on this topic: I was wondering if anyone here built a Kibler Colonial and replaced the wooden patch box cover with their own brass patch box cover?

 

[CuNosecap]

I did this on a Chambers York 50 cal. Easy task, except for the complicated inletting work and the latch work. (Lancaster Co. style ornate box)

 

[wiscoaster]

I did this on a Chambers York 50 cal. Easy task, except for the complicated inletting work and the latch work. (Lancaster Co. style ornate box)

Did you frabricate your brass cover yourself or did you order one from somewhere? The inletting I can do; the metal work is another question. It would be my first effort to do that.

 

[Scota@4570]

Did a search here in the "Bench" forum and found nothing on this topic: I was wondering if anyone here built a Kibler Colonial and replaced the wooden patch box cover with their own brass patch box cover?

I have,
The patch box was from Chambers. Kibler made me a stock with no patch box cut out. I made the cut out using a milling machine. The release is the button in the top of the butplate.

 

[wiscoaster]

Nice!!

 

[Robert Losekamp]

@fsuoutdoors heads up keep an eye on this thread

 

[dave_person]

Hi,
You need Jim to not cut the patch box mortise in the stock and not dovetail the butt plate.

dave

 

[tunadawg]

Not a Colonial, but a Woodsrunner. To me the WR has Berks county style to it, so I'm doing (attempting) mine to somewhat mimic a Jacob George. I filed a piece of brass to fit the dovetail in the buttplate, and soldered it in. Then cut the finial to kind of match the picture in the "Berks County Longrifle" book, gun #23, and inlet into the stock. I plan on glueing a piece of wood against the butt plate to fill in the notch and dovetail there. I just wanted it to be different than everyone else's.

 

[CuNosecap]

Wiscoaster, I may have gotten my PB from Chambers before they had the domed lid model. I just don't remember 25 yrs ago. It could have come from Track, or less likely Pec River.

 

[CuNosecap]

York with brass next to my 58 Lancaster, both Chambers sets.

 

[wiscoaster]

York with brass next to my 58 Lancaster, both Chambers sets.

Is that a single-set trigger on the top one? Never seen a trigger quite like that before. Unique!!

 

[CuNosecap]

Nope. Just a simple pinned trigger on the York.

 

[J.D.]

Did a search here in the "Bench" forum and found nothing on this topic: I was wondering if anyone here built a Kibler Colonial and replaced the wooden patch box cover with their own brass patch box cover?

I'm working on one now. There are several tutorials on making brass patchboxes on line and in several books. Not hard to do. I filled the dovetail on the buttpiece with a brass "plug", silver soldered into place. Check out flint rifle smith's page, for some info on domed boxes. Bill Rabe has a couple of series, on Rumble, on scratch building, in which he demonstrates making a patch box, but you might have to wade through a few videos to find them. A search on "flintlock rifle building," there should bring up his page.