My first Kibler Assemble

[1:66 twisted]

Looks great!!! Nice job!

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

Looks great!!! Nice job!

Thanks 1:66
Appreciate it.

Take Care Stay Safe

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

I want to thank everyone for your kind words.

Just to clear...
I did over sand at the patch box, a little gap, between lid and stock.
Filed to much, at butt plate where the lid slides in.
I bump stock into my vise, I thought well I’ll sand it out,
Note: took a lot of sanding.
When installing trigger guard, it needed tweak very little, grad a small pice of dowel rod to tap it in place, dowel was half on guard and stock,,,, big dimple, more sanding.
Got a couple runs in last coat of sealer.
Do not over tighten stock in the vise, be careful.

I’m not a gun builder, although I would like to be able call myself one. I’ve ASSEMBLED one quality gun kit. I plan on many more.

I posted this to share for folks that are wanting to get there own kit and enjoy there end results.

Watch Jim’s videos.
Take your personal skills and use them with, what Jim shares.

I’m happy with my Colonial, I know next time, where to pay more attention.

Save up some cash, get ya one. You’ll be happy in the end.
You’ll be able to think I Did That...

Take Care Stay Safe
Fred

 

[French Colonial]

I want to thank everyone for your kind words.

Just to clear...
I did over sand at the patch box, a little gap, between lid and stock.
Filed to much, at butt plate where the lid slides in.
I bump stock into my vise, I thought well I’ll sand it out,
Note: took a lot of sanding.
When installing trigger guard, it needed tweak very little, grad a small pice of dowel rod to tap it in place, dowel was half on guard and stock,,,, big dimple, more sanding.
Got a couple runs in last coat of sealer.
Do not over tighten stock in the vise, be careful.

I’m not a gun builder, although I would like to be able call myself one. I’ve ASSEMBLED one quality gun kit. I plan on many more.

I posted this to share for folks that are wanting to get there own kit and enjoy there end results.

Watch Jim’s videos.
Take your personal skills and use them with, what Jim shares.

I’m happy with my Colonial, I know next time, where to pay more attention.

Save up some cash, get ya one. You’ll be happy in the end.
You’ll be able to think I Did That...

Take Care Stay Safe
Fred

Next time you get a dent from bumping in to something, get the wife's clothes iron out.

Put a pretty wet wash cloth or similar on the dent and run the hot iron over the dent, usually the water and hot iron will swell the dent right back out and lots of times if the grain is not broke you will not even see where the dent was.

 

[Codger Craig Wilcox]

I like the light color that that Ant Maple stain gave. Thanks for sharing
Rick

Ahhh - but that would change with the species of ant, wouldn't you think? You know, like red ants, black ants, etc.

Laughing - thanks!

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

Next time you get a dent from bumping in to something, get the wife's clothes iron out.

Put a pretty wet wash cloth or similar on the dent and run the hot iron over the dent, usually the water and hot iron will swell the dent right back out and lots of times if the grain is not broke you will not even see where the dent was.

Good idea, I wish I would have posted on that problem before all the sanding.

Thanks French.

Take Care Stay Safe
Fred

 

[springfield art]

I thought I would go ahead and post this.
It's a Colonial .58 Smoothbore.
It's my first time assembling an gun kit.
Very little inletting, very clean from Kibler.
I watched Jim's videos, learned alot.
It went well.
I see room for improvement, but overall I'm happy with it.
It's plain maple.
I was very happy with it.
If your new to assembling gun kits, take your time, look and feel your work.
Be careful when sanding, and filing.
Do so very little a double check before continuing to file or sand...
I didn't want it to dark. I feel a little darker but again I'm happy with it.
The quality is there.
I guessed 12 hours wife said maybe 15 hours.
I did leave barrel in the white, I'm going oil it up for now and let time take care oof for me. Next one I will brown.
I thank all those on the forum for sharing their knowledge, I went from years of shooting only percussion and conical bullets, to PRB, and Flintlocks...
Again thanks to all.

Take Care Stay Safe

Fred.

Good comments! Thanks! I'd like to assemble a Kibler sometime, maybe he'll see this and send me one for free! Seriously, though, your comments are great.

 

[ETipp]

Looks awesome. Congrats on a fine job.

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

Looks awesome. Congrats on a fine job.

Thanks Ed.
I appreciate that.

 

[Robert Losekamp]

That looks wonderful!

 

[Robert Losekamp]

@Psycho Mike the products used for finishing this one may be of interest to you if the color is what you mentioned, steel is left white too!

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

That looks wonderful!

Thank you Robert.

Take Care Stay Safe

 

[Psycho Mike]

@Psycho Mike the products used for finishing this one may be of interest to you if the color is what you mentioned, steel is left white too!

Thanks Robert. Unfortunately, LMF products generally can't get across the border I'm likely going to be using a bit of aniline dyes for color, tung oil to finish and likely a urethane, Arm R Seal or beeswax to seal / topcoat.