I bought a TVM Late Lancaster rifle a few years ago and it is a spectacular rifle. But I have always wanted to build one. I did help an uncle complete a TC Hawken kit when I was a teenager and a cousin built a Lyman kit that I worked on with him. But I want to make one from parts and do it all.
So yesterday I ordered all the metal stock trimmings from ToW minus the muzzle cap, until I decide what barrel I’ll be using. It’s all nickel silver(yeah I know but it sure is pretty). I’m going with a large Siler deluxe lock and a single trigger. No patch box, but I plan on a semi fancy maple stock. Straight barrel, 36”. I want the metal finish to be a worn gun metal type finish. I like the traditional brown but I want it to seem aged but without all the dent and scratches, just don’t know how to get that. I have time. It’s going to be a long process.
I’m handy, have all the required tools I’m confident I won’t take $800 in parts and turn them I to a $300 rifle. It’s not any particular style or era. Just a picture of it in my head that I’m going to follow. It’s going to be a hunting gun and I won’t attempt any fancy wood carvings but I do plan to inlay a hunters star on the stock. I have a couple books I’ve been reading and have handled a few really nice rifles that I would hesitate even shooting they were so nice so I think I have a good footing to start on. YouTube seems to have a tutorial for everything too.
Consider this the first installment of many. I may video the entire process as best I can. Not as a tutorial but just a documentary. I expect it will take a year of evenings and weekends as I do not plan to do anything that i haven’t thought about, practiced on scrap and then thought again.
Here’s to it!!!!
So yesterday I ordered all the metal stock trimmings from ToW minus the muzzle cap, until I decide what barrel I’ll be using. It’s all nickel silver(yeah I know but it sure is pretty). I’m going with a large Siler deluxe lock and a single trigger. No patch box, but I plan on a semi fancy maple stock. Straight barrel, 36”. I want the metal finish to be a worn gun metal type finish. I like the traditional brown but I want it to seem aged but without all the dent and scratches, just don’t know how to get that. I have time. It’s going to be a long process.
I’m handy, have all the required tools I’m confident I won’t take $800 in parts and turn them I to a $300 rifle. It’s not any particular style or era. Just a picture of it in my head that I’m going to follow. It’s going to be a hunting gun and I won’t attempt any fancy wood carvings but I do plan to inlay a hunters star on the stock. I have a couple books I’ve been reading and have handled a few really nice rifles that I would hesitate even shooting they were so nice so I think I have a good footing to start on. YouTube seems to have a tutorial for everything too.
Consider this the first installment of many. I may video the entire process as best I can. Not as a tutorial but just a documentary. I expect it will take a year of evenings and weekends as I do not plan to do anything that i haven’t thought about, practiced on scrap and then thought again.
Here’s to it!!!!