Early Lancaster Rifle  

Grade 6 Maple stock; all brass furniture;  Double-set triggers; .50 Caliber swamped Getz barrel (1/66 twist); 3/8" ramrod, shop made-brass early lock.

This rifle persona will be a rifle representative of the  J. P. Beck school, except it will have my influence. By that, I mean the carvings and engravings will by my own styling.

The gun from beginning to the end.

Here is the initial pile of parts in the beginning: bought the barrel personally from John Getz at Conner Prairie in 2002.

Here is a closer view of the furniture and the lock.

Details of the rifle project will have hyperlinks below to specific sections: 

Shaping The Stock:

Inletting The Barrel Tang:

The Ramrod Channel:

Building A Brass Lock:

Pinning The Barrel To The Stock:

Installing The Drum: 

Inletting The Lock & Nipple:

Trigger & Trigger Guard Installation:

Inletting The Thimbles: 

Side Plate Panel:

Making & Installation of Nose Cap:

Making & Inletting the Toe Plate:

Installing the Patchbox:

Installing Forearm Inlay: 

Carvings on Stock:

Engraving The Rifle Furniture: 

Staining The Stock:

Here are some photos and a couple fly-by movies of finished rifle. (warning they may be big).

Movie 1(14 MB)    Movie 2 (7 MB)

Barrel Engravings:

Large photo of cheek carving area:

Large photo of patchbox engravings:

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