Now came the time to inlet and engrave the thumbpiece in the wrist. Then he
installed the inlays into the cheek of the rifle. 
.
Next Brian chose a Maple stain for his stock. He applied two coats.
Looks nice.
Once the stain dried, he applied boiled linseed oil to the stock by hand. 
This
took a lot of rubbing. Brian claimed his hand got a little warm in the process. 
With the stock drying, the barrel was engraved. The name of the rifle
is "Shooting Star". 
The barrel was plugged on the end of the muzzle with a wooden plug and the
toothpick placed in the flashliner. Then the barrel browning process began. By
the end of the process he had a nice purplish browned barrel. 
That
water was really hot according to Brian. The barrel was carded with a piece of
burlap.
He hot browned the screws and the lock parts. 
We engraved the side plate and the toeplate.
At this point, I must depend on Brian to furnish me with photos of the complete rifle, because I'm moving back to Iowa and will not see the completed gun assembled. Sorry. It will turn out real nice.
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