Something completely unexplored for me. A buddy of mine that I grew up with and got in a lot of trouble with, and lives on a farm nearby yet today that I can see from my house, got started years ago building flintlocks. I know nothing about them, but as time went on, even I could look at them and see he was getting really good at it. About 2 yrs ago he told me he was done building any. He still shoots a lot, but the novelty of building them had worn off, and they took too much time to build.
I went to him last yr and told him I need you to build 1 more. I want a flintlock rifle you built. He buys logs from local mills when 1 comes in once in a while with curl and figure in it. Gets them cut into square cants, dries them in his shed for months, then gets them kiln dried, then cut into stock blanks, then cut into whatever style he's building, and finishes them out and puts them together.
This is an Isaac Haines style stock. A master gun builder local to this area from the second half of the 1700's.
My buddy done me right. He told me it was the nicest section in the whole log and a lot of tight curl that he doesn't run into very often. Beautiful piece of curled hard maple in my opinion.
Don't know jack squat about flintlocks. Just going off what he told me. Isaac Haines stock. Rice barrel, which he says will shoot better than I can, can't remember what lock and trigger are on it. The brass on it needs aged yet, but it's just what I wanted and will be a terrific keepsake built by him.
Couple pics of the left side.
Right side is even better on the heavy part of the stock.
Curl runs all the way up on the bottom as well.
I went to him last yr and told him I need you to build 1 more. I want a flintlock rifle you built. He buys logs from local mills when 1 comes in once in a while with curl and figure in it. Gets them cut into square cants, dries them in his shed for months, then gets them kiln dried, then cut into stock blanks, then cut into whatever style he's building, and finishes them out and puts them together.
This is an Isaac Haines style stock. A master gun builder local to this area from the second half of the 1700's.
My buddy done me right. He told me it was the nicest section in the whole log and a lot of tight curl that he doesn't run into very often. Beautiful piece of curled hard maple in my opinion.
Don't know jack squat about flintlocks. Just going off what he told me. Isaac Haines stock. Rice barrel, which he says will shoot better than I can, can't remember what lock and trigger are on it. The brass on it needs aged yet, but it's just what I wanted and will be a terrific keepsake built by him.
Couple pics of the left side.
Right side is even better on the heavy part of the stock.
Curl runs all the way up on the bottom as well.
