Project???

[Wyo7200]

Make yourself a fancy skippy's annealer for ~$150 ($75 if you dont get the regulator). works from .300 blkout up to 7mm rem mag (largest I have).

 

[Wyo7200]

I resized these pics to minimize the intrusiveness of the thread. Just trying to give WT some ideas.

One of my first projects, stool for my daughter, with nails and pocket screws. The bevel was made with a dremel tool. The paint hides a ton of shortcuts I took...:

Mothers day box, with splines, only hardware is screws holding the handle on, first project made with handplanes:

Bench made with mortises, through tenons and wedges:

Foot stool with mortise and tenons- still working on the finish:

 

[Darkhorse]

...I've built a few Black Powder kits, it ain't 'rocket surgery', doesn't take a lot of high end tools, mainly, just some rasps, files, sandpaper, & steel wool, a little concentration, & a little more patience. I like the Lyman kits, you could probably use a .54... :roll: :twisted: :mrgreen:

...or you could 'customize' a build thru Dixie Gunworks, Track of the Wolf, October Country, etc.etc.
Something very soothing about fitting & polishing wood & metal, the 'feel' of it, watching it progress into something that marries art, form, & function...

Let me add a couple more vendors to the list, Wayne Dunlap offers a kit with really great wood, quality barrels and locks, and soft brass.
Jim Chambers flintlocks. Jim is the one that builds some of the best locks on the market and also offers several "Kits".
I built my last one by buying the parts I wanted from different vendors.
These are not really kits. They are Parts Sets and much more difficult to build and get things right. But the finished difference between a kit and parts set is amazing.