Canoe Gun COMPLETED....

[Razor62]

Thanks Tom. I bought this one and modified it to what I thought might be close to what I wanted.

http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/671/1/BP-ENG-1-B

[gunmaker]

Thanks, how you coming on her?   ....Tom

[Razor62]

Haven't had very much time over the last few days. Going to the wake of a close friend tonight. 41 years old and decided he'd had enough. Leave's his wife and his 12 year old son to pick up the pieces. Depression is a terrible thing to have to deal with. I'll miss him dearly.

I was able to get to the workbench once for a short while since my last update. Got some more shaping done to the butt. Still need to get a small amount of "fish belly" out of it and slim down the wrist. I want the wrist line to run back some more too. Looking forward to getting back to it. Good therapy.

[pathfinder]

Nice work so far!

Sorry for your freind's wife and child. it's just me,but not so much for him! My daughter did it last fall and took her partner with her,so,I know those who were left behind are the ones who suffer.

[gunmaker]

Sorry for your loss Kevin, no words can really help at a time like this.  Depression is a terrible monster, and not to be taken lightly.  Stay in there. You to pathfinder. ....Tom

[Razor62]

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Thanks guys.

Pathfinder my heart goes out to you. So very very sorry.

[Razor62]

Got most of the final shaping done today. I wanted to get things down to final contour before installing my trigger plate. Drilled for the tang bolt and got some preliminary work done on the side plate. This is where I start to get charged up. I must've shouldered her a hundred times today. She really feels like a gun now. Lightweight and fast.
Still have the trigger guard to install and I need to modify my trigger to make it fit into the relatively small trigger bow.

[woody]

look'n good, sure wish I could spend more time on mine. Really looking forward to seeing this finished.

[gunmaker]

Nicely done a slim wrist is a mark of careful thought & design execution. Makes a gun feel good in your hand. Turkey's leaving the state for parts unknown.  Have you got courage up to weigh her ?  Mine goes 4 lb with a sling.  ....Tom

[olflint]

Good work Razor62! I also like the slim wrist. Have you decided what finish your going to do to the lock & barrel??

[Razor62]

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Thank you gentlemen.

Tom, I'll put her on the scale when she's completed. Probably gonna' be close to what yours weighs based upon how she feels in hand.

Olflint, I'm kicking around trying to simulate a damascus steel look to the barrel and possibly the lock as well although I'll probably fire blue the lock.

The trigger guard is gonna' pose a serious workload in itself. Lots of prep work to do. This guard was designed to be pinned to the stock with at least four pins. I don't know if I want all those extra holes in the stock. I'm thinking of possibly pinning the forward portion and using a couple of screws for the rear. Any thoughts from the other builders? There's not allot of wood to pin to up front without breaking into the ramrod hole.

[pathfinder]

Those are casting gates. Only #'s 2 and 5 would be used for pin's and #5 is optional for the pin,I've seen both used on originals. @ screws on the rear extention is more common.

[Razor62]

Thank you Pathfinder. I guess my inexperience is shining through. I understood that those were casting gates but I assumed that they were all intended to be pinned. That's good news. I think that I'll pin number two and five then. I can handle two more pin holes. 

[Razor62]

Managed to polish up my trigger guard tonight. Tom ( Gunmaker )had an awesome suggestion as to how I might anchor the trigger guard for cleaning it up. Alas, I couldn't locate the required chunk of scrap. I was getting ready to fabricate something to clamp the guard into when I remembered that I recently rescued a very cool vise from the scrap bin at work. I think it was originally intended to be used for sheet metal fabrication but the fledgling flintlocksmith in me  saw "trigger guard vise" in the design and rescued it from oblivion. The lightbulb came on tonight and I dug it up and put it to work.  It's like it was made for the task.

[sweed]

Very good re-purposing of an old carpenters tool.

That is a hand saw vice used by very old men when I was a kid, long time back, to hand sharpen hand saws by hand. Guess you could call it a ("HAND") vice!

I still have my dads old saw vice somewhere, I think,.. maby...Thanks next time I see it I'll throw it in my growing gunsmith tool box, and think of you when I use it!