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I'm busy working on a flintlock (early Golden Era Lancaster) right now (which explains why there are fewer posts from me). Took me 2 hours to fit two pipes/thimbles tonight. Finished fitting the buttplate earlier this week. Other work already done was inletting the lock, barrel & tang, trigger, partial inletting of the trigger guard, fitting tang to barrel and prepping barrel to accept pins. Lotsa filing to remove casting marks from trigger guard and buttplate. Some shaping done to the stock too.
Must have over 70 hours into the project so far and a lot more to go. While it's fun and even theraputic (for me), I confess that I would starve to death or spend time in Debtor's Prison if I was trying to make it as a gunsmith in 1700-1800s.
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