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Well, it’s
been some time since I posted anything.
Sorry for my absence. Somehow
everything else just seems to get in the way.
A few
months back, Lynn Doughty carved a character that was carrying a flintlock
pistol and did a marvelous set of videos on how to carve the gun itself.
I scanned
Google Images (like usual) and was able to find some very good photos of a flintlock
dueling pistol that I thought looked like a good candidate. The website contained enough views that I was
able to print out a complete set of full size images to work from.
The
pistol in question was built by Henry Albright, who was born in 1772 near the town of Lititz in eastern Pennsylvania.
He produced his set of matching .45 Cal. flintlock dueling pistols sometime after
1793 but no exact date is known. Albright
was a master engraver of brass and silver inlays as well as a master woodcarver.
Personally, I thought that some of his
really fancy details and inlays were a bit much, so I simplified the design to
what you see here. The site even had a
picture of Albright’s original engraved autograph and I was tempted to add it to
the top of the barrel. But, to be
brutally honest, there are just some things that you can do with a nice hard, curly
maple stock or a steel barrel that you just can’t do with soft Basswood, so I
didn’t even try.
Just as
in my other two guns, I carved the stock, trigger guard, barrel and lock
separately and “let them in” as I would have done if I had been building a “real”
firearm.
Here are a few other views of the completed piece:
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| Close up of the Lock Mechanism |
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| I don't think I'd would like to be hit with a slug coming out of here :-) |
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| Left Hand Plate Detail |
'Til Next Time...Keep Makin' Chips!
