Building The British Fowler
Basic Carving and Engraving
Starting the forges
Artistic Aging for the Flintlock Rifle
Making your own Ramrod Pipes/Nose caps
Historical Forging
Hunting Pennsylvania with a Flintlock
Leather bag/Shot Pouch/Forging parts
Knife Forging
Lock Timing and Tuning
Inletting 101
Forging a Belt Axe
Basic Bag Making (50 participants max)
Barrel Rifling
Hand Forging a Tomahawk
Barrel Refresher Tables
Mark Wheland and Art DeCamp are doing a seminar at the Gunmakers Fair. Over the last several years I acquired two antique rifling benches that were from the shop of Huntingdon County, PA gunsmith J.S. Johnston (1832-1911).Both of these rifling benches passed from Art on to Mark, who is now the owner. The first bench is set up to do 7-groove rifling. The second one does 8-grooves. When I got it two years ago, it came with an old wooden produce box that was full of rifling cutters. These would have been used in his shop to freshen old barrels and possibly cut rifling in new rifles that he was making. Both are set up with old rifle barrels as the guide for creating the proper twist in the rifling grooves. Interestingly, one of the guide barrels is an old Lancaster County, PA barrel signed "C. Gumpf".John S. Johnston learned the gunsmith trade and was in partnership with Joseph Douglass, Jr. (1819-1882) who was likely his uncle. Douglass, Jr. died in 1882 and Johnston carried on the business in McConnellstown, PA until he retired in 1903.Mark and I are going to present information on all of this and demonstrate both benches in our seminar on Friday afternoon at the Fair. (per Art DeCamp)
Ashlee's Return
Saturday
The Contemporary Southern Horn
Carving Tool Sharpening
Let's Get Fired Up!
How to Fix Basic Gun Building Mistakes
Casting with Delft Clay
Barrel Forging for CW
Meet the Kempton Judges
Making your own Chisels
Basic Carving and Engraving
How to do Wire Inlay on a Gun Stock
Bring your unfinished project
Inletting mistakes and how to fix them
Barrel Forging for CW
How to Process Flax to Linen/Coloring
Better Techniques for a Stronger Gun
Gunstock Finishing
Historical Forging
Powder horns 101.201.301 and then Some!
Wrist and Lock Panel Shaping
Finishing Smithing Projects
Ladies Tatting (bring shuttle)
Sunday
How to Sharpen your carving tools
Fitting a Breech Plug to a Barrel
Starting the Forges
Kitchen Happenings
Powder Flasks
Screw Top Powder Horns
Forging Lock Parts
Cleaning Black Powder from your Barrel
Lock timing and breakdown
Historical Forging
Gun Stock Finishing
Barrel Forging for CW
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