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Showing posts with label Robert Weil Archives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Weil Archives. Show all posts

Monday, September 29, 2014

From the Archives of Robert Weil


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Labels: Robert Weil Archives

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Around the Web: Robert Weil and David Zucker as Davey Crocket




Watch on You Tube.
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Labels: Around the Web, Robert Weil, Robert Weil Archives

Monday, March 11, 2013

Early Italian Locks





Photos from the Robert Weil Archive.
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Labels: Antique Lock, Lock, Locks, Robert Weil Archives

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Antique Lehigh from the Archives of Robert Weil





Images from the Robert Weil Archive.
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Labels: Antique Rifle, Lehigh Rifle, Robert Weil Archives
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Introduction

When Robert Weil started collecting images for the Contemporary Makers book in 1973 the challenge to record contemporary gun work was daunting. Gathering material was difficult and time consuming. Few makers thought that there was any value in published documentation of their work. Electronic publishing has changed all that. Having a website or having one's work available to view on the internet is becoming a necessity. In spite of all the potential to finally have a true overview of what's being produced by the artists of today, a great deal of work still remains covered up and basically unknown. Our role is to make an effort to document some portion of what’s going on today. To comment on the established makers and to uncover the unknown. We welcome your comments and suggestions and look to you our readers to make us aware of the talented makers out there.
Art and Jan Riser
Robert Weil
and The Makers

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Email

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robertweil@earthlink.net

2026 Events

2026 Events
17th Eastern Pennsylvania Longrifle Show

42nd Virginia - Kentucky Rifle Show

2027 Alabama Kentucky Rifle Show

Articles

  • "It's All Good"
  • A Great Lakes Pouch: Black-Dyed Skin with Porcupine Quillwork
  • A Soldier's Christmas at Morristown in 1779
  • Aging Contemporary Guns
  • Allentown
  • American Rifle at the Battle of Kings Mountain
  • An Early French Pistol by Brian Godwin
  • Billy Griner Interview by Eric Ewing
  • Brian Anderson
  • Brian Barker
  • Crocket Redivivus: A Painstaking Recreation of Davy's First Rifle
  • David Hughes
  • David Rase
  • Earl Lanning
  • Frank and Lally House
  • Fred Riley
  • Game Bags by Eric Ewing
  • Gary Birch
  • Hershel House
  • Ian Pratt
  • Jack Haugh
  • James Blake
  • James Rogers
  • James Rogers: Part Two
  • Jim Kibler
  • Joe Seabolt
  • John House
  • Johnson City School of Gunsmithing in Muzzleloading Magazine
  • Kings Mountain, A Hunting Rifle Victory
  • Lee Larkin
  • Menawa
  • Mitch Yates Interview by Eric Ewig
  • Pete Hutton
  • Rifle Making in the Great Smoky Mountains
  • Scott Morrison
  • Shawn Webster
  • Testing the Ferguson Rifle
  • Tom Conde
  • Weapons and Equipment of Early American Soldiers

Series

  • Contemporary Makers Portraits
  • From the Pages of Flintlock Magazine
  • Living with a Collection
  • Show Display
  • What's In Your Bag

Videos

  • Flintlock Rifles with Hershel House
  • How to Operate a Tinderlighter
  • Mike D'Ambra at Tulsa Gun Show: Part 1
  • Mike D'Ambra at Tulsa Gun Show: Part 2

Wayne Elliott Best Display Award

Wayne Elliott Best Display Award
44th Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show

The Painted Guns

The Painted Guns
Ian Pratt & Ken Gahagan

The Southern Traveler

The Southern Traveler

2022 CLA Live Auction

2022 CLA Live Auction

CLA Live Auction Items

  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2010
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2012
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2013
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2014
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2015
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2016
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2017
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2018
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2019
  • CLA Live Auction items - 2020
  • CLA Live Auction Items - 2021

Event Photos

  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2011
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2009
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2012
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2013
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2014
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2015
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2016
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2017
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2018
  • 18th Century Artisans Show Photos - 2019
  • CLA Show Photos - 2005
  • CLA Show Photos - 2010
  • CLA Show Photos - 2011
  • CLA Show Photos - 2012
  • CLA Show Photos - 2013
  • CLA Show Photos - 2014
  • CLA Show Photos - 2015
  • CLA Show Photos - 2016
  • CLA Show Photos - 2017
  • CLA Show Photos - 2018
  • CLA Show Photos - 2019
  • Canter's Cave Knife Makers' Seminar Photos - 2015
  • Colonial Williamsburg Photos
  • Dixon's Gunmaker's Fair Photos - 2012
  • Dixon's Gunmaker's Fair Photos - 2014
  • Dixon's Gunmaker's Fair Photos - 2015
  • Fine Folk Art & Arms Show of Colonial Pennsylvania Photos - 2010
  • Fort Ticonderoga
  • Ft. Frederick Photos - 2015
  • Lake Cumberland Show Photos - 2012
  • Lake Cumberland Show Photos - 2013
  • Lake Cumberland Show Photos - 2014
  • Lake Cumberland Show Photos - 2015
  • Lake Cumberland Show Photos - 2016
  • Lake Cumberland Show Photos - 2017
  • Lake Cumberland Show Photos - 2018
  • Southern Arms and Crafts Show Photos - 2012
  • Southern Arms and Crafts Show Photos - 2013
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2011
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2012
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2013
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2014
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2015
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2016
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2017
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2018
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2019
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2021
  • Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show Photos - 2022
  • Washington Historical Gunmakers Guild Photos - 2012
  • West Coast Horn Fair Photos - 2013

Links

  • Allen Martin Rifles
  • American Historic Services
  • Art DeCamp
  • Bill Shipman
  • Billy Griner
  • Black Powder 411
  • Caddo Pottery
  • Charles Wallingford
  • Conde Trading
  • Curt's Blacksmith Shop
  • David Wright
  • Eric von Aschwege
  • Frank Willis
  • Jack Brooks
  • James Blake
  • Jan Zender and Rochelle Dale
  • Jerry Eitnier
  • Jim Chambers
  • Jim Filipski
  • Jim Kibler
  • Keith Lisle
  • Losey Firearms
  • Lowell Haarer
  • Mark Elliott
  • Mark Silver
  • Mark Wheland
  • Marvin Kemper
  • Mike Brooks
  • Mike Gahagan
  • North River Forge
  • Old Dominion Forge
  • Ronald Scott
  • Roy Stroh
  • Steven Lalioff
  • Swamp Fox Knives
  • Tim Williams
  • Todd Bitler
  • Tom Curran
  • Yancey von Yeast

Blogs and Forums

  • American Longrifles
  • Angela Swedberg
  • Bill Scurlock Blog
  • Black Dog Arms
  • Brice Stultz
  • Burl Carvings
  • Cabin Creek Muzzleloading: Brad and Shane Emig
  • Colin MacCrea
  • Curt Lyles
  • Dan Furth
  • Edge of the Woods
  • Fire Buckets
  • Flint Locks by Chuck Edwards
  • Frontier Folk Message Boards
  • Historical Treckking
  • James Rogers
  • Jesse Brennan
  • Joe Schell flintlocks
  • Jud Brennan
  • Ken Scott Blog
  • Ken Scott Pouches
  • Kent Smith
  • Leather from the Past
  • Powder Horns and Friends

House Brothers project

House Brothers project

Museums

  • American Revolution Center
  • Canadian Museum of Civilization
  • Colonial Williamsburg
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • NRA National Firearms Museum
  • South Carolina Digital Library
  • The American Revolution
  • The British Museum
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Victoria and Albert Museum

Organizations

  • Contemporary Longrifle Association
  • Kentucky Rifle Association
  • The Honourable Company of Horners

Books

Books

Bone Tipped & Banded Horns Vol I & 2

Into the Bluegrass

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The Longrifle Makers of the Salem School

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Kentucky Rifles of the Great Smoky Mountains

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Moravian Gunmaking II

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Bone Tipped & Banded Horns

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The Longrifle Makers of the Mecklenburg School

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The Longrifle Makers of Guilford County

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The Gillespie Gunmakers of East Fork NC

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Kentucky Gunmakers

The American Longrifle

A Demand of Blood

Building the Southern Banded Horn

Pennsylvania "Horns of the Trade"

Moravian Gun Making of The American Revolution

North Carolina Schools of Longrifles

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Heinz Regional History Center

Shumway Publishing

Track of the Wolf