Shot Pouch No. 150 by Eric Fleisher with Netting by John Proud

 

Photos supplied by Eric Fleisher.

"Up the South Slope" by David Wright at The Booth Western Art Museum

H. David Wright, (b. 1942 -   )

Up the South Slope, 1982

Casein

Artist who paint the West do not always live there.  Here, David Wright of Tennessee paints a mountain mad as he might have look during the early 1800s.  The medium for this painting is casein, a milk based, water soluble paint.  Wright is also known for his Civil War portraits.

Photographed at The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA. The copy is from the museum description.

Merry Christmas!

Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas.

Horn Dipper

Photo supplied by Tom Connin.

Powder Horn and Hunting Pouch Set by Matthew Fennewald

Hemp body, brain tan deer flap bag with buffalo horn. 

Attached wire and antler measure that holds 50 grains. 

One inside pocket of deer hide. 

Sewn with linen thread, deer sinew, and hide wang. 

Lots of repairs through out. 

"Broken" knife I forged out of a file attached to the back. 

Copy and photos supplied by Matthew Fennewald.

Sterling Silver Mounted Pistol by Marvin Kemper

Mounted entirely in sterling silver, this pistol was inspired by an original piece built by John Small of Vincennes, Indiana for the renowned fur trader Pierre Menard (circa 1798).

Copy and photos supplied by Marvin Kemper.

English Flintlock Horse Pistol c 1660

A very rare horse pistol circa 1660.  This pistol can be attributed to the London gun maker Staci (1625-1690).  Because the pistol has no proof it was made before 1675 when proofs became law.  The lock is not signed but is again a typical form.  The pistol itself is 21 inches in length and has a 14 inch three stage barrel.  The full English walnut stock shows some ware, but is still in good condition.  The plain rounded lock is in excellent condition with a very strong main spring.  Good iron mounts and original ramrod.  This type of pistol was favored by English cavalry officers.

Photos and copy supplied by Robert Weil.

Back to the East Fork by Pat Lakin

Deer hunt 2016. No deer. Other than that... 

Rifle from Jim Chamber parts

Strap Amanda Evans 

Horn Cathy and Scott Sibley

Pouch Ed Wilde

Knife Joe Seabolt 

Tow worm Jim Webb 

Wad Puller Larry Callahan

"Didn’t have anything of Hershel’s with me this time. Maybe that’s why I didn’t get anything." Pat

Copy and photo supplied by Pat Lakin.

David Crisalli After Jim Chambers

Back on 29 July, 2015, a magnificent rifle by Jim Chambers was posted on the Contemporary Makers site.  Here is the link 

http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/2015/07/new-work-by-jim-chambers.html

I thought the rifle was particularly beautiful and I asked Jim, via an ALR post, if he would mind if I attempted a copy of it.  Jim graciously told me to go ahead, so I asked him for all of the specifics (caliber, barrel length, etc.)  Not a month or two before Jim's rifle showed up, I had decided to build another rifle using the many spare parts I had lying around.  I also decided that I wanted to build a small caliber rifle this time as everything else I had built recently was .50 or larger.  I didn't want to go as small as a .32 so I had purchased a 42 inch, .36 caliber swamped barrel from Rice and had it sitting on the shelf.  I also had a maple stock blank that I had purchased more than 25 years ago from Golden Age Arms and that had now been in the garage rafters for nearly three decades.  Since all the other parts I had available seemed close enough to Jim's rifle, I thought it would be OK to use them and just duplicate the feel and style of Jim's rifle, as best I could, with what I had rather than trying to make an exact copy.

The stock blank turned out to be about 3/8 inch too narrow for the butt plate I wanted to use and for the depth of the cheek piece I wanted.  So, I had decided that I would add as much material as I needed in the cheek piece area.  At first I was considering brass.....then ivory.....then horn.......then black horn.......wait, how about ebony?  Ebony it was.  It looked a little nutty in the unfinished state, with the stark contrast between the maple and the ebony, but once the maple was stained, I liked it.  

This time I tried the scraping and burnishing method of final finishing on the wood.  Not as "slick" as some other methods, but I like the overall look and, since the 18th century gunsmiths could not run down to the auto parts store to get sandpaper in various grits, it probably looks more like their rifles originally did.  While no one would mistake this rifle for Jim's original, I learned a lot by just trying to emulate Jim's style.....and the pictures are not even as good.  I took them with a cell phone under rainy skies.  Overcast is good....rainy, not so good.

Copy and photos supplied by David Crisalli.