Thanks. Unfortunately, I didn’t take after him in that area. My older brother can do a few things but dad messed with that stuff since he was young. He’s built and sold several Ky Long Rifle replicas, Bone Handle Bowie knife replicas. He used to love going to gun shows and digging in “junks piles” for gun parts then using them to build something awesome and selling back to the same person he bought the junk parts from. LOL.
I know that feeling. I can do simple work, but trying to mimic what my grandfather did with firearms, traditional black powder or modern rifle, I can't hold a candle. Tried, but no cigar. That's why I want to build my own flintlock to say I at the least tried and get an A for effort. That's what my grandfather use to do too. He would go to gun shows and buy old, worn actions, stocks, and barrels. Stocks he restored and refitted for other projects. Barrels he would put through his lathe, and actions and barrels he would strip and reblue or parkerize in shop at cost. Go to the next gun show with a truck full of rifles he had only $60 to $100 invested each monetarily plus his own labor and in house materials and sell them $300 to $500 back in the day.
I always figured if they can do it ,I can too.
That's how I attack life.
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