by Jim Green, Gunsmith on May 19, 2013
After the initial wire inlays were done, it’s time to start inletting the heart shapes.
The heart inlays are done, and the left side of the rifle by the cheek piece look nice.
The offhand side has the scroll drawn in pencil. This will be cut and inlaid next.
The inletting of the scroll work is slowly taking place.
The final product prior to the hand rubbed oil finish. A simple scroll inlay with brass wire really adds a nice touch.
The fore end is held in place by a brass plated screw that’s inserted through the middle of a brass acorn shaped inlay on the underside.
The rifle has had a pair of dovetails cut, and the scope mounts installed for the reproduction Wm Malcolm scope. This is a fixed 6 power magnification scope with a 7/8″ tube 32 inches long.
Now I’ll pull the wood back off the gun to apply a hand rubbed oil finish. The gun has been test fired already at this point.
The cartridges are based on the .50-110 case. I’m able to compress 103 grains of black powder under a 600 grain cast bullet. This rifle once finished will make an awesome BPCR silhouette shooter.
by Jim Green, Gunsmith on May 19, 2013
It’s been some time since I had the chance to work on this old shop project. The Rolling Block is one of a couple of shop projects that gets worked on in between customer jobs. So after all this time I decided that maybe I need to get into it and get some work done on it finally.
I pick up from where I left off last time by starting on the barrel work. Here I’m getting around to reaming out the blank and cutting the chamber. The caliber I finally chose is .50-110 Winchester because of easy to obtain brass casings.
Now the straight tapered octagon barrel has been fitted to the rolling block receiver.
So now I’ll turn my attention back to the stocks I’d carved before. I fitted a brass Schuetzen style butt plate to the stock. This is the easiest type to fit since it’s a straight cut. But to add a little “bling”, I decided to inlay some brass wire into the wood.
Here’s the first wire inlay started. You’ll notice the heart shaped inlay is placed where I’d like to put it next.
This is tedious work, but it’ll be worth it in the end. This will be a nice rifle project. I’m thinking black powder silhouette target shooting. Next blog will detail a bit more of the wi inlay work.
