Sunday, April 23, 2017

Progress on the Edward Marshall Rifle: Shaping the stock

Jud has been devoting nearly all his time on his "bench interpretation" of the E. Marshall Rifle.
This series of photographs shows the shaping and inletting of the stock and sliding wooden patchbox fitted into the dovetail slot where it snaps in with a decisive and very authoritative "click".  The buttplate was fabricated by forging annealed brass into the correct shape.