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Pappy:
Ya I kept him to busy to do much work on a gun. ;) ;D I did get to see it and thought I took a picture of it but can't find it, pretty cool looking.
 Pappy

amateurhour:
OKAY I already messed up the stock. This one is a lot more difficult wood to work with than my Kentucky pistol kit.

Was trying to do some more inletting work on the lock because the trigger isn't tripping it and went OVERBOARD with the hook knife and exacto because I'm crud with fine detail wood work.

Pics attached, please let me know how to fix this Eric and Gun Doc and other professionals.

Eric Krewson:
I can't tell exactly what I am seeing, sloppy inletting for sure but where is the problem, too big an inlet, over shaped lock panels, I can't tell.

You should have removed wood from the belly and inletted the trigger and trigger guard much deeper to make contact with the sear. On fowler type stocks there is not much wood under the lock, you have a ton of extra on your precarve.

Here is my fowler;



Here is an original English blunderbuss and the shape you should be trying to copy;



Never work free hand, always draw your cut lines and work from a full sized picture or plan if possible.

Eric Krewson:
OK I get it, you cut away all the lock panel wood in front of the lock. Not an easy fix, the only way to fix this would be to flatten the former lock panel area and glue on new wood. If your glue line is perfect it won't show much, if not it will look like a neon sign saying "here is where I goofed up".

This goes back to "draw your lines first", no freehand work.

Like this;



More on lines; if you thin the belly you need to drill a small hole in the middle of the barrel channel at the breech and insert a drill bit to tell you where the bottom of your ramrod hole is so you don't cut through while removing wood from the belly.



Here is my high tech measuring device;



The same gun in the bottom two pics finished;

amateurhour:
THANK YOU!

So you're saying I need to just go a lot deeper with the pre-cut inlet there?

I'll probably do a cover up on the wood rather than glue. I was thinking a copper or brass outline or maybe like horn or something?

Also no worries about the ramrod because the dumb kit doesn't come with one, which is insane. : (

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