.54 cal. Lyman Plains pistol kit finished

[davepool]

8 months after i started, it's finally done. Lots of metal work, the metal parts in these kits are pretty rough. The lock assembly and trigger felt like rubbing 2 rocks together. After hours of filing,sanding and polishing it's as smooth as butter. The case hardening on the lock plate looked like it was painted on.

I finished the crappy walnut stock with a blood red dye/stain mixed with sanding sealer ( 4 coats ), 4 coats of the dye mixed into gloss lacquer, and 5 coats of clear gloss lacquer, and lots and lots of wet sanding and steel wool in between coats. Final polish was with Mothers white billet mag polish and 3 coats of carnuba wax.

Here she is:

[El Laton Caliente]

Beautiful work!

[Helen Keller]

Awesome!!


When it comes to wood.. you need time.




I have something like 16 hours into my thompsons furniture .

[vit]

Wow, that looks awesome!

[btcave]

Holy bejeezes that is purty!

[davepool]

This kit is up next, it's a pedersoli .50 cal flintlock. Gonna try my hand at doing some inlays, maybe mother of pearl diamonds and brass wire.



The Lyman looked like this before i started

[Helen Keller]

hand rub with nitrile gloves.. not latex.

[Schuetzenman]

Looks very nice. So nice I'd hate to shoot it and get it dirty. Congrats on a job well done.

[alismith]

Purty!

Too damned purty to shoot. That's a wall display and something to drool over....not shoot. If you want to build something to shoot, don't make it so purty....

[davepool]

Purty!

Too damned purty to shoot. That's a wall display and something to drool over....not shoot. If you want to build something to shoot, don't make it so purty....

It's a pretty good shooter too, before i did the final finishing i assembled it and took it to the range. I got a 6 shot group inside 3'' at 25 yds off a rest using a .535 ball with a .015 patch over 30 grains of swiss 3F black powder

[Hatedbysheeple]

Did you do anything to the steel besides polish it?

[jojo]

That is so sweet. I couldn't shoot

[davepool]

"Did you do anything to the steel besides polish it?"

No.
Started with 320 grit, then 400, 600 and polished with the green stainless steel polish on a Dremel buffing wheel. Many, many hours of work.
The lock plate and hammer had been case hardened so i had to get that cleaned off. The nose piece on the stock, brass trigger guard, trigger and hammer were sand cast and pretty rough, i had to file all the casting marks smooth before shaping, sanding and polishing. The hammer probably has the most time spent, i changed the profile slightly.

The trigger had a lot of lateral slop, so i made a shim to fit between the trigger and it's housing and polished everything, virtually no side to side movement and smooth as silk now. Feels just like the Timney triggers i have in my ARs

The really pretty part of this gun can't be seen, all of the moving parts function like they're on ball bearings.

[l921428x]

Nice work.

[ltorlo64]

Very nice. My wife would like us to get a muzzle loader pistol as a decoration. I am going to show her yours so we can think about it.