Shotgun parts baker2/18/2024 You are going to need time (40 to 100 hours or so), both metal and wood working skills a decent set of tools and some gun making know-how to complete one of these. The stock itself can vary widely as to what needs to be done to it depending on how it was made and where it came from. Triggers and locks will need casting marks removed, moving parts fit and tuned, located in the stock, then drilled and tapped. Barrels will need tooling marks removed, dovetails for sights and lugs located and cut, sights and lugs installed, touch holes/vent liners drilled, tapped and installed then browning, bluing, aging or “in the white” finish. Castings in brass, steel, iron and/or German silver will need casting gates removed, holes located and drilled, rough casting marks and imperfections filed off, then, final polishing and finishing. These kits are more accurately a collection of rough castings, locks, barrels and pre-carved stocks, generally without diagrams or instructions. Pretty much all of the US builders supply houses offer “kits”. Still appropriate for someone’s first kit, the cost will be considerably more than a mass produced kit but you are going to wind up with a pretty spectacular rifle. This approach yields a kit that can be put together rapidly with a modest array of tools, metal and wood working skills. Jim deserves special mention here as his kits (at the time of writing are relatively new) not only use parts of the highest quality, designed and produced in-house, are historically accurate, and are also manufactured on a modest scale using CNC. These kits are an excellent choice for someone just starting (gun building) and/or on a budget who just wants a decent gun you can hunt, plink or target shoot with, These kits conflicting with what I wrote in the previous paragraph, CAN be slammed together in a day or two, require very few tools and only modest wood working expertise. Historical accuracy will generally be sacrificed in some areas to bring production time and cost down. Mass produced and designed for mass production. These are your kit guns by companies like Pedersoli, Traditions, CVA etc. So lets start out with the varieties of “kits” there are out there for the person who wants to build their own long rifle, muzzle loader – what have you. That’s exactly what you were thinking, weren’t you? Now, when I say “kit” most people are going to think something that any Jane or Joe can slam together in the basement in a couple days. This isn’t going to be so much about building the Baker rifle as it will be about building from a “kit”.
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