Tuesday, September 4, 2012

David Rase

An unadorned revolutionary rifle with a sliding wooden box stocked in a nice piece of curly maple from Freddie Harrison with a .50 caliber 44" long Getz barrel.  The buttplate was swaged from sheet brass and the triggerguard was sand cast from a wooden pattern of my design.  The sideplate, thimbles and entry pipe were formed and filed from sheet brass.  Other details on this rifle include a steel block soldered on the buttplate to protect the soft brass from the sliding wooden box spring, a reverse worm ramrod tip and hand made sling swivels with an Ed Wilde sling. 











Copy and photos supplied by David Rase.

3 comments:

  1. Super clean early rifle- back in the day our forefathers would be lining up for rifles like this one!

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  2. David,

    Magnificent rifle! love the metal finish.

    Dave C

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  3. Very nice work David. I like the choice of the open bow and the well executed casting.

    Heinz

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