jerrywh
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These are personal photos of the jaeger rifle barrel I had a Vegas this year.
jaeger barrel
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except for the weight, looks pretty enough to wear. marvelous looking stuff you did there. thanks for showing.
Jerry,I remember seeing your beautiful Jaeger rifle in Vegas at the FEGA meeting,keep up the good work.
J.J.
J.J.
atexascowboy2011
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So, what King ordered this puppy ?
Marrinan
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Classical Style! Could have been for one of the Louis'. Absolutely beautiful. Fred
Roger Bleile
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Nicolas Noël Boutet never did it better!
JMiller
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It's a beautiful gun... amazing work!
don hicks
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Stunning!.
Cheers
Cheers
Toad
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Absolutely stunning
jerrywh
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The barrel was blued in a furnace of my design. The furnace has six digital pyrometers inserted through a ceramic glass top. It was a six hour operation. It took me about a year off and on to develop that technique. It is very difficult to attain and get it close to even from end to end.
I have two friends that are engineers who helped me figure it out. This is a photo of the patch box cover on the rifle before the wire wprk was done or the finish was applied.
This silver is only .030 thick
I have two friends that are engineers who helped me figure it out. This is a photo of the patch box cover on the rifle before the wire wprk was done or the finish was applied.
Indy Joneds
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beautiful work
atexascowboy2011
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Jerry,I need your address so that I can start shipping my spurs to you for blueing.
Overall, that is an overwhelming piece of art!
I just about replaced my 40 year old poster of Reba with it ! And then I got to thinking , how can I explain she's been replaced by a gun ? Heck,both are for FUN !
Overall, that is an overwhelming piece of art!
I just about replaced my 40 year old poster of Reba with it ! And then I got to thinking , how can I explain she's been replaced by a gun ? Heck,both are for FUN !
It's in the latest issue of The Engraver, page nine.
Southern Custom
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Outstanding
One of the reasons I started on the engraving path was a gun similar to this that I stared at in a museum as a boy. Your barrel replaces that one as my all time favorite example of the style. If you don't mind , Was this a commission, spec or personal piece?
Layne
One of the reasons I started on the engraving path was a gun similar to this that I stared at in a museum as a boy. Your barrel replaces that one as my all time favorite example of the style. If you don't mind , Was this a commission, spec or personal piece?
Layne
jerrywh
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Layne
I did not build the gun but gave advise on it. The engraving was a commission job piece by piece. I also cast the silver butt plate trigger guard and nose cap and made the molds for them. I chiseled the side plate the cheek piece and the patch box cover pieces. Some of the design was done by the gun maker James Schulze but revised some by me. I have been making 18th century guns for well over 50 years. Here is a photo of the left side of the buttstock. This photo is too large for here so I just posted the URL.
http://jwh-flintlocks.net/vegas-b-ls.jpg If you look hard you can see the wood carving . This carving is some of the best I have ever seen but did not photo well.
I did not build the gun but gave advise on it. The engraving was a commission job piece by piece. I also cast the silver butt plate trigger guard and nose cap and made the molds for them. I chiseled the side plate the cheek piece and the patch box cover pieces. Some of the design was done by the gun maker James Schulze but revised some by me. I have been making 18th century guns for well over 50 years. Here is a photo of the left side of the buttstock. This photo is too large for here so I just posted the URL.
http://jwh-flintlocks.net/vegas-b-ls.jpg If you look hard you can see the wood carving . This carving is some of the best I have ever seen but did not photo well.
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