British East India Company Model F Percussion Musket

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Again with the inspiration.
Nice work.

[henry r]

There are also scratch fix pens available for furniture in a variety of colours or some art shops sell "copic markers" that have a huge range of colours.

[Aragorn243]

Finally got back on this today. Dug out five more rotted areas, filled them with wood plugs and have them in the clamps now.

[browningautorifle]

We'll be watching...

[Aragorn243]

Plugs went OK. Oddly enough, one of the small ones got messed up. Fair warning to anyone attempting to restore one of these Nepalese stocks, the wood is soft. I had the plug well fit but in clamping, I made the clamp to tight and the plug actually crushed into the good wood leaving a small gap on the bottom. I have since filed and sanded them down so they look like those already photographed and started with a coat of BLO. Color matching with sharpies is better but not quite where I would like them to be. May try the other things. I am taking photos so will post them when I get a bunch together to show step by step progress. I have not started drilling and cutting out the wedge slots, kind of dreading that after my experience with the other side but hopefully, with that experience behind me I'll get these better.

[Aragorn243]

Plugs in place: I'm using American Walnut with Gorilla Glue which is the yellow stuff that bubbles out.









Plugs filed and sanded down. Color matching started but not finished. Holes cut through from opposite side. I did these one side at a time so I could use the old openings as a guide. This side went better than the other due to the guide holes being smaller. Other side I had to deal with the oversized rot holes.

[WarPig1976]

Nice, I would give a word of caution though to anyone driving plugs in. Make them undersize and don't go nuts clamping them so as to drive them in past where you have fitted them. Plugs can very quickly act as wedges and cause additional damage.
If I may,,,If you hit those lighter areas with a black Sharpie first, wipe lightly with an alcohol soaked rag then use your color, it will blend nicely. You can play around a bit and get it just right. Darker is better then lighter. What you're doing with the black is laying down a toner.

[browningautorifle]

Darker is better then lighter.

Yes... The plugs are coming nicely. This is all going to turn out looking good, looking forward to the end result...

[Aragorn243]

The trouble I'm having with the color is I get it almost perfect with the sharpies and as soon as I put BLO on it it actually dissolves it. The sharpie isn't going deep into the wood, just surface color. Could be I just have to get the linseed oil done and they sharpie it again.

[Aragorn243]

Put it all back together today. Had to drill holes and put pins in for the three wedges, the cleaning rod spring and the trigger guard. Used clipped nails for the pins. I pretty much left it alone as much as possible. No sanding other than the areas around the wood plugs. Metal still retains most of it's patina. It has a fresh coat of BLO on it. I'll probably put half a dozen or so coats on it I have a drywall screw holding the trigger guard on temporarily.





























---------- Post added at 04:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:36 PM ----------

Only things I were not able to salvage are the two hand guard screws., I still have one but it's mostly gone, and the front sling swivel and screw. Still have those also but both are broken.