Traditional Muzzleloading Association
Craftsmanship => Gun Building and Repair => Topic started by: the Black Spot on June 20, 2014, 12:23:37 PM
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Have a pedersoli kentucky, how difficult to add a sliding wooden patchbox ?
Thx
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Get book gunsmith Grenville co. step by step instructions--good luck...Tom
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Which one do you have ? Pedersoli at one time had different grades for their Kentucky rifles .
One model came with a brass patch box . The cheaper one had no patch box .
As far as how hard it would be . Well not all that hard . But it would take some time since your rifle is already finished . Since the rifle you have should also have a wide flat profile to the side of the butt , it would make things easier as you wouldn’t have a lot of profile work to make the wood lid match the curve of the stock .
Past that you would need to know how to make the sliding lid for the box and resulting cavity .
Then using a scrap piece of brass to make the end of the lid so as to fill in the cut out that would be required in your existing butt plate . Once you did that . You then would have to make a retaining catch spring . Which isn’t had to do and in fact doesn’t even need to be an actual spring as the release movement isn’t much at all .
But know this if your not careful with the work you will be doing , you could end up needing to completely refinish the rifle
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Thanks all for the info.
It is the cheaper one with no patchbox at all.
I am looking to ways to make this rifle look more period correct. I guess a brass patch box might be easier to accomplish. I just like the look of the sliding one.
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myself i dont think the brass one would be any easier to install . but thats up to you