Adding a wooden sliding patchbox...?

[the Black Spot]

Have a pedersoli kentucky, how difficult to add a sliding wooden patchbox ?
Thx

[gunmaker]

Get book gunsmith Grenville co.  step by step instructions--good luck...Tom

[Captchee]

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

[the Black Spot]

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.

[Captchee]

myself i dont think the brass one would be any easier to install . but thats up to you