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Deavis,
What decided me to make the Blunderbuss was a large piece of bar stock I was given several years ago and the fact that they have a short barrel. If you follow my post from the beginning, you'll see that I filled two garbage cans with lathe turnings. My lathe only has a 1" quill stock and I don't have a mandrel, so I had to get creative to turn that large a piece. I bought the lock, breach plug and tang on e-Bay so, you've already got a good start there. The rest of the small parts, except for trigger guard I made. The stock was a piece of Mahogany gifted by a friend. I'm on the home stretch now and so far, I'm pretty happy with the results.
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Be sure to draw a center line the full length of your stock. I drifted a bit on my first try and had to start over.
Mine is an inherited 50's Craftsman, but I'm not making watches..Man, I need to get a lathe and try something like this. I need a fowler to compliment my arsenal. ;p