In this video, Mike shares how he adds detail to his flintlocks by carving some traditional details around the entry pipe of his Isaac Haines inspired longrifle.
The tools used in this process are simple and appropriate for the time. They include files, scrapers, skew chisels, and V chisels.
0:00 Establishing the Sides
3:18 Scraper Details
3:35 Chisel Clean Up
3:40 Scroll Layout in Pencil
3:53 Relationships in Design
4:30 The Pencil I'm Using & Why
5:29 Getting the Design Close, not Copying
6:32 Carving the Outside Lines
10:45 Background Removal
13:20 Grain Structure and how it Effects Carving
15:30 Directional Carving
16:38 My Magnification
17:17 Carving the Detail/Shade Lines
18:51 The Finished Carving & Recap
This build has been Mike's winter project. Having never built his own personal flintlock rifle, he took some time to build one for himself to get ready for the 2021 muzzleloading season.
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Free Carving Patterns- https://mailchi.mp/55a78b585b18/irfsignup
Iron Ram Forge is a blacksmith shop run by father and son pair Mike and Ethan Yazel. The duo operates out of their dual story workshop they built together on the family farm. In the basement, they work in the hot shop with metal and glass, on the second story they work with wood to make carvings and furniture as well as fine hand engraving for jewelry and historic accouterments.
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