WHAT AN INDIAN MUSKET CAN BE MADE TO LOOK LIKE! 1766 Charleville update

[@Florida_frontiersman]

That looks AWSOME!

[@Oxmanfarmer]

Great work, love the video and the old firelocks you show.

[@Real11BangBang]

Glad you enjoyed

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Nicely done. Looking much better!

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks

[@free_at_last8141]

Beautiful!

[@Real11BangBang]

Thank you!

[@wganz]

One of your best videos.

[@Real11BangBang]

Wow, thanks!

[@Squib1911]

That's a lot of work. The musket looks great.

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks squib!

[@johnnottahcal5725]

One can see and feel the love poured in! She’s looks so much more ol’ timey and yet still ready for Redcoats! 😊

[@KrisK-i4f]

You do pretty work !

[@Real11BangBang]

Thank you!

[@TheGunfighter45acp]

Wow! Ol' Char looks fantastic! 👍👍 I can definitely see it was a labor of love. Poor Bess will now want a spa day. The rivalry never ends. 😅

[@Real11BangBang]

Never lol

[@a.r.m.4you182]

That came out great! I noticed the stock immediately and was wondering what you did different. Lovin it. 👍

[@jeremyp2295]

Man that is a great job it turned out really well. I love getting to make something look more historically correct. Between the research and doing the work it's as close as I can get to a time machine and it is a lot like talking shop with the makers. I think you have inspired my next project.

[@Real11BangBang]

Yes, that is what I should have mentioned and now you mention it. I think that's the reason why I like working on these old guns as much as I do. It's because you get to actually see what the gun smiths back in the day we're doing, how they put things together, how they made them work and how they made them feel. Thank you for pointing that out

[@earlshaner4441]

Good morning from Syracuse NY brother and everyone else

[@mrwdpkr5851]

Good Morning !

[@earlshaner4441]

Ok my friend

[@franzputsch254]

What an amazing effort. It looks great to carry.

[@Real11BangBang]

Thank you and yes It really is! I forgot to mention on this video but shaving the wood down alone took this gun down to about 8 lb

[@musketman2008]

So amazing!

[@Real11BangBang]

Thank you!!

[@allencampbell4460]

Great job.

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks!

[@ericbrabham3640]

Rifle looks awesome. You sound like me with those early morning experiments working on guns.

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks and yes I do like to experiment with firearms quite a bit

[@noapologizes2018]

Beautiful work. I might need to try those techniques on my Military Heritage Lorenz. I do have the 1866 Military Heritage Charleville Marine, with lots of brass fittings. I refinished the stock with True Oil. She does not look period, not like your beautiful Char. I call her blonde, because the light wood finish along with the brass hardware makes her a blonde bomb shell. Great work, Ethan. . . .

[@ronrobertson59]

I been temped to buy an Indian Made musket. I like the Tulle De Chasse and the French 1766.

[@carlericvonkleistiii2188]

Very nice video! I enjoyed hearing about your creative process, and the result is something you can justifiably be proud of.

[@Real11BangBang]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@earlshaner4441]

Thank you for sharing your muzzleloader and some facts

[@Real11BangBang]

You're welcome

[@earlshaner4441]

I enjoy the videos and share with friends

[@daveyjoweaver6282]

A Lovely job indeed! You can be proud of that beauty! Kind Thanks and Many Blessings! And keep some powder muzzled so we can see that personalized Lovely do her thing! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania

[@A.R.American1]

Hey glad to see you back buddy. Looks good to me but I dont know nothing about muzzle loading rifles.

[@hazcat640]

Lookin' good!

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks

[@JamesThomas-gg6il]

I know its not historically correct, but on a lot of refinishing wood tools or guns or even some furniture, that specific reddish brown that M1 Garands turn into after lonseed oiling is what i seem to lean towards. Just love the color. I've done old sewing machine cabinets, enfields, knife and D guard bowie handles, even a USMC corpmans knife handle. Also some leather touch up with it. I know ill get a hard time but , i like what i like.

[@Real11BangBang]

Nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, a lot of people say that these old muskets were historically kind of a plain walnut brown, but after owning a few originals, I can tell you that the wood has a very distinct reddish tint to it. Not too far off from what you see here with the aqua Fortis

[@muralist1]

Nice work.

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks!

[@martinkavanagh196]

Thank you Ethan - thats an excellent video. Your gun is beautiful .. I'd say that you have 'finessed' it. Best wishes to all at 11BangBang from NZ.

[@lyonforge3077]

Looks awesome, I like the color, did you start to think it would have been easier to buy a new stock blank and start from scratch? Hahaha, worth the effort .

[@Real11BangBang]

Yes, at certain points I started to think so and at certain points I had thought that I my have ruined it but I'm glad I stuck to the original

[@karsonbranham3900]

Paste wax or not, it is a good looking piece!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Beauty of a rifle!

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks Santee

[@fishingdog1]

Very nice video enjoy all your videos and your channel very much I am curious on this particular video on this particular gun 1766 did you line the touch hole with a new touch hole liner ,did you have to drill and tap the barrel to install the touch hole liner thank you I'll go back to watching the rest of the video now

[@Real11BangBang]

Yes, this was my first flintlock I ever owned and I drilled the touch hole too low. So I drilled a larger hole tapped it and put a touch hole liner in it

[@williamschlosser77]

Good 🌄!

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks

[@caesar4880]

I did the same thing with a musket from Veteran arms. They said it was a fusil de chasse but after reading a lot french tulle muskets it is really a french common musket of 1695 or so.

[@sabrewolf89]

I was thinking of buying a Paget and then replacing the curvy ramrod hinge thingys instead of heading and stretching as you did. Rifle Shop trigger guards are also pretty cheap.

[@Cj12sings]

Well done..!!!

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks

[@dianehuston1721]

You did a awesome job on ol Char. Looks gorgeous.

[@Real11BangBang]

Thank you so much!

[@revere0311]

Absolutely beautiful. It looks great! I want to follow your lead, Did you just use a wood file and sand paper to get that stock down? Also I'm curious on the weight of the piece after all that wood was shaved off.

[@Real11BangBang]

So I actually used a farriers A lot of the time to hog off some of this wood and then I went down to files and then down to sandpaper and then to scrapers

[@millcreekrange]

Lot’s of work, but definitely worth it. 👍

[@reistsolardown]

What is the exact name of the book? I have a '66 Char coming this month. I want to work on it also. So anything helps

[@Real11BangBang]

www.amazon.com/French-Military-Small-Didier-Bianchi/dp/1931464650

[@aceroadholder2185]

Meanwhile at the Charleville Arsenal in 1766 one gunsmith says to the other " ya' know, 258 years from now people will be trying to figure out what we did.'"

[@williamkoppos7039]

I wanted to know about the "U States" brand. Did you make it?

[@Real11BangBang]

I picked up a cheap wood burning kit with brass letter brands and numbers and I took a file and modified the letters a little bit until they looked correct

[@Real11BangBang]

And ask for the IG that was just done with a wood burner and was made to be slightly crude like the original

[@TheGunfighter45acp]

Interesting! ​@@Real11BangBang

[@SteveHeist-i2w]

@@Real11BangBang Ethan, are the letters 3/8" high?

[@ol1guy994]

Yes, wow

[@louisianagray8618]

Looks like you did a lot of work to that one but she really looks good Ethan

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks, Louisiana

[@jasoncook5690]

Question why not get a new rifle shop stock? Besides monies 😅

[@Real11BangBang]

Because I could carve the old stock down to basically the right shape cookie without having to spend any money 😆

[@KSUJedi]

Sorry if i missed you saying in video, but did you replace the buttplate with a rifle shop part, or somehow hammer that sharp right angled indian original into a more proper and curved shape?

[@Real11BangBang]

So I took a file and I filed the butt plate and the wood together more into the rounded shape. But I'm actually considering taking and getting a 1766 butt plate for the simple fact that not only is it rounded around the edges of the top, it also should be rounded right at the tip of the heel

[@KSUJedi]

@@Real11BangBang Thanks, good info, and looks a whole lot better than the original irregardless! Have a MH blunderbuss and matchlock that I don't mind the flat shape and angles so much being more primitive pieces, but wanting a 1795 Springfield which has that same 2x4 like rear end look that is much more out of place on what should be a much more elegant Charleville/Springfield and has kinda been my biggest hangup on not pulling the trigger yet, but your fine work gives inspiration!

[@CaptRons18thcentury]

Good job Ethan…

[@Real11BangBang]

Thanks Cap!!!

[@fhorst41]

It kind of sounds like you've replaced everything but the breech plug... in which case, is it really the same gun?

[@Real11BangBang]

Here is a list of the parts that I replaced. Front barrel, middle barrel band, mainspring, trigger spring, feather spring and hammer aka frison everything else is still original to the gun. The stock, barrel, butt plate, lock, (minus springs and hammer) rammer, cock, rear barrel band, trigger, trigger guard and all the other internals are still original.

[@Therealravencry]

It's good work, revolutionary Theseus

[@woodsmokegary5150]

Were can a guy find away to convert that musket in to a cap lock

[@danielpowell1637]

how did you get the barrel to look like that. mine just has this fake shine (almost like a coating on it)?

[@ronrobertson59]

Raw linseed is better I've used it for decades and I use water base stains they soak into the wood better.

[@Real11BangBang]

Yeah here lately I have switched to 100% pure tongue oil. It takes a little longer but it gives a much better finish

[@generalgrant2003]

Maybe you should start a defarbing service

[@Real11BangBang]

Might be something to think about

[@hillbillynick2000]

Turned out great! Good old project creep got you, did it?😂

[@Real11BangBang]

Yep it sure did, hence why it took a year to get this far because I've got about 15 other black powder projects in the works lol

[@hillbillynick2000]

Oh I feel that lol