Back at work and ready for the spring event season.  Had to miss Ft. Dobbs as the doctor had not cleared me to travel yet and that is a shame as I was looking forward to the War for Empire.  Still, I am cleared to get back out in the shop and make some sawdust.  I have several projects that have been brewing so I will start posting pictures as I get them,

I have an early Southern rifle (think Woodbury style) on the bench right now, with a fairly plain sugar maple stock and a Chambers round faced Colonial Va. style lock.  I have the barrel in, the lock in, the trigger in and yesterday I finished the buttplate.  Need to button everything down and get the sideplate on.  Will try to get Aaron out to take pictures this week.  Should make someone a nice hunting rifle.

I am working on 4 French and Indian horns, all plugged and shaped and ready to scratch on.  One will be filled with religious symbolism with Easter around the corner, one a fairly simple motif with floral decorations and a few words of wisdom, one a rather large simple horn and and another double twist with engrailed throat and fancy spout I plan for a map horn.  Not sure of the map, have been wanting to do a Ft. Pitt or Cherokee country horn for a while but the jury is still out on that.

I have four knives blades that need handles and I want to do bone handles because I have a pile of deer femurs that need to be used.  These are mainly scalpers but I would also like to have a couple rifleman's knives for Fort Fred.

I have a stack of linen pouches I made while recuperating from surgery.  These need to be tin clothed and dyed.  Plus a new endeavor, I have 4 long hunter linen shirts, size large and 1 size medium that I want to put up on the table at Ft. Frederick and Martin's Station.  I have 4 more cut out that I need to get too this month.

As you can see I am plenty busy and I am not counting the gun orders I have in the queue.  Right now I am 6-8 months on those, the Woodbury above, an officer's fusil, a dragoon pistol, another Woodbury and a Christian Springs.  I also have a Peter Angstadt, ala Eric Kettenburg that I am making for myself lurking around the shop that gets attention now and then that I thought I'd make a photo series about.  Then there are the dueling pistols I have been coaxing along for the last two years.

 Hope to see you as an event this year, come by and let me see you and be sure to think of us for that project you have in mind.