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50 Years of Custom Rifles Custom Muzzleloaders, Gun Restoration

Custom Stockmaking

Muzzleloader Kit Builds

Full Relief Carving

New rifle builds using your preferred barreled actions and calibers. Premium walnut blanks are sized (length of pull, cast-on/cast-off, comb & heel drops), and hand-rubbed oil finishes and hardware options including skeleton butt plates and grip caps, inset sling swivels, fine hand checkering, carvings, bedding and floating barrels.

Stock carving, incised carving, relief carving stock refinishing hand-rubbed linseed oil finishing

Full Relief Carving

Muzzleloader Kit Builds

Full Relief Carving

Whether commemorating the first kill of your hunting rifle, or adding that personalization to your Citori, name it, and it shall be done - in 3D. Full designs and overlay on photographs of your stocks get your full approval before chisel touches wood. See  guidelines and pricing below. Custom Rifles Custom Muzzleloaders

Kibler Pedersoli Chambers Dixie Tennessee Valley Traditions Sitting Fox Track of the wolf Kit Build

Muzzleloader Kit Builds

Muzzleloader Kit Builds

Muzzleloader Kit Builds

Colonial America was 100s of flintlock and percussion long-rifles designs ranging from Trade rifles to Hawkens. I build your kit modeled after period-accurate detail, and finishes ranging from "like new" to full wood-metal antiquing you'd see on a 150 year old mountain gun. Traditional Muzzleloaders and Muzzleloader kit Builder Custom Rifles Custom Muzzleloaders

Firearm Repair and Restoration, Cracked Stocks, Refinishing, re-checkering, museum guns restoration

Repair • Restoration

Muzzleloader Kit Builds

Muzzleloader Kit Builds

I provide expert repair and refinishing of stocks on your prized heirloom firearms, including museum grade restorations, turnkey wood-metal restoration and original parts replacement. I will duplicate un-repairable stocks with new wood as desired. Custom Rifles Custom Muzzleloaders

Master Gunsmithing & Stockmaking Services

General Terms

Our Custom Rifles Custom Muzzleloaders contract will detail all of our mutually-agreed engagement terms and conditions. Prices below are provided as a GENERAL GUIDELINE of rates charges for typically requested services, and may be higher or lower than the actual fees quoted in the contract.

Hourly Rate

$150

For individual services not described, or for add-on Traditional Muzzleloaders and Muzzleloader kit Builder services once I begin your build. 

Fee Deposits & Parts Cost

50% + Parts

Includes deposit on quotes services + all Custom Rifles Custom Muzzleloaders parts I will be required to purchase on your behalf

Muzzleloader Kit Builds

Traditional Muzzleloaders and Muzzleloader kit Builder: builds are based on standard kits available only from reputable suppliers such as those listed on the www.NMRLA.org website. The pricing below does NOT include the cost of the kit. Many options from kit suppliers can vary build complexity. I will provide a detailed, line-item quotation for review and approval prior to ordering your desired kit.

Standard Kit Build

$1,000

Traditional Muzzleloaders and Muzzleloader kit Builder services Include impeccable metal finishing, precise metal inletting & mountings, length-of-pull stock fitting, period representative stock shaping and architecture and mouldings, various  stain and 6-coat hand-rubbed linseed oil finish: satin to gloss options. Includes one finial carving below the tang.

Carving

$500-$1000

Incised or raised fleur-de-lisor other scrollwork carving on both sides of the Custom Rifles Custom Muzzleloaders stock, forearm, detailed lock mouldings, depending on your specifications.

Add-ons As Requested (varies)

$150 each

Barrel Browning, Brass antiquing / "worn" patina, Stock antiquing, Faux Tiger Striping before finishing, Standard brass / silver / ivory inlays, Complicated Patch Box inletting. 

Classic Rifle Builds (and Custom Re-builds)

***NOTE*** Because of the spiking cost of new barreled actions, and the extreme shortage of desired actions, barrels and calibers, wait times for your desired brand / caliber may be longer than a year. Many clients are now opting to acquire a good-to-excellent condition rifle at a reasonable price from Gunbroker or other source, and engaging me to re-build with a new custom stock and provide top-to-bottom "like new" restoration services for all metal parts. Detailed quotes for your classic rifle

Standard Build (1-piece stocks)

$2,500+

Barreled action is not included in my pricing: Includes impeccable precise metal inletting, barrel bedding, floating barrel, magnum reinforcement if needed, installing butt plate / recoil pad and accessories, exquisite stock sizing, shaping, styling and sharp detail lines, various stain options, and 6-coat hand-rubbed linseed oil finish: satin to gloss options.

High Relief Carving

$700 / panel

Wildlife or similar high relief and incised carving. 

2-piece Stocks (Up-charge)

$250 & up

Will vary depending on whether 2-piece rifle stock, or shotgun stock (over/under, side by side, pumps or auto-loading).

Standard Checkering

$750

4-panel open-field hand checkering up to 22 lines per inch (depends on wood density), and no or standard convex border, oil finished to match stock.

Premium Checkering (as quoted)

$1,200 & up

Fancy checkering up to 28 lines per inch, over-grip or under forend checkering, ribbon patterns, relief-carved borders, and checkering pattern inlays.

Firearm Repair & Restoration

* It is your responsibility to determine whether restoration of your firearm will increase or decrease its value. Investing thousands to bring back an NRA-rated "Good" to "Fair" condition firearm to "Fine" to "Excellent" condition may result in a much nicer piece, but the restoration may actually LOWER the actual market value.

Pre-Restoration Inspection

$200

Prior to any proposal, I conduct a full inspection of your firearm and provide a report on the current condition of wood, metal, parts fit, functional operation, and will alert you to any potential safety hazards (e.g. Damascus barrel shotguns, work sears), A restoration proposal will accompany the report.

Stock Repair Upgrades

See Above

New checkering and carving may be added to your repaired or restored stock. See Checkering and Carving fees above.

Minimum Restoration Service

$1,000

It is impossible to quote a restoration prior to inspection. The $200 inspection fee will be credited to the restoration if you elect to proceed.

Stock Only Repair / Restore

$500

Repair of cracked stocks, dent removal, complete stripping and refinishing, and re-pointing existing checkering.

General Notes: All Custom Rifles Custom Muzzleloaders firearms ship both ways at client cost in accordance with Federal Regulations. In many cases, I will be required to ship your firearm to your local FFL. It is your responsibility to ensure that your receiving of firearms and firearm parts from me complies with your local, State and Federal laws. Full quotations that include design layouts (if applicable) are provided prior to commencing any work. Return times are approximate, and may vary by 1-2 months. Gun builds, restoration or repairs requiring 6 or more months are scheduled in sequence, smaller projects may be fit in concurrent with larger projects. Contact me to discuss your requirements.

A.H. Gibbs Master Stockmaker & Gunsmith

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