Patrick - I got lucky I think; the bones were good or it could have been a real money pit....please get a reliable smith to vet your project before diving in.
Joe Wood - I really stumbled onto the smith who's shop did the work by happenstance. They normally only work for the "trade" and asked that I not publicize his involvement with the project. I think he either took pity on me as a neophyte hammer gun owner, or he would have regretted having not stepping were I to totally have botched it up. He personally owns nothing made after 1900. I have to honor his request.
Here is one more pix everyone might find interesting...the original butt plate was horn and had a Widow's Peak....I didn't want to cut the wood and have to put on an outsized pad for the scale of the gun....check out what he managed to do!
