While attending the Mason/Dixon Muzzle Loader's Builder's Fair, 15 or 20 years ago, I came across a barrel cut-off for sale. I thought it looked like a dandy build for a pistol. Bought it for $5 and carried it around until I met Mr. Getz (the elder) who is a renowned barrel maker. His son, I hear, has subsequently taken over the business. After an enjoyable conversation with Mr. Getz, he agreed to breach the barrel and instal a drum. I think he charged me $20 for everything. Whoo Hoo. Then, as it happens so often, life got in the way and this project was tossed in a box and forgotten. About 5 years ago I found my old barrel and decided to move on it. Bought a Davis lock and trigger, and then put it back in my box, and there it sat. It cluttered up my bench for a few years and then I started reading a thread here on Castboolits about LAGS, and his homeric efforts to repair a "Bubba'd Up Barrel". I followed the thread and upon contacting LAGS, he agreed to take my box of parts and apply some LAGS magic to make a ML pistol. I sent along a chunk of SAPELE ( a really hard African wood ) I had left over from a fireplace mantle I made for a friend. Below I've attempted to add pictures of the build. LAGS designed the details, cut + shaped the stock, welded improvements to the trigger, fabricated parts, inlaid the breach and trigger, drilled + tapped the drum for the nipple, browned the metal and made it all come together!
Video of the pistol working came be seen on the tail end of armoredman's thread about Bubba Barrel repair.
All I can say is "Thank you, LAGS". Turned out great. Geometry is perfect. Hammer strikes plumb & square. Loads easy and shoots true.
I teach muzzle loading / gun safety / history at a boy's & girls summer camp and this pistol will become a permanent, living teaching aid when I'm not using it at home.
Thanks, LAGS