VON ASCHWEGE FLINTLOCKS
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    • Artist's Statement
  • Plans
  • Restoration
    • Barbar Queen Anne Pistol
    • Bezaleel Taft Fowler
    • English Fowler Reconversion
    • Dole, New England Fowler
    • Thomas Earle, Massachusetts Fowler
    • English Light Dragoon Pistol
    • Miquelet Lock
    • J. Shriver Smooth Rifle
    • Vallee London SxS Shotgun
    • Merchant Vessel Pistol
    • German Dragoon, M 1763
  • Gallery
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    • Early Colonial Rifle
    • George Schreyer
    • J.P. Beck
    • Jacob Kuntz
    • Stoffel Long, Lehigh Valley
    • John Moll
    • Lehigh Valley Barn Rifles >
      • Lehigh Barn Rifle
      • Lehigh Barn Rifle II
    • Appalachian Rifle
    • Thomas Earle Fowler
    • American Pistols
    • European Pistols
    • Matchlocks
    • Tomahawks
  • For Sale
  • Tutorials
    • Eric's Carving Tutorial
    • Red Violin Varnish
    • Silver Front Sight
    • Brass Pistol Buttcap
    • Lehigh Valley Details
    • Tab and Lug repair
    • Silver Inlay
    • Silver Barrel Escutcheon
  • Contact
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​John Moll Sr., Lehigh Valley


Lehigh Valley rifle by John Moll, similar to Rupp and Neihart
The original rifle by Johannes Moll that inspired this build is a large and stout piece, however the excellent architecture and a few building tricks help make it feel quite a lot slimmer than it really is.  Moll, a contemporary of Rupp and Neihart, produced a few early and somewhat large guns still in existence today.  His work can be seen as a transitional example from the earlier and larger Christians Spring rifles into the graceful and slender Lehigh Valley style.  The original rifle has a heavy orange color varnish finish, while this has a red violin varnish madder pigment mulled into mastic varnish.  Originally built "as new", it has mellowed and developed a wonderful patina with age and use, the linseed oil-based varnish darkening with time.   This was my first rifle stocked from a blank, in 2006.


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  • About
    • Artist's Statement
  • Plans
  • Restoration
    • Barbar Queen Anne Pistol
    • Bezaleel Taft Fowler
    • English Fowler Reconversion
    • Dole, New England Fowler
    • Thomas Earle, Massachusetts Fowler
    • English Light Dragoon Pistol
    • Miquelet Lock
    • J. Shriver Smooth Rifle
    • Vallee London SxS Shotgun
    • Merchant Vessel Pistol
    • German Dragoon, M 1763
  • Gallery
    • Thomas Simpson Rifle
    • Early Colonial Rifle
    • George Schreyer
    • J.P. Beck
    • Jacob Kuntz
    • Stoffel Long, Lehigh Valley
    • John Moll
    • Lehigh Valley Barn Rifles >
      • Lehigh Barn Rifle
      • Lehigh Barn Rifle II
    • Appalachian Rifle
    • Thomas Earle Fowler
    • American Pistols
    • European Pistols
    • Matchlocks
    • Tomahawks
  • For Sale
  • Tutorials
    • Eric's Carving Tutorial
    • Red Violin Varnish
    • Silver Front Sight
    • Brass Pistol Buttcap
    • Lehigh Valley Details
    • Tab and Lug repair
    • Silver Inlay
    • Silver Barrel Escutcheon
  • Contact
    • Master of Arms
    • Links