Installed nosecap and the ramrod tip:

End of the stock was shaped down to allow the nosecap to be slid onto the stock.  This was a tight fit and Brian had to put it on, pull it off and reinstall several times.

He used a file to remove the black soot marks the nosecap left on the wood. 

Eventually the nose cap fit tight up against the wood and along the sides of the barrel. 

Once this was accomplished, a hole was drilled thru the nosecap and and the stock. A copper rivet will be inserted thru the hole. 

 To make it easier to inlet, the round head of the rivet was squared to fit within the bottom flat in the barrel channel. Then the rivet was inletted flush with the bottom of the barrel channel. 

  A countersunk tool was used on the outside exposed edge of the rivet hole prior to placing the rivet into the nose cap. Now when the rivet is peened into place, the copper can expand and fill this voided area around the hole. This rivets the cap to the stock.  Note, prior to peening, the height of the rivet was 1/8" high. 

After the rivet was peened, Brian filed on the rivet to make it disappear. 

  The photo to the left is the finished nosecap and the ramrod tip was fitted onto the end of the ramrod, then a 3/32" pin was used a rivet to pin it to the ramrod.  If you look closely, you can see the rivet. 

(Note if you click on all the photos, they will open up larger in size. ) 

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