Picked up the first parts of my project yesterday. Nicely roughed out Lehigh-shaped precarved curly (very curly!) maple stock and a 44" swamped 54 cal Green Mountain barrel.

With a blizzard bearing down on this part of the world tonight into tomorrow, I think I may start on the breech plug while snowed in and get that fitted up nice and tight.

The barrel is inlet, but it looks like a little tweaking might need to happen yet until the barrel channel is truly "done".