North Star West, Inc. is a manufacturing company that supplies component parts, kits and finished British Pattern trade guns, muskets, and related supplies.
North Star West, Inc. trade gun and musket kits contain everything needed to build your gun except sandpaper and elbow grease. All kits include walnut stocks that are inlett for the lock, barrel and trigger. The sto
ck is approximately 90% shaped and smoothed. The ramrod hole is drilled to the proper depth. Our stocks are shaped by Red Brush Stocks, a top quality American company.
All barrels are breeched at our plant. All required exterior details: flats, bands, stamps, etc. are done for each specific style of gun. Solder-on type underlugs are included in our kits. The breech tang is dovetail shape like original British Pattern trade guns. We use only modern gun barrel steel, made in the U.S.A. We offer barrels in 10" (for pistols) 20", 30", 36", and 41" lengths. Gages available are 28 ga (.54 cal), 24 ga (.58 cal), and 20 ga (.62 cal). Our Officer’s Model Musket uses a round 16 gage (.668”) barrel with a straight tang.
We manufacture and assemble our own locks made from our molds. Our locks are direct copies of original Barnett, Ketland, and Whately flintlocks. We temper our own springs in order to have better quality control. Each part is cast especially for us, using our molds, by a top quality American foundry. We have our own wax machine, for complete control over the quality of our cast parts. We guarantee them to spark and function for life.
Guns supplied "In The White" are fully assembled and ready to fire. The metal parts are sanded to 180 grit. These guns need to be disassembled, final sanding and prepping done and the desired finish applied to both metal and wood parts. A 1 oz. bottle of "Tru Oil®" stock finish is supplied for the wood parts and a browning solution supplied for the metal parts.
Finished Guns are shipped ready for use. Steel parts are blued or browned (buyer's choice) and the wood is finished to a hand rubbed semi-gloss. As all of our guns are built one at a time, we have some latitude in the area of finish. We do, however strive to produce historically correct guns.
Customer Service for our customers is our first priority! We encourage you to call the shop if you ever have questions or comments on your North Star West, Inc. finished gun or kit. Please also visit our Catalog to configure your Custom Gun or view our extensive Parts List.
