Kibler Kit Workshop with Gary Ludwig - 

February 15 - 20 - the February class has filled

September  21- 26 

October 19 - 24  - Hawken kit only

Beginners are welcome!  6 day workshop. $725 class fee includes your materials fee. The price does not include the cost of your tools or your rifle kit.  

..So maybe you're a novice interested in building a longrifle, but you feel you may not have the necessary skills to do the job? Or perhaps you have built a kit gun or two before, but you'd like to learn some new techniques to sharpen your skills... either way, Gary Ludwig's Kibler Kit Workshop may be exactly what you need.

This is a hands - on class where you will learn how to build your own muzzleloading rifle. The class will take place at the midwest's bastion of the American longrifle culture - the Log Cabin Sport Shop in Lodi, Ohio.  Participants will learn proper kit construction, plus a variety of finishing techniques for wood and metal, effective use of hand tools, lock and set trigger assembly, custom touches to personalize your gun, and much more!

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Gary Ludwig started building muzzleloaders in 2013 when he was invited to attend the Gunmakers Seminar at Canter's Cave. He attended the seminar for many years afterwards gaining valuable experience under the tutelage of Hershel and John House, Jim Kibler, Ken Gahagan and Ian Pratt. Later, Gary took many other classes offered by the Southern Ohio Artisan Workshops including knifemaking with Hershel and John House, Belt Axe Making with rich McDonald, Engraving with Tom Curran, Southern Banded Powder Horns with Billy Griner, Fire Steel Making with Ian Pratt, and Flintknapping with Johnny Faulkner. More recently he has attended classes at the Goshen Historical Society School of Blacksmithing including Forging Iron Gun Mounts withe Frank House and Joe Seabolt. He has also attended other gunmaking classes including the gunbuilding and metal engraving classes with Brad and Shane Emig at Cabin Creek and the NMLRA Gunsmithing Seminar with Frank House.

Gary teaches several Kibler Kit classes annually for Southern Ohio Artisan Workshops. He and Jeff Tebay are instructors for one of the classes in SOAW's annual Gunmakers' Workshop, and he joins fellow instructors Ian Pratt and John House in teaching the Hershel House Woodbury School Foundation's annual Foxfire rifle building class at the home of Hershel House in Woodbury, Kentucky. 

When he isn't building guns or accoutrements, Gary spends time promoting the Southern Ohio Artisan Workshops whenever and wherever he can. He also designs and sells SOAW merchandise. The profits are used to fund our scholarships, buy tools and equipment that are shared between the various SOAW classes, or to support other efforts related to SOAW's mission.