{"id":8,"date":"2012-08-25T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T14:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-10-23T21:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:04:59","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mvlr6vxw-1424dcb8607ce11fbdce5cb7a4d71f86\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mvlr6vxw-1424dcb8607ce11fbdce5cb7a4d71f86 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mvlr6vxw-1424dcb8607ce11fbdce5cb7a4d71f86 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mvlr6vxw-1424dcb8607ce11fbdce5cb7a4d71f86 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-218 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-218 avia_image ' src=\"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/RLBWShop.jpg\" alt='' title='RLBWShop'  height=\"389\" width=\"495\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/RLBWShop.jpg 1839w, http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/RLBWShop-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/RLBWShop-1024x804.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mvlr2izx-7143f3bebafd3e29bc076459c27ceda4 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-2-color has-base-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ron Luckenbill in his shop<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p class=\"wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">I would like to introduce you to myself and my special interest, Recreating History. My name is Ron Luckenbill and I am located in north central Pennsylvania in the &#8220;Land of Endless Mountains.&#8221; In our area we harvest some of the finest curly maple available.\u00a0 As of 2023, I retired from building muzzleloaders, but for decades, I personally selected my blanks and processed them into finished guns.<\/p>\n<p>I worked alone in my shop and produced about a dozen quality longrifles a year. I learned stock making from my father. As a young man most of my time was spent working on modern guns. In the mid 1960&#8217;s, my career took me to the Allentown, Pennsylvania area, and there I was introduced to longrifles and was hooked. I started building longrifles using locks supplied by Russ Hamm and barrels from Bill Large.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid 1970s, career and family took priority and gunmaking was largely set aside. I often joke that I built guns B.C. and A.C. (<strong>B<\/strong>efore <strong>C<\/strong>hildren and <strong>A<\/strong>fter <strong>C<\/strong>hildren). I was able to retire from my employment in 1995 and had been building full time until 2023. I enjoyed working with the client to produce a longrifle that will often times become a family heirloom. I strived to give value beyond the cost of the project. The satisfaction of my client was my best advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>I built recreations of the fine muzzleloaders of the 17th century through the mid 18th century. Click on the Muzzleloaders tab above to view these.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p class=\"wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">Feel free to contact me at (814) 486-1809, <a title=\"EMAIL\" href=\"mailto:luckenbill@recreatinghistory.com\">EMAIL<\/a>, or enter your information below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}