{"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":"2023-01-09T17:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:28:36","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ron Luckenbill in his shop<\/em><\/p>\n

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 “Land of Endless Mountains.” 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. 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’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. 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. (B<\/strong>efore C<\/strong>hildren and A<\/strong>fter 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

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

Feel free to contact me at (814) 486-1809, EMAIL<\/a>, or enter your information below…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Luckenbill in his shop 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 “Land of Endless Mountains.” In our area we harvest some of the finest curly maple available.\u00a0 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","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"}],"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":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/www.recreatinghistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/1422"}],"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}]}}