Has anyone been able to contact the above recently. I have been calling for weeks and their email address is not responding either. I am looking for some Ballard parts and was hoping they would be a source.

Haven't purchased from him in probably 2 years, but back then a call always got answered. Hope somebody lives near Wellston, Ok. or Oklahoma City and might be able to drop by to check things out? He's just NE of OK City.

I emailed them before Christmas asking about a hammer and fly, but never heard back.   

Jack

I was up at Jesse shop last week. His wife is the one that answers the phone . Mike his son is doing a lot of the work now. Jesse he’s in his mid 70s. He also said now that I making single shot parts. He was going to back off as he has more than he can do with the muzzleloaders.
     I make Casting sets for the 30 different  single shots. So as a result I do have parts . the Ballard ,Hiwall Winchester,Remington rolling block and Sharps are the ones that I have the most parts for. The market is so small that I do not keep much of an inventory. I have not made a list of parts just dont have the time for the fore seeable future. But if I do have it  in stock I’ll be glad to sell it do you. Just sent out a hepburn extractor today. Thanks for your interest.

Rodney,

I’m wondering whether the folks at S&S Firearms in New York have been in touch with you?  I also shoot with the North-South Skirmish Association and they are one of the few companies selling repro parts (formerly from the Rifle Shoppe) to that wing of our hobby, and at last report were still waiting for parts shipments for things like Ballard hammers and levers etc.  this might be another market for your goodies.

BTW, thanks for the levers you sold me recently. They were both exactly what was needed!

Your Friend the Frog

Since Jim at Distant Thunder retired we've had no good resource for Ballard links like he made. His sets of 6 links spaced .001" difference hole to hole were just what you needed to get lockup and firing pins correct. Really need links with various spacing to be able to adjust the lockup, and center the firing pins on the primers. So can't just make up a link based on measurements of an existing sample.
I've been convinced for many years that workers at Marlin had bins full of a variety of different spaced links to choose from when fitting breech blocks to Ballard rifles, and just grabbed a link to try it, and then determined if it was the right hole spacing, or needed different link that was shorter or longer.

Well if Dan's sight was still up I could give his details on spacing. As it is I'd have to pull apart a bunch of Ballard rifles and see if I could get some average, and then figure .001" going 3 over, and 3 under the average. Hole size is easy since I've got brand new screws to get that measurement.
How many sets could be sold is an unknown? I know Dan once said he got a number of guys wanting to buy just one, but not buy the set of 6 pcs. But then if they picked the wrong spacing they'd want to return it and get a different one. I'd bet about half the links he sold were in sets, and singles for the rest. 
His price was I think $20 each, and a small discount for the set of 6.