Get something working with a good crystal first.

A Google search (Colpitts Crystal oscillator circuits) turned up lots of
gate oscillators. This has the type of transistor oscillators I am used to
using:

http://hem.passagen.se/communication/txo.html

There are many other references at:
http://users.telenet.be/educypedia/e...osciltypes.htm


I don't like this circuit:
http://www.electronics-tutorials.com...scillators.htm