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    Spring cleaning the big guns

    The weather can be rough on the big guns. Now that it's springtime, I give them all a good cleaning and a new paint job: This is my 1" bore swivel gun. [/URL][/img] and this is my newest, a 3" bore tube on my old carriage.I had to replace the old wooden axle with a new iron one. It was...
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    1796 pattern light cavalry saber

    A work in progress. My first attempt at forging a sword blade inspired by the 1796 pattern British light cavalry saber. Still have to harden and temper the blade, dye the leather, make the scabbard and shine everything up. [/URL][/img] [/URL]//[/img]
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    Pipe Hawks

    Once in a while, between rifle builds, you just need to play at the forge. This time a few pipe hawks were the result.
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    Swivel Breach

    I began building a swivel breach a few weeks ago. This is a first for me so it took a long time to figure out how to put one together. Having never built a back action lock before, that was the main stumbling block. But I got it together and while not yet very pretty, it works just fine. Once I...
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    Very popular tomahawks???

    Has anyone else experienced this? I forged a couple of pipe tomahawks as gifts for friends and family. word got around and now, young people 18 to 25 who could'nt care less about history or weaponry are grabbing them up as fast as I'm willing to hammer them out. You don't suppose they're...
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    barrel forging with mild steel

    I'm aware of several folks forging wrought iron barrels. Is there anyone out there using mild steel? I have struggled with hammer welding mild steel barrels with varying amounts of success. It acts very differently than wrought iron. Just recently, I tried a process that seems to simplify the...
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    Another cannon build

    I just completed this project after about a year of intermittant work between gunbuilding and blacksmithing projects. It sports a 2" bore and can put a babbit ball through a 12" tree. It is built entirely from scratch, tube, carriage and wheels, right down to the swab bucket. No store bought...
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    Whatever happened to Wild Bill's lock?

    Just an update on that percussion lock I made last week: It's still a work in progress. I put it on a plain piece of maple I had cut from a tree a couple of years ago along with double set trigger, .45 cal barrel, iron furnature, all hand made. The lines are reminiscent of a "Vincent" Ohio rifle...
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    Homemade locks

    Having been recently called a fool and an idiot on this forum because I dont read the "how to" books, temper springs in an oven or use rake tines, exclusively, for forging springs, I feel compelled to share how I do it, anyway. These locks were hand made on a coal forge, entirely, from a piece...
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    Brazing

    The recent "solder chat" has resurected, in my mind at least, an old topic that was never resolved. Anyone can join two pieces of brass together with silver solder, but has anyone had any luck joining brass by brazing with brass? I have tried many times to create an invisible brass "weld", for...
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    Allegheny or Westmoreland Co. rifles

    Does anyone have any photos, or know where I can find photos of Westmoreland or Allegheny County PA rifles, such as Fleeger or Allison? I am currently making the hardware to put one together but I'm working mostly from memory, and one Photo. And my memory just aint what it used to be.
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    Hello the camp

    Just stepped out of the shop to google "dragoon pistols" and stumbled upon you fellers. Thought I'd stop in for a while and see what everybodys talking about. I'm a retired bridge construction project manager. Now I call myself an 18th century tinkerer.
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