No Room For The Ham-Fisted

[FishDFly]

Borrowed this from the ALR Site.


Thought you fellas would like to see this. I enjoyed it. Lots of tricky details, you have to be very careful in handling these.

Démontage des pistolets préférés de Napoléon !

 

[rchas]

wow...... I can't imagine the number of hours of pain-staking labor invested in those pistols.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Borrowed this from the ALR Site.


Thought you fellas would like to see this. I enjoyed it. Lots of tricky details, you have to be very careful in handling these.

Démontage des pistolets préférés de Napoléon !

Amazing images...

Um..., why are there French subtitles for the well spoken woman who is speaking French? Are there a lot of hearing impaired folks that speak French and see this ???

LD

 

[andy52]

Nicolas Boutet made many gorgeous firearms and was said to be the best gunmaker of his time. I've seen some of his SxS flinters that are beath taking beautiful and cost 10s of thousands of dollars.

 

[FishDFly]

Wonder how many hours he put into each pistol?

 

[andy52]

Wonder how many hours he put into each pistol?

He had a full-scale shop at Versalles with many workers, his designs, but more than one person making the guns.

 

[Brazos John]

Tres bien, Señor!
They sure are pretty, but my 2 years of Francaise en ecole didn't help me to keep up with the comments.
Money sure could buy cool things way back then, just like now!
Thanks for the link.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

Ham fisted...A term applied to radio telegraph operators for being to heavy on the key.....just thought I would throw this in...

 

[andy52]

Boutet started out as a gunmaker to Louis XVI and after the French revolution, Napoleon decided Boutet was too good to let get away and made him his gunmaker.

 

[FishDFly]

With his talent he did not have to worry about being laid off.

 

[andy52]

With his talent he did not have to worry about being laid off.

Agreed.

 

[Acorn Mush]

Breathtakingly beautiful, exquisite works of art! It was a bit uncomfortable seeing the screwdriver and punches being used though.

 

[shorthair]

wow...... I can't imagine the number of hours of pain-staking labor invested in those pistols.

And the penalty for a mistake was probably pretty high.