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    16th-17th Century gunsmithing tools?

    Look for pictures from old books - there are a few showing gunsmiths' and gunfounders' shops. I find Pinterest pretty helpful for a while.
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    Wheellocks, rifled or smoothbore

    The Landeszeughaus armory at Graz has many military quality wheellocks, and some more ornate ones possibly seized from lords on the wrong side of the wars of religion. I peered into a LOT of muzzles there, and did not find one with rifling. Of course if it were coned for loading on horseback...
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    Powder Magazine Accident 1654

    The reason the magazine is inside the town is pretty damn obvious. At that time the whole of Europe had just emerged from the Thrty Years War, and then the first Anglo-Dutch War. Cities were fortified with star fort citadels tooled up with many cannon. To deter or withstand seige, they needed...
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    Inlay and decoration in the pre flintlock era

    The first one with the 'pattern of raised bumps' should be understood as checkering. It is much coarser checkering than we are used to, but it looks like excellent for retention as you handle it - eg reloading on horseback.
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    Great thread idea, TobJohn!
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    “Wheellock Firearms of the Royal Armouries”: By, Graeme Rimer. Thin and inexpensive but very good.
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    Guns and Rifles of the World Blackmore, Howard L. Published by Chancellor Press, 1965 and many other publishers. Absolute classic wth many excellent line drawings of locks and stock profiles
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    Who has seen this? Leonardo, the Wheel Lock, and the Milling Process Author(s): Vernard Foley, Steven Rowley, David F. Cassidy, F. Charles Logan Source: Technology and Culture, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1983), pp. 399-427 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Society for...
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    Pre Flintlock Books

    I would love to get a look at Stockel! Any German speakers here? I am sure there must be some good books in German. I have Art, Arms and Armour : an International Anthology. Vol.1 , 1979-80 / Edited by Robert Held This is truly awesome, with scholarly articles eg on the Italian view of the...
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    Antique Cannon Construction - Sage Advice Needed

    An alternate method of casting which does not use a two-part mold is lost wax casting. This is also the method used since antiquity for bronze sculptures as it was one of the earliest advanced technologies of any civilisation. The advantage of lost wax is that extremely high quality finishes can...
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    That button is unknown to me.
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    I have never much liked tschinke but they are the highest developed external spring locks. Try pinterest for some lovely ones.
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    Dear me, I seem to be on a roll. These come from European Arms and Armour vikingsword.com the work I think of the amazing Michael Tromner.
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    One of the type in Rimer's book, clearly ex Royal Armouries website
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    A few pictures from my visit about 2012 I really tried to get photos that showed how deep the parts were. Most photos are square from the side.
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