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  1. J

    Cannon projectiles

    Paul, we regularly shoot mini-cannon competitions at our club. We always treat them just like black powder handguns, and use patched lead balls. Windage is only really an issue once you get above, say, an inch bore....
  2. J

    wooden spoons

    I've carved many spoons over the years; I find it therapeutic and very satisfying to create something beautiful you can use every day. Here's some 18thC and earlier styles - I've used beech, ash, cherry, pear, sycamore, even oak. These are around 9" long: Here's two large (14") serving spoons...
  3. J

    Cleaning cannons

    It's also very important, when the water in the barrel is nice and black and sulphurous, to push the mop in hard, shout 'thar she blows' and send a fountain of dirty, smelly water up out of the touch hole and all over the otherwise distracted gun captain. Try it, you know you want to....
  4. J

    Swivel gun

    Great! We need pics! I did another public event over the weekend. As usual, there was lots of interest, and scores of young'uns wanted to have a go firing it (I even had to double up, and have two kids holding on to the tiller at once, to keep up with the demand). They even got to fire a...
  5. J

    Swivel gun

    We're a bit spoilt for castles here, on the borderland with Scotland, due to centuries of having to defend ourselves from Scots invaders. I live 5 mins drive from Brancepeth Castle, 15 mins from Durham Castle (& cathedral), also Auckland Castle and Witton Castle, 35 mins from Raby Castle and...
  6. J

    Swivel gun

    One of the unexpected, but very welcome, side effects of owning this kind of portable artillery is that, as word gets around, people from all over the place want you to star in their events. In the past few weeks, I have been asked to celebrate the opening of an exhibition at the Northumberland...
  7. J

    Swivel Cannon mounts

    Sorry PP, should have replied sooner but been very busy - the 'legs' of the stand are 36"/3' across (I originally made them 48"/4' but this would have been too wide to easily fit in the boot of my car!). The central column is 30" tall (plus the end cap and bottom spigot). The proportions look...
  8. J

    Swivel Cannon mounts

    Just to give you a few more details on the construction of my stand, here's a pic of it disassembled for transport: Basically, you just need to take out the through bolt half way up the post (that holds one set of brackets to it), then unscrew the 1" castle nut at the bottom underside...
  9. J

    Swivel gun

    PP - As promised, here are my tools. All have hardwood shafts. There's a worm (adapted from a drain-rodding worm, shortened, sharpened etc.), a wet mop and a dry mop (with coarse wool felt wadding) and a ramrod with an ash head. The last tool is my cleaning/scouring/oiling stick....
  10. J

    Swivel gun

    Foil charges - I used to do exactly as you do, plastic (anti-static) bags wrapped in foil. However, there has been a noticeable move away from this over here (in the UK) from a Health and Safety standpoint as the H&S munchkins object to the idea of blasting molten aluminium in the general...
  11. J

    Swivel gun

    Here's a shot of my 'everyday' artillery boxes - I make them in all kinds of sizes and weights - these are a little over a foot long and made from 9mm marine ply (the one above is twice that thickness, from pine, and much larger, and heavier). All the steelwork is adapted from commercially...
  12. J

    Swivel gun

    Today, I also made up another batch of 1 & 1/2 oz charges for a forthcoming demonstration. As usual, these are three-ply 80gsm paper (aluminium foil charges are very much frowned upon over here).
  13. J

    Swivel gun

    PP - the tools I made myself, they're pretty straightforward, I'll take some pics as soon as I get some time. As for the powder etc. boxes, I made a pair like this, based on early artillery boxes from the late medieval period, because I like the angular shape (although getting all those angles...
  14. J

    Swivel gun

    This is how we bust clays in my club - none of these new-fangled side-by-sides or over/unders: Link And another, if in doubt, fill the sky with lead.... Link
  15. J

    Swivel gun

    I have no idea what steel it is made from....I trusted entirely the experience of the professional cannon builder (with over 30 years experience) who made it. More importantly, and unlike you guys in the US, we cannot buy this kind of ordnance without it first having been proofed by a National...
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