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    Baker Rifle powder horn (build)

    I could really do with some thoughts on how the spring latch on this powder horn should be finished and fitted: I “think” I may have an idea of how it should be but I can’t say that I’m completely confident.... I’ve been cleaning up the castings (and managed to slip when cutting off the sprue...
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    Baker Rifle powder horn (build)

    Has anyone here built a TRS Baker Rifle Powder Horn or have any pictures of one built from the castings? I’ve just received the Rifle Shoppe castings for the Baker Rifle powder horn but, as is usual, no drawings, instructions or example of how these parts should go together. This is the...
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    Baker rifle powder horn

    I’ve just received the Baker Rifle Powder Horn castings from The Rifle Shoppe if you’re still wanting a look at them:
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    Baker rifle and touch hole liner

    Thanks for going to the trouble of explaining that, it is indeed quite interesting. I’m not sure that there is any sort of "inner shoulder" for the breech plug in the Baker barrel other than where the tapping for the plug thread ends. A borescope shot that I took early on to see if the V had...
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    Baker rifle and touch hole liner

    I’ve no doubt that you’d know much better than I do as this is my first and only flintlock build so far, but I’d be very interested to know why.
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    Baker rifle and touch hole liner

    It’s not a modification, it’s simply an integral part of the build and, as I said above, is according to the plan so there are no ignition problems and in all fairness I can’t imagine any reason why there would be any issues when built to plan. I haven’t experimented with different ball sizes...
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    Baker rifle and touch hole liner

    Here’s what I did and it works as well as I could ever want it to. It is just as specified in the plan and there is no practical reason to vary from it - there was a lot more experience in establishing the design initially than we can ever expect to find in this era: I drilled the touchhole...
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    Aging cherry

    I’ve not tried it on cherry but for any timber that I want to accelerate the colour of age I use ammonia fumes - ie a bowl of ammonia inside an airtight container or bag with the timber. Ideally with all areas of the timber that will be visible completely uncovered open to the fumes, so not...
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    Flintlock hammer profile advice...?? Before I make a mistake...

    Thanks Ian. That was just some engineers blue that I applied for the first strike only to see how it fell, I wiped it off with alcohol after that first go but it’s out of sequence in the video
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    Flintlock hammer profile advice...?? Before I make a mistake...

    Thanks Dave. Yes I was thinking much the same - that it’d seem odd for a military rifle that had a reputation for being reliable would be so fussy on flints. Using that shorter flint suggests that the hammer (frizzen) face is actually OK and is dressed about as good as I can get it (as good as...
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    Flintlock hammer profile advice...?? Before I make a mistake...

    I hadn’t tried shorter flints, I’ve been using 1” flints that were recommended and I did try the same ones that were working a few days ago, without success. I do have the leather notched for the cock screw and I have also tried slightly longer flints which worked a few days ago, but not...
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    Flintlock hammer profile advice...?? Before I make a mistake...

    Well....unfortunately I’ve taken a bit of a step backwards with my first attempt at resolving this one, which is really frustrating I’ve opened up the feather spring slightly and re-tempered it so that I’m now getting between 3.5 and 4 lb’s on it (it was 1.2 to 2 lb) and I’ve also dressed the...
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    Flintlock hammer profile advice...?? Before I make a mistake...

    Thanks Ian - I’ll concentrate on the spring as the first priority (you did warn me about it beforehand ☺️ ) and will also give the hammer face a bit of a touch up and re-harden along the way. I’ll need to head down to the range and do some lead mining though, I’ve turned what I had into ball so...
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    Flintlock hammer profile advice...?? Before I make a mistake...

    Ian H did question the same thing when I did a thread on why my lock wasn’t fully closing Flintlock not fully striking/closing...any suggestions??, so I’ll have another look at hardening it up a little. It’s a difficult one to weigh cleanly with the trigger pull gauge because of the shape but...
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    Flintlock hammer profile advice...?? Before I make a mistake...

    I figured the same though I am still getting good spark and strikes initially. Either way I’ll re-case harden it when I re-profile and re-dress it and maybe give it a couple more cycles of hardening.
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