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    Sign Your Work?

    I only sign my name and the year on the inside of the lock plate.
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    German/Dutch style wheellock cavalry pistol ca.1650

    Slow :) I have two old cars that need fixing. I am working on inner parts. Axel and wheel are next.
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    Pine Tar as a finish

    I use a mix of coal tar, pine tar, soot and raw linseed oil on all my guns. When I rub it into the wood it gives a medium dark golden-red glow. I do the final rubbings with teak oil and this gives a mirrorlike finish.
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    Welded barrel seams

    In my younger days we made a lot of pipe bombs from thin-walled tubing (before the world turned all paranoid) and the fragments I recovered afterwards were rarely split along the seam. Modern automated welding creates seams just as strong as the rest of the tubing.
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    Welded barrel seams

    I restored a very rusted barrel on a Danish-Norwegian 1774 musket. Before browning the barrel, I polished it down and etched it with hydrochloric acid. What appeared looked very like a damaskus like pattern but is probably due to the barrel being forged out of used nails. Try imagining the total...
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    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    I would trust a DOM tube welded by a computer controlled welder more than I would trust a tube with a hand forged weld.
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    Black powder gunsmithing

    That is the best way to work. :thumbsup:
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    Truth about DOM tubing barrels

    If a barrel survives the proof load, I'd use it with complete confidence even if it was made from DOM.
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    Wheel-lock plans online!

    I did the same on paper after finding errors in the drawings. Make one part at a time and you should be able to avoid trouble.
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    Pine stock

    The bit about the grain is not true. Birch has very nice figure if you know how to pick a tree. Here's a stock in the white:
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    Pine stock

    What about birch? It works for me.
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    Breech Plug Fit

    I've pulled the plug on many an old barrel. Tolerances were'nt very tight in the old days. It's a wonder they didn't blow up all over the battlefield. :hmm: The breech plug needs to fit tightly but it dosen't have to have NASA tolerances.
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    Breech Plug Fit

    Magnaflux WILL tell you what is going on under the surface as the magnetic field generated in the steel will show sub-surface flaws. Liquid penetrant testing on the other hand will only show flaws on the surface. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnaflux
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    Pictures of Pre 1700 Guns

    http://www.google.no/images?hl=no&source=imghp&q=doglock&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
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    German/Dutch style wheellock cavalry pistol ca.1650

    All the wheellocks I have seen in have inletted lock plates. I think most lock plates are quite thick (4-5mm) and considering the amount of inletting for the mainspring, bridle, trigger bar and stuff, inletting the lock plate is not much to fuss about. I also get ahead of myself sometimes, and...
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