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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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    German/Dutch style wheellock cavalry pistol ca.1650

    An angle grinder is a useful tool and is as precise as the hand holding it. Usually I cut parts to whithin 1mm of the finished dimension and keep the finish rough enough to mimic the original. Too careful polishing may in fact make it look like a replica. And replicas have no soul. Though I do...
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    German/Dutch style wheellock cavalry pistol ca.1650

    German/Dutch style wheellock cavalry pistol ca.1650 I've never been one to follow standard procedure and I love to make something unique, so when I started on this project I didn't set out to make any excact copy of an existing gun, but rather to express myself within the technological and...
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    Wheellock ramrods

    The bracket for the axel extends benieth the centerline of the barrel and the only solution seems to be bending the ramrod to the left. This is a really anoying problem that I wish Lauber had mentioned is his pdf. :hmm:
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    Wheellock ramrods

    Building a wheellock made me have to think about a very critical thing about a wheellock. How on earth did they get a long enough ramrod in the weapon when the "bracket" for the main axel oppupies so much of the center line undernieth the barrel? Sorry for my bad english, but it's late in...
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    No Shop Rifle Building

    Bolting a vice to a couple of 2X4" will work. This allows you to move it to where you need it.
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