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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

    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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    Strange but wonderful wheelock

    I found this strangely modern wheellock from 1620 on the net. This is a really stream-lined design. Link
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    Books

    I want to buy some books on gunsmithing that deal specifically with flintlocks, wheellocks, snaphaunces and restoring antique pieces. Anyone got any tips? European arms are most interesting and detailed pictures of lock types, their internal mechanisms and geometry would be nice. I allready know...
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    Plum red browning

    I have to touch up a small part of the barrel on an original piece. I know it will not be perfect but anything will help. The barrel has a deep browning that looks almost plum red, how is that achieved?
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    Restoration projects

    I have devoted much of my time this last year to school so I havn't had much time for my flintlock project. Instead I have done a restoration project for a collector. I did take some pictures before I started but lost them when my computer crashed. The gun was a Norwegian 1774 drill musket in...
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    All steel patch knife

    I just finished this patchknife. I must admit that I cheated a little bit, it ain't forged, it's welded together of three pieces of steel. The knife is 7.5 inches long and the grip is made of 1/2" square and 3/8" round steel rod. The blade is 3/16" thick.
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    Grape shot

    I've seen pictures of grape shot that are tied together like this----> Does anyone know how exacty you go about making one of these? Where do I begin and how do I best keep my balls in place while tieing them up? I attempted a grape shot for my musket (9 .36 calibre balls) but I'm not really...
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    Cherry

    I'm making a cherry to cut a .78 calibre bullet mold. I started out with a 20mm ball bearing which I anealed and then drilled and tapped a hole for the stem. I'm in the process of finishing the eight cutting teeth, but I need some advice. How do I best harden the teeth without overheating them...
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    Pistol print

    Just in case anyone would like to build one of these graceful dragoon style pistols, I'll post some links to some prints I've found. Hardware for 1772 Danish-Norwegian pistol. Stock profile for 1772 Danish-Norwegian pistol. Stock profile of model 1740. Drawing of model 1710. Stock...
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    Them good old days

    I came across this shocking but interesting webpage while searching for something else. Just thought I'd share it with you. Colonial style crime.
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    Cow horn problems

    I'm sitting here with two cow horns. One of them I chopped off some corny cowboy wall ornament. It's thin walled and yellowish white all the way to the tip. The other one I found in a secondhand shop, it has a black tip and is rather small. I intend to use this for priming powder but I have a...
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    1700's tools

    I'm looking for pictures of 1700's tools like turnskrews, files, hammers, saws, a vise and such. Can anyone help me with links to websites?
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    How to brown brass?

    I'm restoring a 1774 Norwegian drill musket and have to make a new ramrod pipe. But I need to stain the new ramrod pipe to match the existing ones. Does anyone know of any chemical that will stain brass to a dark brown/almost black color? I've tried household ammonia solution and it stains the...
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    How to dry a stock blank

    I cut up a birch log I've had lying around outside for two years. I got a nice piece 120cm x 12cm x 20cm, but now I'm wondering how to dry it to prevent it from cracking. Should I cut out the almost finished contour of the stock to reduce the volume of wood that has to dry, or should I leave it...
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    Cannonballs

    I've got two cannonballs which I'd like some information on. One is two inches in diameter and has a 0.81 hole straight through it. What was the purpose of the hole? Isn't two inches a bit small for a cannon? I have another one that has the number 12 cast into its side, it too has a hole through...
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    Building flintlock

    I'm now half way in building my first flintlock mechanism. Here are some highlights from the process.
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    Hi

    Just wanted to say hello to everyone. I'm an aircraft mechanic from Norway and I've recently developed an intrest in muzzleloaders. As I've gotten older I've begun to see the artistic beauty of these handcrafted firearms. An AK-47 or UZI is still beautiful in a mechanical sort of way, but as you...
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