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    Advice / Help with Removing Paint off of a Hawken Rifle

    The basic stain applied alright but the boiled linseed oil is giving mixed results. Some areas soak it up better than others. I'm on my 4th coat of applying, wiping, drying, and buffing away. May need to put another 2-3 coats on it more before adding the Tru-Oil
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    Advice / Help with Removing Paint off of a Hawken Rifle

    Thank you all for your suggestions and advice! Sorry for the late reply been working on a commission. My father sent it to an Amish furniture maker and stripped the paint off and the older finish. Revealing the tack marks from one of the previous owners that was covered up. I believe the wood is...
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    Advice / Help with Removing Paint off of a Hawken Rifle

    Its a CVA Hawken, didn't know how old. Not sure if the bent hammer was made by CVA / Jukar or it was some previous owner that took a blow torch and bent it. The hammer feels actually amazing with it bent like that and makes it easier to cock
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    Advice / Help with Removing Paint off of a Hawken Rifle

    Hello freetrappers! I acquired this Hawken from a good friend. He had difficulty selling thanks to this terrible tan paint job. You can see just a glimpse of the beautiful red finish underneath near the lock. Do you recommend using a heatgun or paint stripper? I'd personally go with the heat...
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    SOLD Large belt knife

    Nice knife! Who's the maker?
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    Sent!
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    I pity the poor fellow shooting an elephant with one of those! If the barrel didn't explode you'd have to instead deal with a very mad beast that would turn you into mush. If you have any links to previous threads or sources of these guns, I'd love to see them. When you've got the time. I love...
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    Looked up the Ikarudu example you mentioned. I did not know there were particular African schools of gunmaking besides North African countries until now. I just figured they were usually cobbled together from other parts and built around the locks or the barrels. I learn something new everyday...
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    I mean more or less if anyone put it together. Bellamy robbed at least 52 ships It could have come from any one of those prizes
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    Blunderbuss- Middlesex or Veterans or ????

    Did not know that Veteran tweaks the springs! Do they do this for all there guns? What's the action feel like? I'm bookmarking this so I will know which of these companies I should purchase from next
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    Blunderbuss- Middlesex or Veterans or ????

    I personally bought a blunderbuss from Middlesex village. Never had a single problem and the gun was delivered quickly. From what ive heard from previous customers who ordered before, I got lucky! When you order from Middlesex, the touch hole is drilled for you. The frizzen was already hardened...
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    You think this gun may not be a trade gun but something the pirates put together? That's interesting.
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    Thank you for writing, Notchy Bob. I appears that the battery (frizzen) broke off. The lock still has the battery spring and the pan has a lip in the back that from this angle looks like a percussion nipple. I can assure you this image came from the Whydah Pirate Museum at Cape Cod. Here is the...
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    Right?! That stock looks so weird! I wish I had another image to go off from. Don't know if this museum allows photography. I live nearly a thousand miles away from the Cape so I can't visit anytime soon.
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    It was recovered from the Whydah Gally wreck. I noticed if you look really closely at the bottom text line on the right it says it was found on the ship. On the left is a little petri dish of the shot that was recovered in the barrel but I can't read the rest because its so blurry. If anyone...
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    Turtle front sight

    Sans means without. so without the front sight
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    What is this?

    I loves' me some good North African guns! You just don't see bone /ivory / coral inlay like that in other flintlocks.
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    I came across that gun from a news article about the museum. Maybe someone who has been or works there can tell me more. The article erroneously calls it a 'rifle' so does the plaque. Whydah exhibit at Portland Science Center
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    Whydah Gally African Trade / Slave Gun Identification

    Totally understand. That trade gun came from the same conservator so I was only showing that its possible for the stock to look THAT good for being over 300 years old. Its hard for me to believe it too! Now, the wreck's discoverer Barry Clifford also found another pirate ship in Madagascar and...
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