guncobbler
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Hi all - Is there a good source for matchlock locks and other parts? Thanks, GC
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I've seen photos of real beauties that were made by hand. I made one myself, which I'm going to install in a walnut stock with a smoothbore barrel as soon as I get done with the 73,000 other projects I've got going, including a couple which my wife has taken a personal interest in having completed. I wouldn't rate my lock as a beauty, but it's pretty close to historically correct and (the reason for even mentioning it) it wasn't nearly as difficult as a flint or even percussion lock to design and build. With some research you'll find at least a couple of original types that, mechanically, were fairly simple. The relative ease of building them was one major reason matchlocks hung on a good while into the flint era.
Click into the "Pre-Flintlock" section of this forum for much more extensive info as to original designs and gunsmiths who specialize in this field.
Click into the "Pre-Flintlock" section of this forum for much more extensive info as to original designs and gunsmiths who specialize in this field.
Patrick Hemken
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Hi there,
Somewhere they moved a couple of posts of mine on building a gun, they just did it today. Not sure where it is at the moment. Look for Wisconsin Matchlock shooters somewhere around here. What kind of parts are you looking for. They are all pretty easy to make
Pat
Somewhere they moved a couple of posts of mine on building a gun, they just did it today. Not sure where it is at the moment. Look for Wisconsin Matchlock shooters somewhere around here. What kind of parts are you looking for. They are all pretty easy to make
Pat
coehornboy
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Guncobbler:
I posted photos of my homemade lock under "My first matchlock build." Only 7 or so parts, all made from "scrap." :v
I posted photos of my homemade lock under "My first matchlock build." Only 7 or so parts, all made from "scrap." :v
Patrick: I think your posts were moved to the Pre-Flint Forum (not by me).
If anyone wonders where a post was moved to, they can find out by going to their "my Home" at the top of the page, or by just clicking on their name in the left hand column of a post they have made. That will deliver them to their (or that persons) "Home".
At the top of the page below the lower dark line in their Home, is a button to list all of the posts they have created, or all of the posts they have responded to.
Click on this. It will tell you where the post is, and when it was made.
Oh, here is a link to the Wisconson post:
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If anyone wonders where a post was moved to, they can find out by going to their "my Home" at the top of the page, or by just clicking on their name in the left hand column of a post they have made. That will deliver them to their (or that persons) "Home".
At the top of the page below the lower dark line in their Home, is a button to list all of the posts they have created, or all of the posts they have responded to.
Click on this. It will tell you where the post is, and when it was made.
Oh, here is a link to the Wisconson post:
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