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Nice and robust. Good for you. have fun making the carriage, and painting or whatever you do to it.
 
Thank you. I'm still doing surface work on it to get a shine. I'm gonna try clear coating first and if that doesn't work out than I'm going to paint it black.
 
I posted in a previous thread a picture of my barrel. I just thought I would post about how it was coming along. This is my first cannon build so don't be critical of my design. I didn't have any plans so I eyeballed pictures online and made my own. The naval carriage is being made out of white oak I salvaged from a civil war era barn on my parents property in Cannon County Tennessee.



 
Yeah its pretty cool. Although there was a Civil War skermish there, there are no public cannons on display that I know of. My dad is in charge of Vietnam Veterans of America there and he's erecting a helicopter memorial. I told him that a cannon was a better idea but he's not going for it.
 
I got her finished. The whole carriage was made with no power tools except for a spindle sander on the wheels. All of it was handle planers and hammer and chisel. I think I have about 50 hours in it.





 
That's a very nice and beautiful piece you have there! This is rather intriguing to me as I've been pondering the purchase of a big gun for some time... May I ask is your gun a custom barrel?
 

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