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Andrew Fautheree was a noted builder from California in the 1960s and 1970’s, featured in Muzzle Blasts. This re-creation of a S Hawken...

This was a fun project. I forged this spike hawk from a rail road spike. Throw with blade front and it sticks with the blade reverse and...

Sheath Photos....

Hi Guys. Here is an old (but not too old I believe) knife I acquired yesterday. Back Story: Yesterday, I was leaving the gun store...

Flat horn flasks were really the only type used in Europe back in the days of yore. For some reason there are few (if any?) examples of...

Also, nice ball trigger. No one that I know of in the U.S. makes a universal type ball trigger. That would be worth doing a wax casting.

Chinese matchlock ! I like your style there like very long barrelled pistols but they go off . Not quite as bizzarr as Cyngoleese...

Congratulations. Looks like good workmanship. Will make a nice Circassian style pistol. Rick

Hmmm. DEI requires you have an Asian, African, and Pacific Islander lock, too! ;)

OK added a short-ish video of it sparking

Awesome Circassian Lock! @peserey does excellent work! Looking forward to your build. There is a thread here with LOTS of pictures of...

Cool little Caucasian style lock arrives from Turkey today (Perserey Handicrafts). Has a nice spark! The ball thing is a trigger. Took...

Or a macuahuitl! Some of the lads on PaleoPlanet have made some incredible replicas with knapped obsidian blades...

Probably a lot more comfortable than a stone axe to the skull

I have to wonder how comfortable those Morions were while marching with Oñate through the 110-degree heat of the Jornada del Muerto...