My contribution to our recent set of hand gonne posts.
My hand gonne is mostly complete, I just need to refinish the metal at a future point.
This was my first time building anything since my eagle project over a decade ago, and my first time working with metal, so the process was... interesting...
Important lessons:
1. If you have no idea what you are doing, do not get a Rifle Shoppe kit.
2. If you have no idea what you are doing, do make something made by peasants 600 years ago.
I had to file/grind down the spike into shape to fit in the stock/tiller, narrow and round the barrel bands, shape the front of the stock, and widen and deepen the groves for the barrel in the stock.
The stock was treated with boiled linseed oil because it is close to historical, while also manageable. An adventure in rust removal lead to some accidental chemical aging and then sanding, which is why the metal needs to be refinished.
My sophisticated work station with the parts:
Using C clamps, because I had no vice, is a shortcut that I am definitely going to avoid in the future.
Bonus pic: A hand cannon and a hand cannon. I do not have a 15th century kettle hat or sallet, but I do have their (very distant) direct descendent: the East German M56 Stahlhelm
My hand gonne is mostly complete, I just need to refinish the metal at a future point.
This was my first time building anything since my eagle project over a decade ago, and my first time working with metal, so the process was... interesting...
Important lessons:
1. If you have no idea what you are doing, do not get a Rifle Shoppe kit.
2. If you have no idea what you are doing, do make something made by peasants 600 years ago.
I had to file/grind down the spike into shape to fit in the stock/tiller, narrow and round the barrel bands, shape the front of the stock, and widen and deepen the groves for the barrel in the stock.
The stock was treated with boiled linseed oil because it is close to historical, while also manageable. An adventure in rust removal lead to some accidental chemical aging and then sanding, which is why the metal needs to be refinished.
My sophisticated work station with the parts:
Using C clamps, because I had no vice, is a shortcut that I am definitely going to avoid in the future.
Bonus pic: A hand cannon and a hand cannon. I do not have a 15th century kettle hat or sallet, but I do have their (very distant) direct descendent: the East German M56 Stahlhelm