No, meaning they run 'horizontally' or with the axis of the barrel, not 'vertically'.
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Matchlock pan & cover
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Here is one made and fitted just with hand tools by a friend in Finland.
Excellent work!.
Antti did a fantastic job making this musket.
Antti did every part like the original.
With this not being on a black powder forum, Can I post a link?
Excellent work!.
Antti did a fantastic job making this musket.
Antti did every part like the original.
With this not being on a black powder forum, Can I post a link?
That is incredibly clean work for using a modified saw blade! wonderful work
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Please remove if not allowed here!
Link to the above build .
Not a muzzle loading sight...
https://www.gunboards.com/threads/making-a-swedish-style-m-1620-matchlock-musket.1208562/#replies
Tob,
Antti had no perevious experience on work of this type.
He was meticulous in his details!
I have never seen such care in a build before.
Please remove if not allowed here!
Link to the above build .
Not a muzzle loading sight...
https://www.gunboards.com/threads/making-a-swedish-style-m-1620-matchlock-musket.1208562/#replies
Tob,
Antti had no perevious experience on work of this type.
He was meticulous in his details!
I have never seen such care in a build before.
Is surgery his day job?? Lol!
Just hand tools? Magnificent! Connoisseur of metallurgy !
Tom,
You can do the same, just take it steady and don't do anything until you know what it should look like!
If you start with no real idea, it will look like that when you finish.
You can do the same, just take it steady and don't do anything until you know what it should look like!
If you start with no real idea, it will look like that when you finish.
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Howdy! How did you make the flash pan depression? Is that drilled out with some sort of rounded drill bit? Was trying to figure this one out on my own but I am just not sure!!
Historically, I wonder if the pan was heated and then "stamped" with a tool to create a shallow depression?
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I wondered that too. I have a 1/2” ball end mill on order and I’m gonna see what that looks like on a mild steel 3/8” plate. Self teaching this stuff isn’t the easiest way but it’s rather fun trying to sort out all the various issues.
Luckily, there are a few "masters" around that can be helpful. Unfortunately @Pukka Bundook is the busiest with his real life.
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I made a matchlock pan by heating orange in the forge, then using a ball pein hammer,with the ball side on the pan blank, I smacked the ball end into the pan with another hammer. Trim with a chisel while orange, then let cool and clean up with a file.
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