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    Starting point for lock making

    Making locks from parts cast from originals has its own special challenges. And if one part is mid-drilled slightly “off” the whole mech is off. Whereas when forging or fabricating one can make a sear nose long and file to fit, for example. Same with a mainspring. If you’re forging it you can...
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    Starting point for lock making

    Great advice above. Heat treating experience is necessary. Learning to make springs is one of the more challenging parts.
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    BLOWN OUT PATCH'S

    I’d go with this for advice.
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    Brown Bess Lockplate Modification

    Lots of good information here on welding up deep engraving on locks. Some of us are fortunate to know guys who work on these guns for far below regular hourly wages for skilled craftsmen. Imagine going to an excellent welding shop and getting this done properly, and what that might cost. And...
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    F and I carbines

    Oh, you’re going against all the wishful thinking and confirmation bias! 1) We want our shorter guns to be authentic; 2) Somebody said they found some short pipes near where Roger’s Rangers once camped; so OF COURSE THEY MUTILATED THE KING’S ARMS. That conjecture has been around since the 1970s...
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    Marking Identification: New England Militia Musket

    JV Puleo who is a member on the ALR (American Longrifles) forum is an eminent scholar who could answer this.
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    Were mzldrs and revolvers cleaned back in the day, as we do today?

    Lewis and Clark operated with a military style leadership but their rifles needed to have rifling freshed out during their trip, starting with new guns. When living in the wilderness and eating what could be shot, in all kinds of weather, guns were often fired, reloaded, and not cleaned and...
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    riflin

    We are seldom in the situations our forefathers were with their guns. We shoot, we go home to a dry house, and clean our guns. We are not towing a barge up the Missouri River and living on a boat in the rain like Lewis and Clark. Their guns needed re-cutting of the rifling during their trip...
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    Original medium sized axe

    I am curious about the shape of the blade. On many (most?) French and English axes of the 18th century or earlier the top line from the eye to the edge is horizontal with no upward flare. Undecided on whether I will buy it.
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    Original medium sized axe

    I found this in a local shop here in Vermont. Somebody thought they were “fixing it” by doing a spot weld. It’s about 2-2.5 pounds in weight. Ideas on age and origin?
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    Unbeatable bore rust

    Rough bore is the likely reason. As above, steel wool or scotchbrite or better yet lapping compound will improve shooting, accuracy, and cleaning.
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    Prepping brass fittings

    Files run coarse to fine, regular cut and ******* cut which is sort of cross hatched. Cuts on fine needle files run from 0-4. A #4 is finer than you’ll need. Search for some websites like this one for more information. https://www.appropedia.org/Filing_metal
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    Unbeatable bore rust

    When I have issues with rust I find it’s been humid where I stored it.
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    Prepping brass fittings

    Half round files are the most versatile. I have about 20 of them from needle files to large ones 16” long with a variety of cuts. I’d say a set of needle files is essential for anyone doing gun work. After filing, wet or dry sandpaper 240, 320, and 400 will suffice.
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    Need help identifying Revolutionary War era musket 🙏

    https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/brown-bess-kit.139414/page-2 Your buttplate return or extension is very narrow. It does not start wide and step down in stages. Can you show me an original 2nd model Brown Bess with a narrow buttplate extension that does not start out wide and step...
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    Need help identifying Revolutionary War era musket 🙏

    That buttplate top extension (call it the return if you like; the part on the comb) is later than the Revolutionary War era in styling and completely unlike that found on a Brown Bess musket. I’ve seen it only in post-1800 muskets and trade guns and fowlers.
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    Need help identifying Revolutionary War era musket 🙏

    Yes it’s a later gun. Look at that buttplate extension.
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    What ball sizes to start with?

    Hard to know what’s going to work until you try different sized balls. I’d start with .610 if it’s a .620.
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    F and I carbines

    My understanding is that many carbines were designed for mounted troops and had a special arrangement instead of a side plate to attach to a belt. They were not just short guns. As such, rifling a gun to be fired from horseback might be to no advantage.
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    Who is going to Kempton?

    I’ll be going and doing a couple of demos.
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