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  1. TobJohn

    Japanese Matchlock Myths

    I bought 6ft of cotton matchcord from this organization about a year and a half ago, on their old website: https://www.sykessutler.com/index.php/musketry/ It’s worked well enough, if you want something premade.
  2. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    My college had a Scottish theme going on, so I appreciate bagpipes, but I also lived near the bagpipe house and understand why people hate them
  3. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    The shootings will continue until morale piping improves
  4. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    Id ask to be shot properly all over again
  5. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    At least he can die happy that it’s ethical, high quality, pasture fed butter.
  6. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    The picture is from an Irish Butter Museum, so probably not an authority on matchlock warfare.
  7. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    When shooting a petronel, it’s important to ensure that you burn your armpit or ears
  8. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    No problem, I am always happy for an opportunity to obsess over matchlocks.
  9. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    Yeah and that it would be easier to find a stand in with a smaller or less historically accurate replica. Anybody that would know enough to tell the difference would also know enough to have a great conversation about matchlocks, lol! An additional question would be to what extent the English...
  10. TobJohn

    Questions regarding an England and Scotland trip in 2025

    I went to the Royal Armouries almost a year ago today and it was worth the visit. Its normally open to the public. They have a lot of good muzzleloaders, sporting and military. If you are in London, the Wallace collection has some high art muzzleloaders on display.
  11. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    This business looks to have built one: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063463063081&name=xhp_nt__fb__action__open_user I haven’t purchased from them, so I cannot personally vouch for them. On the matchlock and wheellocks Facebook page, there may be some other builders. A word of...
  12. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    We may have an answer for the incorrect handling of petronels in at least one example. This print, which I posted previously, is allegedly based on an original by Jacques Le Moyne, who was a first hand witness to the events. Unfortunately, almost all of his original work was destroyed, so this...
  13. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    Speaking of matchlock historical detail in art, the Pavia tapestries where designed by an artist (Bernard Van Orley) who almost certainly never experienced warfare, maybe never even visited Italy, but managed to create art with an incredible amount of correct detail, and even vaguely understood...
  14. TobJohn

    Woodsrunner CNC Incised Carving

    Are you still planning on adding a relief carving option for the woodsrunner? Congrats on the release of the fowler, it looks amazing!
  15. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    I concur. The vast majority probably saw an army on parade, or had a couple models to base their art on, but never experienced combat or saw the weapons in action.
  16. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    Yes, it has really perplexed me. Most likely the artist taking liberties. 16th century artists seemed to have had a hard time understanding gun sights. There are paintings of earlier arquebusiers hip firing their snapping arquebuses, but that also makes no sense when they have sights and cheek...
  17. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    We’d all be speaking English in California and it would be part of the United States
  18. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    only if it has a pistol grip and flash hider! I guess that could make petronels with cannon muzzles illegal in California! I actually grew up pretty close to where Sir Francis Drake landed (hence my profile pic)
  19. TobJohn

    Roanoke Colony Firearms

    The bottom gun is attempting to replicate an Italian arquebus petronel, but is substantially off. Here is what the gun of that type looked like: A painting from 1590 depicts drakes landing in California with some form of arquebus petronel: the vast majority of European art depicting events...
  20. TobJohn

    Getting ready to shoot a matchlock as a newbie

    Good luck finding one! If you are ever in Virginia, I’ll happily let you shoot mine.
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