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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
The butt plates and trigger guards are rough sand castings and take a lot more file work than an investment cast part. Not done with either yet but made a fair amount of progress. Really not up to starting to inlet parts yet, but will start with the lock as soon as I can. Slow progress is...- davec2
- Post #19
- Forum: The Gun Builder's Bench
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Finished the prototype mini ram rod pipe....... Silver soldered on the tab: Filed the flats:- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Jim....Thanks for the good wishes on healing. The really good news about radiation treatment is that now, when I'm in the dark, I don't need a flashlight.....I can just open my mouth and see where I'm going.... ;) :o OK....so I felt good enough to try to figure out how I wanted to make the...- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Work on this project is starting out a little slower than I expected....I'm recovering from a recent medical treatment and not quite up to snuff yet. Nonetheless, I am doing some planning. With almost all of my previous builds (except for the recent Kibler kit assembly ;)), I usually hand...- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Here are a couple of pictures of the lock I am using compared to others......In the first photo, the top lock is a Becky, the second is the one from Stan that I am using on these little rifles, the next is a Bailes, the next a late Ketland (modified), and the last one is a small Queen Anne. The...- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
So here is how the project stands right now.......I sent the two stock blanks and barrels to Dave Rase not long ago for barrel inletting and ram rod drilling. One stock has been further trimmed to remove excess wood and prepare for the butt plate installation. The following photos show the...- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Many years ago now I wanted to build two, three quarter scale flintlock rifles for my then two small daughters. I was buying stock wood and inletting services from Fred Miller back then and contacted him to ask for a piece of excellent maple thick enough to split in half lengthwise so that I...- davec2
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Withdrawal, need a fix please....
Brokennock, I am flattered to be mentioned in your original post. Work and some travel for family have put a dent in my time to work on my personal projects. However, I have been working on a scaled down rifle for my grandson that I have not posted here. The work has been on hold for a few...- davec2
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Another "dragoon" type pistol
David, That’s exactly what I would have said as well !!! Hope all is well with you.- davec2
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Because I fell in a creek......
GaryPL and Tom A Hawk, I use a hammer, a 35 year old Gravermeister, and push by hand....whatever it best for any particular task. I studied engraving on my own for several years but then took 10 days of lessons from one of the great masters, Jerry Huddleston. Jerry has since passed away but I...- davec2
- Post #26
- Forum: The Craftsman
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Because I fell in a creek......
Someone asked if i had better pictures of this fire kit (without "PHOTOBUCKET" printed across them. I didn't know how to just update the pictures so this is a re-post of the original with the better pictures... Long story, but sometime back, and in the winter, I was out hiking late in the day...- davec2
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- Forum: The Craftsman
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Fancy Turnscrew
Cutfinger.....You are EXACTLY CORRECT !!! Thanks for the kind words all.- davec2
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Fancy Turnscrew
A friend made me a shooting pouch and sent it to me as a gift. I asked what I could do in return and he mentioned that he always wanted a fancy turn screw for his guns. So I made this. The blade is machined from 1144 "stress proof" steel.- davec2
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Another "dragoon" type pistol
Thank you all....and....Ohio .75, it is NOT rocket science.....but it does give me a tremendous appreciation for the skill and patience of gunsmiths, lock smiths, barrel makers, foundry men, etc., etc. in the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th centuries who made untold numbers of firearms by hand in those...- davec2
- Post #17
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Another "dragoon" type pistol
I had previously half way cleaned up the Dragoon lock casting set I had purchased several years ago from Blackley & Son in the UK. At the time they were moving their facility and foundry and did not have the screw set for this lock. After several unsuccessful attempts to have a set delivered I...- davec2
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Another "dragoon" type pistol
Ok......now the brass is all polished.......- davec2
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Another "dragoon" type pistol
Someone mentioned that I was in some sort of weird time warp.....switching back and forth between testing rocket engines and building flintlocks. Yes. And in addition to testing rocket engines I am in the process of building a new control center / blockhouse to run the tests from.....I was...- davec2
- Post #11
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Another "dragoon" type pistol
Back from the desert.....but still up to my a$$ in alligators as far as work is concerned. However, for my own mental health (as far as that goes), I spent a little while doing some minimal carving on the pistol stock. There is not much in the way of fancy carving on a Dragoon type pistol, but...- davec2
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Bullet Boards...and things...
I built a hydraulic press for stamping. This first picture is of the entire press. It is a simple welded assembly of 2 inch square tubing. A hydraulic jack, with a pressure gage that reads cylinder pressure, just sits on the bottom plate and pushed against the bottom of the lower, movable...- davec2
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- Forum: The Craftsman
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Bullet Boards...and things...
A few years ago I was asked by U.S. Army veteran to make a special bullet board / loading block. He was in the Army for 13 years before residual wounds caught up with him and he left the service. He went back to school to become an ordained minister and is writing a book. I was happy to make...- davec2
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- Forum: The Craftsman