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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Got the muzzle cap installed with a copper rivet..... Carved and cast a miniature sterling silver thumb piece...... This is where it will go.... Machined a 4-40 threaded attachment and silver soldered it to the thumb piece (sorry these photos came out fuzzy.....I just got a new iPhone...- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
MattU, I don't do anything unusual and there are better places than me to watch how to do engraving. I mostly use a 30 year old Gravermeister to engrave but also do push engraving and some hammer & chisel work. As you can see from the above photos, I often use layout dye on the parts I am...- davec2
- Post #82
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Thank you all for the kind words.....just don't blow the engraving up too far on the computer. It looks best at arms length... :o I managed to finish the engraving on the trigger guard and muzzle cap. The center of the design on the muzzle cap is where the copper rivet will go to secure the...- davec2
- Post #79
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Finished the patch box engraving......lock, muzzle cap, and trigger guard to go......- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Continuing with the engraving on all the brass parts....... Patch box lay out..... First cuts on the box finial....... This is a sterling sliver piece that will be mounted in the center of the patch box door....... And a little engraving on the butt plate return and toe.......- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
Started the engraving. As usual, it takes me a while to get back into engraving when I have not done it for a while. I start with the parts that are most easily re-worked or replaced so if I mess them up completely I can redo them without a lot of difficulty......Started with the trigger...- davec2
- Post #69
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
I have had the time, but not the inspiration to continue work on this little rifle. I suppose it is the gunmaker's equivalent of "writers block".....when you know you want to do something but your not quite sure where to begin. I did not know what I wanted to carve on this small rifle...or...- davec2
- Post #66
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Full scale cannon re-build
Deestalkert I often shoot skeet & trap at Oak Tree but they have no place to shoot a cannon. The picture here is at Angeles Crest. HOME - Angeles Shooting Ranges -
Full scale cannon re-build
Dude, Yes....both my folks were a great help on any crazy project I came up with. My Dad drilled most of the long holes for the bolts that hold the cheeks on the carriage and the trail on the axel with a hand brace and bit. He must have done it for me because I cannot imagine how I could have... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Andy52, I have never seen a Hern Iron Works barrel in person. From reading their web description, I am a little skeptical because they cast the iron around a steel liner which invites a warped bore as the 2700 degree molten iron hits a room temperature piece of DOM tubing. Even if the bore... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Artificer, Originally I considered building a sea carriage for the gun as the solid wooden wheels were within my capability to make. However, I became enamored with the idea of a land carriage and thought I would take a crack at that version. The required wheels for a land carriage were the... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Dude, You are exactly correct.....the devil IS in the details and trying to get one part right demands that the next part over also be corrected....and then the next....and the next. Your understanding of this situation sounds like you have done this sort of thing before....:) Frankie, This is... -
A Tale of Two Little Rifles
I finished the toe plate, push rod, button mechanism to release the patch box lid. Also made up the door spring and got it installed. The door snaps closed nicely and pops open with a satisfactory spring up. Done with that. Next step on the patch box is to pull it off the stock and engrave...- davec2
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A Tale of Two Little Rifles
The last post showed part of the patch box latch and spring. Here is the complete assembly. I will install a push rod from a button in the toe plate. I also decided to add an ebony face onto the cheek piece as I did on the copy of a Jim Chambers rifle I built a few years ago. It looks...- davec2
- Post #64
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Full scale cannon re-build
I neglected to show the difference between the 50 year old "not so good looking" trail handles and the more historically accurate versions that I have installed now. Here is a photo showing one of the trail handles I made in 1970 and one of the ones I recently received from Ken and... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Well, as part of my refurbishment of the cannon I built 50 years ago, I am replacing some of my high school era home made parts with more correct versions. I started off replacing the (home made*, hand bent*, sneezed together with an old stick welder) trail handles with some castings I acquired... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Doubleset ....my method of verifying that the roof ridge pole was strong enough was to get two more guys my size to get up on the garage roof with me and stand close together in the middle of the ridge. The roof didn't collapse or even flex, so I assumed I was ok to lift the gun. I guess I... -
Full scale cannon re-build
While waiting for the barrel to be lined, I am working on correcting problems with the gun carriage. When I built the carriage I found an old cast iron acme threaded jack in a junk yard. The 1 1/2" diameter threaded shank looked like a perfect elevating screw to me. So I cut away the female... -
A Tale of Two Little Rifles
More patch box work......with the box parts made and contoured I started in on the tedious job of inletting. First I inlet led the hinge so the box door and finial sat flat on the stock. Then I screwed down the finial and side plates where I wanted them and started the cutting in around the...- davec2
- Post #63
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Full scale cannon re-build
A while back (October of last year) I posted my adventures in making up a 2.75" reamer to correct a flaw in the bore of my lite six pounder full size cannon. If you missed the thread, here is a link Reamer Made to Correct a Cannon Bore I noted the following in the preamble to that...