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    Pre Flintlock Books

    I would love to get a look at Stockel! Any German speakers here? I am sure there must be some good books in German. I have Art, Arms and Armour : an International Anthology. Vol.1 , 1979-80 / Edited by Robert Held This is truly awesome, with scholarly articles eg on the Italian view of the...
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    Antique Cannon Construction - Sage Advice Needed

    An alternate method of casting which does not use a two-part mold is lost wax casting. This is also the method used since antiquity for bronze sculptures as it was one of the earliest advanced technologies of any civilisation. The advantage of lost wax is that extremely high quality finishes can...
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    That button is unknown to me.
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    I have never much liked tschinke but they are the highest developed external spring locks. Try pinterest for some lovely ones.
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    Dear me, I seem to be on a roll. These come from European Arms and Armour vikingsword.com the work I think of the amazing Michael Tromner.
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    One of the type in Rimer's book, clearly ex Royal Armouries website
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    External spring wheellocks from Graz

    A few pictures from my visit about 2012 I really tried to get photos that showed how deep the parts were. Most photos are square from the side.
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    Full regalia on this purchase…

    Yes! More info and pics would be great!
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    Pyrites Problems

    Please people, no agate or flint! Agate is just microcrystalline silica, like flint. If you regard your wheels as consumables, go right ahead.
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    Polish wheellock gunmaker?

    I am another fan of Bolek's work. His generous sharing of images of his work as he proceeds to create a top-class arm, is extraordinary. I have subscribed to his online course on making wheellocks, and it was very educational.
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    tschinke pan operation

    I emphasise it's Bolek's work, and Bolek's pictures. You can see many many pictures of his work in progress at the FB group " "Matchlock and Wheellock Guns" I wont presume you dont know but other readers may wish to know that Bolek posted here some time ago as Raszpla. He is an amazing...
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    tschinke pan operation

    Great, carry on!
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    tschinke pan operation

    Bolek's work and his picture today.
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    tschinke pan operation

    Did you solve this? Are you all across how it works in other wheellocks? I have a book with a line drawing of a tschinke lock interior and exterior. The spindle cam for the pan cover is the only part of the spindle projecting inside the lockplate, because tschinke bearings are the plate and...
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    Australian & NZ FORUM.

    Bonjour, Le Loup! Ca va?
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    I can’t see my sights

    Me too! I choose cheap reading glasses plus black eleccy tape pierced with the smallest hole on my rotating leather punch.
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    1858 Enfield by Parker Hale

    Bill is one of those extraordinarily generous people whose vast experience is willingly shared with so many. I hope he is going OK!
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    Pictures of hunting wheellocks.

    I put up a post on the FB group noting that I work in a pyrite mine that has 'a few impurities'. Unfortunately the grains are very small and mostly not useful. However I have been lucky and there are places it is massive sulphide. I am trying to get some good pieces to test when I build my lock...
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    1858 Enfield by Parker Hale

    I have a similar 2-band rifle, it is indeed an 1858 and very popular for target shooting at my club. A few use the shorter Carbine and one the 1853 Rifle. Have you read the article 'Managing the Enfield' by WS Curtis? Excellent work, and spread all over the web. Dont bother with any lighter...
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    Bolek is running a course on building wheellocks.

    I think we should recognise anyone doing something to their ability; its a whole different world to wishing we could do something, or picking flaws in the work of the doers. I look at an original rifle and think how the people who made and owned this rifle were people doing stuff, living flat...
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