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  1. M

    Sear Spring on the Blue Ridge Long Rifle

    use a safety pin! even comes with a handy built in eye for securing it under the screw.. the legs can be bent to bring the right tension and various weights of wire can be found. use what works! It'll get you there until you find a replacement or make one. Respect Always Metalshaper
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    What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

    Working on a couple of Underhammer actions/designs. One action, on loan from my bud MRW...to see if I can improve upon it. the other is my own design/mod, borrowing from the Cook style of lock. Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan
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    Hypothetically speaking...

    I was once given a box of .36 slugs, because the Gift-er knew my gun was a .36.. only problem my barrel is an old Numrich barrel and is actually closer to a .357-8 in reality, so they would not initially fit. I/we took a flat couple of flat plates and rolled them just a 'weee' bit. I could...
  4. M

    Walnut Dust

    having asthma and now long hauling after covid.. ANY wood dust is an allergen!! Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan
  5. M

    Tips for carving spirals?

    :oops: not trying to be an a** but sharpen your pencil and your chisels!!! your idea is good .. just need to improve your ability to cut what you draw.. step back and use a digital camera ( phone works ) load the pic onto a full screen and enlarge.. You will see a ton of things you can improve...
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    D.A. Stanley underhammer action.

    Looking at the Stanley, I bet it's a lot simpler than you think? Here's mine? WAY too complicated internals, but it works.. Need to do a rebuild and make it a single trigger. On a UH the DS trigger is superfluous. ( but I had to answer the ego challenge ) Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan
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    Oil Flints :

    Deerstalker.. You are probably right, but around there its referred to as Ozarkarite..or as best as I can understand them..:dunno:;) his were not all that crazy in colors? mostly various hues of blues and greys.. I texted with his a while ago, and he said the edge has blunted, but the 'flint'...
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    Oil Flints :

    My bud in Warsaw MO can walk out in his yard and pick up what he/they call "ozarkarite"( right or wrong? ) .. I think it's the state rock?? 😆 anyway, he brought a small bucket full to a rondy we were at and asked me to try and knap some flints. A lot of them were grainy and veiny .. one whack...
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    Oil Flints :

    "what happened to the old MLML??" Spence, it dissolved and the became the Campfire ashes forum..if not mistaken? That one has been fading for years. < just looked and it appears it's gone > Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan
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    Oil Flints :

    MLML.. Oh my, how the years have gone by! Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan aka, Dagwood
  11. M

    What is this…

    called the accra-shot back in the day. took a small rifle primer and had a lil loader device/tube that stacked primers up. different in that the primers were stacked on top of each other. Works and certainly will fire a gun. Slow and klunky to reload. Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan
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    Mule Ear locks

    Bnew, would love to see pics of that lock?? Most(?) of the Mule ear guns would be, what they call, New York pattern I would imagine. Seems the east coast was the center for Muley and under hammer style guns. Not saying they didn't get further west but seem to be more prevalent in the east...
  13. M

    Mule Ear locks

    Here is my Muley, along with a page from Newton's lock book.. You could always make your own?? Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan
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    Cutting a Breech Plug

    Your welcome Zugg! although I have some plugs with a long threaded journal. The jam nut, threaded to the shoulder would mean the cut was wrong.( too short ) I "try" to measure and just turn the jam nut in far enough?? then cut and file. but there are variations to the theme :p Respect Always...
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    Cutting a Breech Plug

    Zugg, you only use ONE jam nut. The slice through the flat ( as I described ) and clamping in the vise is what holds/Locks things in place for cutting and filing. I consider the jam nut as somewhat sacrificial.. in that I'm not that worried if it gets a lil scratched and such as you are using...
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    Cutting a Breech Plug

    find one of the thinner 'lock nuts' in the right thread/pitch. Cut through one side flat, with a hacksaw. spin it on to the right depth and tighten on the nut in a vise. ( the cut allows the vise to tighten the nut and lock/hold on the threads ) cut a bit long and file.. Test and re-file if...
  17. M

    Making a patchbox catch

    I think you'll find, as little as the catch needs to move?? even mild steel will have enough spring in it to work. spring steel is great and is appropriate when you have it.. I sometimes run out 🤔 Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan
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    Underhammer actions

    They are not that hard to make.. Here's a couple of mine. Respect Always metalshaper/Jonathan btw, Those Billinghurst action sold by MBS are for LARGE barrels and will need a bit of mod'ing if your gonna use them with barrels less than 1" acf...in my opinion..
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    I give up!

    No slight intended.. had a Siler I started to work on and then put back together. Much to my dismay, during the process the fly, flew and I have no idea where it landed. does it catch with a fast/complete pull on the front trigger?? and or does it only catch with the set? just trying to figure...
  20. M

    lock making

    on the gunmakers lock.. the everything is set and ready, if I'm not mistaken?? all ya' gotta do is figure out the shape and it's placement??( on the gun ) unless I'm missing something ?? Respect Always Metalshaper/Jonathan but what do I know 😆 last lock I made turned out sideways!!!!
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