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  1. J

    I Need A Knife (F & I Era)

    Wow........click on it and away you go! Right to some kind of spam/scam asian site. The forum has been infected.
  2. J

    A Pair of Pistols from the French Alps

    The fluted barrels are the equivalent of beautiful, long hair and a low-cut dress on a woman.
  3. J

    Kalamazoo Living History Exposition

    A woman can buy a lot of clothing there!
  4. J

    Kalamazoo Living History Exposition

    If you go, take at LEAST $200.......preferably $400.
  5. J

    Kalamazoo Living History Exposition

    I've been going for quite a few years. It's always worth it! if you are into reenacting or want to get into reenacting, or want anything related to muzzleloaders, you will find it at this show.
  6. J

    Jaeger Kit

    I am working on a TOW Jaeger kit right now. I have built a Pennsylvania Longrifle from one of their kits. TOW has good kits and components, but the kits require quite a bit of work to complete, even though the stock is "pre-inlet", which helps a lot. If you don't have experience building a gun...
  7. J

    Niles MI Museum

    I was there last summer, and, unless you are close by, I wouldn't make the trip....YET. They really had very few, if any, artifacts that had been excavated from the Fort St. Joseph site in the museum because they are still carefully excavating and categorizing the artifacts they are finding...
  8. J

    Got a dang jag stuck in barrel today

    I got a jag with the ramrod stuck the same way, and I needed to go hunting the next day. No problem! When I got to my hunting spot, I unscrewed the nipple and sprinkled in a bit of our magic dust. Pow....didn't come out. A little more magic dust....pow....still stuck. A little more magic dust...
  9. J

    Unfamiliar Matchlock Style

    I can tell you this: the German word for crossbow is Armbrust, which is an interesting term because Arm= arm (pretty easy to translate that one) and Brust= breast or chest. Because of that name I've always wondered if the first crossbows were held against the center of the chest and fired, maybe...
  10. J

    Anyone fretting/thinking about building their own muzzleloader?

    I resemble these remarks.....
  11. J

    New Forged Knife

    Good-looking work, and the fact that the antler could be really old adds to its interest and value!
  12. J

    Trade Axe Identification?

    That is a nice piece! Think of the history it has undergone, and all the people who have handled it.
  13. J

    keg swelling

    Okay....so I filled my ~ 1 gallon cask partially with water and then put it in a container of water so that the outside would swell, too. It swelled and the bands are now tight. I also learned to back off the bungs and put them in kind of loosely before swelling, because they are REALLY hard to...
  14. J

    keg swelling

    Thanks, Pietro. I read this link again. I already read it, and I think the info is good. I was also hoping to get some members' personal expierience and input.
  15. J

    keg swelling

    At a recent gun and reenactor show I acquired a small keg with copper bands and wooden bungs. I would like to use the keg (about 1 and 1/2 gallon) as equipment in my 18th century French encampment. The problem: The bands are loose and the keg obviously needs swelling. The staves are not loose...
  16. J

    I was a little suprised

    Soak it in Ballistol....
  17. J

    Flintlock

    Which one?
  18. J

    So how are you supposed to fill this powder canister?

    Put a few drops of Ballistol on the spout threads.
  19. J

    Lead ID and potential usefulness.

    The idea is okay, but "unmentionable" has too many letters, "Modern" works just as well.
  20. J

    For you rock bangers....

    Quite a few years ago in Williamsburg I watched two guys doing an operation called "barrel straightening". They were working on a semi-finished gun barrel and giving it hammer blows, eyeballing it, then another hammer strike, more eyeballing, and so on.. Very interesting to watch. Then I went...
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