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This barrel is from scratch :-)

An update... Just progressing on the shaping. Early 16th century guns are fairly "clunky" compared to most of the later guns. But despite that there are the beginning of stylistic lines. I am not done shaping but here are few pics. Most of this is done with a rasp butbthen contouring the...

One more thing... I could not get a good picture of that gun's barrel or really any Spanish guns of that period. I did the next best thing and looked at German ones since they were unified for much of the century. Here is a link for a German gun of that time period. I based my barrel on it...

lol... Anyway thought it might be nice to show the original I am basing mine on from 1500-1525 era.

Thanks for the compliments. I am still learning a lot but giving it my all and having fun. Originally I was going to build my own action but this one came for sale and I could not pass it up. I guess after researching for cover five years I was anxious to get it done. Action was built by...

I thought I would share my journey here of my first build and how it is going. I joined the forum a few years ago.  At that time, I was just looking to build a quick kit gun and look for tips.   In comes our “Tinker2” who was kind enough to take me under wing and meet up face to face to...

No I had not seen that... Beyond great close-ups of some great matchlocks. Had no idea they made combo snapping/sear matchlocks.

I finally found one showing the trigger bar coming out... So is this usual- it just coming out of the wood? Matchlock Link

I am looking for some good pictures of "trigger bar" style (not snapping) matchlocks from the 16th century. I can find plenty of pictures of them profilled on the lock side but I am having real problems finding many pictures from below and/or the non-lock sides. Specifically I would really...

I am inclined to build it from the description (which seems simple enough). I plan to do some hunting with it when complete, but we don't have many tree's where I hunt so the chances of it catching on a branch is pretty slim :-) If nothing else I can do the "traditional" ramrod down the road...

I was doing some more research on an early 16th century Spanish matchlock I am building and they mentioned that it had a ramrod mounted on the side of the gun: ".... the ramrod was fastened externally to the left side of the stock. Although none remains, a small iron loop near the muzzle and...

While early guns tended to use large calibers- there were some smaller ones. While researching Petronel's (16th century matchlock with a curved stock) I ran across a few in the 40-50 "ish" calibur range

Can be used for Mule deer or White Tail - statewide. I talked to a good friend last night- he thinks he can get me on some really excellent Badlands terrain that have monster Mule Deer. He works cattle for the owners and they seem ok to let me go out. Even if I don't his place has produced...

So in my state (South Dakota) it is very hard to get a muzzleloader tag that you can use on a buck. In fact they only give 1000 for the whole state and over 12,000 apply - mostly because of the influx of the modern inline muzzleloader. Pretty much used to getting emails from them about this...

Going back farther in time you see them on quite a few matchlocks and wheellocks. Been told they are on crowsbows even farther back in time. Just like today some folks love peeps, others hate them. :idunno:

Keep up the good work. I like to see your progress. I am building my first matchlock as well. I have run across straight and tapered octagon in 16th century research and of course they had rifling all the way back to the 15th century. There are at least some petronel barrels that are under...

What would be the best way to attach? (besides- dovetailing- I don't have the tools for that) Brazing, tig welding, silver sodder, etc? I have not decided which barrel to use but one of my choices is an old shotgun barrel I ordered from Numrich arms that I installed a breech plug in (so it...

I'm finally getting back to a matchlock project. I need to attach the pan/pan-cover to the barrel since it is separate piece from the action. My question is which is the best way to do this? I don't want to do anything to ruin the temper of the barrel but will need it secure. Thanks!

There are a few more pics,sorry if I am not a great photographer, it is steel not brass, just been polishing.

I am making project progress after a good weekend on the lathe for my matchlock I am however wondering what would be the best way to take down the sides of the barrel flat as was occasionally done on these side of barrels on early matchlocks such as this I was thinking of a file so I...