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Good luck ! It isn't that complicated but needs some patience , as I've learned .

Today , I started to finish the barrel and stock after sanding . Barrel will be browned with Homer Dangler Gun Brown , somewhat slow but very nice in the end . The stock has been wiped with iron nitrate , as they did in the old days , but instead of heating it with fire , I used a heat gun . Not...

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I just wanted to show You , what else I'm tinkering with ... ( hand forged damasteel , some stainless and some scrap mammoth tooth )

Stock starting to get it's shape ... Since each single part , even bolts , screws . piston etc, has been made by myself from old material , old technics and tools , I plan to finish it also in old finish , rust browning the barrel and treating the stock with iron nitrate , heating and oiling it...

Wow - that's , what I payed for the raw barrel only ! Keep in contact with this guy , working for less than his material and even his labour ! But let me show You , how I started my stock , which I plan to make from an odd piece of maple . The drilled holes are for the planned attachment of a...

:):ThankYou::thumb: Praise always helps if something does not go as planned and I also have to improvise from time to time and want to throw the hammer through the workshop in frustration!

Today , I've finally installed the barrel with its piston , which I made from beryllium bronce . After loading it with 6,5 gr Swiss No.1 , it went off at the first attempt ! Since the smallest rounds I have is .311 , I'm looking for pills in .290 . SO - if anyone among You should have a mould...

Today , I've polished the hammer , trigger and spring before I heat treated them . Before hardening , I've roughly filed the notches for safety and full cock . After having annealed all the parts , I've adjusted the trigger pull to ca. 800 gramm . Trigger spring is a coil spring . Now it...

PS.: the spring is made from a cutoff of an old saw blade of 2,3mm thickness . I think , I have to taper it to the end , where it engages to the toe of the hammer

rough shaped spring prepared . It has already a hefty pull , even before hardening it . This step follows , after all is installed , the notches in the hammer filed and adjusted . I plan to have a very short hammer fall for a pretty fast lock time . Next step is to shape the trigger , slotting...

As You can see , the breech plug and the system are one integral piece . The threaded plug screws directly into the barrel end and seals with its face and also with the "shoulder" , where the actual system begins .

Today , I started to file and install the hammer

Well - For over 40 years now , I enjoy shooting muzzle loaders , having started with a Pedersoli " Le Page " pistol . Being an extreme precision afficionado , soon I startet to shoot vintage pistols , which are much more precise than newly built ones , as I had to learn . If there is an interest...

After lots of filing and dremeling , the " breechplug-system" starts to look like it should ...Material is C-45 tool steel .

Thank You for Your hint . Have posted it as suggested in the Handgun's area . Maybe someone is interested in my project ?

Recently , I started a new project . I'm lucky to have had the muzzle piece , cut off from a worn-out Swiss Grünig&Elminger barrel in perfect mirror state in cal. 7,5mm Swiss ( .30 ) and a very short twist , which should make very well for a frontloading pistol .( The rear end was REALLY worn...

By the way - thank You for Youre welcomes !

Today , I started a new project . I'm lucky to have had the muzzle piece , cut off from a worn-out Swiss Grünig&Elminger barrel in perfect mirror state in cal. 7,5mm Swiss ( .30 ) and a very short twist , which should make very well for a frontloading pistol .( The rear end was REALLY worn...