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Because of the coronavirus , I have to stay at home , since the borders have been closed ( I'm working in Switzerland , but live in Germany ) . So I use my time for tinkering a bit with my project . I have an old walnut case for a telescope from the 1890s , which I want to use for my buggy...

Thank You for Your kind thoughts - and yes , as You can see in my post from Feb 24 , there is a safety noth , but not so close to the nipple to prevent loss of a cap but for safely placing one with my capper , seen in my post of March 10 .

That's what I think , too , meanwhile . A wooden stock would destroy the filigran look of my buggy gun and with this skeleton stock , I'm pretty happy ( espetially , since I prefere to handle steel instead of carving wood - being not my favorite material to work with .)

@ Caspar25 : If you ever have to install a blade sight or whatever , you only have to file the exact depth of the base carrier into the barrel, then you take a triangular needle file, grind the cut off on one surface so that you do not file deeper into the barrel and file the slants in which you...

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Greetings, and yes, I actually file all the parts free hand . (During the last run I wore 2 files, damn tough, the barrel material ...) I've been looking for a mini milling machine for a long time that would make my life a lot easier, even if I had to learn how to use it ... Well, I work as a...

Translatiion : if you turn your parts on "the bench" then my esteem increases even more. But honestly where and how do you mill your parts? Aren't they made with a file? I had an apprenticeship as a high-voltage electrician (industry) in the 1960s, where we stood at the vise for 3/4 years; that...

Being an optometrist , I normally work 5-6 days a week from 8:00 in the morning when I leave home until I reach home again at 19:00 in the evening . As You've already learned , I'm a quite restless person , so after a small dinner , I mostly go to my home shop for tinkering a little with my old...

Because of the Corona - Virus , they have closed our shooting ground - now I have to wait until I can eventually try out my new toy . For today , let me show , what else I've tinkered over the last years . The one at the far right is the one , that started my journey , being a rather rare steel...

There is a brass bushed drilled through hole for the upper tang and a brass bush for the (narrowed ) lower tang in the stock . From the base of the stock , there is a threaded tube reaching the bushing for the upper tang and the screw clamps it to place . Quite easy ! Fortunately , I already...

There is a brass bushed drilled through hole for the upper tang , a brass bushing for the lower and a also brass bushed , threaded tube in the butt . The screw from the base reaches the top tang and clamps it to place . The drop of the stock is such , that when I place it to my shoulder , the...

Well , even the barrels of modern shotguns are silver soldered at the rear , where the lugs/ under hooks etc are to be attached to . As long , as You don't use a too "hard" flame as from an acetylene torch and let it cool down veeery slowly , there should not be a harm to the barrel steel ...

Having not got one single answer to my question about the stock , now I've made one from silver steel rod , warm bent , silver soldered and cold blued . My " poor mans buggy gun " is ready to shoot . Is there still an interest in this topic ? If so , I'll show You , how I build the starter ond...

Couldn't sleep tonight , so flipped through my " underhammer bible " of H.C.Logan , and I learned , that nearly all of the quite scarce specimens of these " poor man's guns " , which are equipped with an attachable stock , had one made from ( most ) steel rod . Shall I try my hands on such a...

Oh , thank You for this address ! Unfortunately , Jeff Tanner has passed away , but it seems , his shop still exists .

Today , I finally reached the end of the first part of my Ruggles journey - she's finished ! Now I'm eagerly waiting for next sunday , when I can try her on target for the very first time ! :):):) The only pills I could find , are .283 , but I hope with a little thicker patch it will do either...

Just for getting an idea of my workbench ... As all of You can see , nothing unusual , and even my old , over 100 years old lathe is sufficient with not more than ( most selfmade ) basic tools !

Yesterday and today , I filed the topstrap with its integral sight , made the screws and attatched them all . The entire gun starts to look , like I planned it , and also starts to look , as if it is an original vintage one . The barrel has taken a great old times brown , and after tinkering a...

I think , here comes the place to say THANK YOU to my good friend in Blotzheim , Alsace/France who lets me work in his home shop whenever I have some spare time to tinker with my project . Seems , it will become an international project , being an old American pattern , built by a German in...

Hallo ! Leider kann ich mir keine Baumkirchner leisten , meine Idee ist , eine Unterhammer nach dem Ruggles - Patent von 1825 möglichst originalgetreu mit altem Material , altem Originalwerkzeug und den alten Techniken nachzubauen . Der "Topstrap" mit dem Visier kommt noch ! Gruß zurück in die...