magnus wiberg
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Since I believe I´m now able to not only post words but also pictures here, I´d like to share with you listmembers some pics from my forge/shop where I happily spend my days building ,and repairing , ML firearms.
These pictures show some steps in building my 1620 Swedish Match Lock Musket.
Here the octagons on rear part of barrel are being milled.
This is a very handy tool I use when inletting a barrel, round or octagon. For the finishing touches in the barrel channel, it will help smoothing out a rough surface.It simply consists of a piece of round wooden dovel with a metal spacer that I sharpened the edge on, screwed at its end.
With this "cannon boring bit" that I made, I can bore out a very long and straight hole for the ram rod.
Ram rod hole is being bored out with ordinary brace attached to "canon boring bit"
Position of trigger is being established.
This is quite tricky, as the full movement of an ordinary match lock trigger is what makes the match cord serpent end up in the powder in the pan
Bottom of the pan often had some rough marks or lines, as old regulations said that the powder should be crushed with thumb in pan so as to be more easily ignited. I make mine with an MW at the bottom
Serpent or match cord holder in the shape of a dragon.
Hand built musket being fired by a member of staff of our Royal Armory at a seminar held last summer where I demonstrated these old guns in practice, not only in theory.
These pics are quite small, much smaller than I intended. But I´ll work on that, and next mail I hope I figured how to get them larger, too.
Magnus in Sweden
These pictures show some steps in building my 1620 Swedish Match Lock Musket.
Here the octagons on rear part of barrel are being milled.
This is a very handy tool I use when inletting a barrel, round or octagon. For the finishing touches in the barrel channel, it will help smoothing out a rough surface.It simply consists of a piece of round wooden dovel with a metal spacer that I sharpened the edge on, screwed at its end.
With this "cannon boring bit" that I made, I can bore out a very long and straight hole for the ram rod.
Ram rod hole is being bored out with ordinary brace attached to "canon boring bit"
Position of trigger is being established.
This is quite tricky, as the full movement of an ordinary match lock trigger is what makes the match cord serpent end up in the powder in the pan
Bottom of the pan often had some rough marks or lines, as old regulations said that the powder should be crushed with thumb in pan so as to be more easily ignited. I make mine with an MW at the bottom
Serpent or match cord holder in the shape of a dragon.
Hand built musket being fired by a member of staff of our Royal Armory at a seminar held last summer where I demonstrated these old guns in practice, not only in theory.
These pics are quite small, much smaller than I intended. But I´ll work on that, and next mail I hope I figured how to get them larger, too.
Magnus in Sweden
