Couple quick pics of my matchlock build....

[BozoMiller]

Pretty damn cool.

 

[Pukka Bundook]

Jergen's lock really does not represent any real lock type I dont think. The serpent is very early, but the shaped rounded ends of the lock plate are not really contemporary to this type of serpent.
It looks like it should work very well though!

 

[Rudyard]

No ,this is a USA matchlock , 20 ga, made by Jurgen Krakel , now deceased . It is a very simple lock but it works well .
Sidney , i didn't mean to horn in on your thread , I just want to know what era my type of Matchlock is from .

Dear Dunc. Krekle came up with all sorts of stuff looks dumb to me probably his dream up.
Regards Rudyard

 

[Teleoceras]

No ,this is a USA matchlock , 20 ga, made by Jurgen Krakel , now deceased . It is a very simple lock but it works well .
Sidney , i didn't mean to horn in on your thread , I just want to know what era my type of Matchlock is from .

If you mean Jurgen Kreckel, he is still alive. He retired from gun making years ago and is into photography now. I own one of the last if not the very last Matchlock Musket he ever built.

 

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[DuncNZ]

If you mean Jurgen Kreckel, he is still alive. He retired from gun making years ago and is into photography now. I own one of the last if not the very last Matchlock Musket he ever built.

Rudyard told me he was deceased , I have now sold my Matchlock as I have no need for it and the area where I live is too dry to hunt or even range shoot with a matchlock

 

[Bucks Co]

Long live 'The brotherhood of the burning rope'!!

 

[Rudyard]

Long live 'The brotherhood of the burning rope'!!

Oh Ive heard about them ,Next thing to Druids or fluids ? since it does have a cup .Some local fellow made a few of them .Its said the rising cost of flints & copper caps drove him too it and he wandered the mountains in his delirium .A sad case but I understand he's getting counseling for his affliction or maybe its the Council getting after him in their delirium and they who be should be afflicted . Some thing like that .Regards Rudyard

 

[tom in nc]

Got the barrel and tang inlet about as good as I'm gonna get. It's a Rifle Shoppe English style matchlock kit. I had them do the Barrel channel and ramrod hole, as I don't have the skill or desire to do that part. It's got a Colerain octagon to round, .775 smoothbore barrel. Barrel measures right around 46 inches long.

The next job is to install, then inlet the barrel tenons.

This is going to be a left handed matchlock. The only left handed matchlock I've ever seen. Enjoy.

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Looking good!

 

[Rudyard]

Long live 'The brotherhood of the burning rope'!!

Good to see the Resurgens of the' new way backwards ' No pic ? .
Regards Rudyard

 

[Rudyard]

Rudyard told me he was deceased , I have now sold my Matchlock as I have no need for it and the area where I live is too dry to hunt or even range shoot with a matchlock

Dear Dunk . How is a matchlock any more fire risk than a flint lock ? Ive never seen '' No smoking' signs in the bush or on a Doc permit .Never ask them anything as they will ask some donk what he thinks and run with that .The PHD sorts are just twig & tweets nothing like the old NZFS who where proper bushmen. mostly ex cullers .Who could build a hut for half of nothing and not be flying in coal for loopies
.Regards Rudyard

 

[Sidney Smith]

Wow, Sorry guys. I forgot about this thread. I haven't made much progress on the gun. Life's project have gotten in the way. I've worked on it some in the last year, but not as much as Idve liked. I just worked on it a little over this past weekend. I putter with it a little at a time. I'm going to try to finish it up this winter. I'll post some more photos when I get time.