German/Dutch style wheellock cavalry pistol ca.1650
I've never been one to follow standard procedure and I love to make something unique, so when I started on this project I didn't set out to make any excact copy of an existing gun, but rather to express myself within the technological and estetic flavor of the time period. I guess that few will be able to spot my departures from the originals, but feel free to comment.
The whole journey started out with the discovery of a 10,4x38 vetterli barrel sticking out of the ground with barb wire wrapped around its chamber, not too far from the Norma Ammunition factory. Not being a man who can pass a washer or a screw without putting it in my pocket, I wasted no time in thinking out a plan for my newly discovered treasure. The laws are such in my country that all arms are required to be registered, whether they pose a threat to society or not. Crawling on my knees to the local police station to beg for a licence is just not my style. You have to show good cause to own more than one weapon in the same calibre here, blackpowder replicas are also required to be registered. So I found a wonderful loop hole in the law.
Being raised in Australia I have a cultural bias against authority, we were a people decended from convicts, and the distrust against government runs deep in Norway as well. My sceptisism against registration is based upon historical facts. Registration allways preceeds confiscation.
Built around an antique barrel (exempt from registration as a weapon by law), this is one gun they can't at the present time force me to beg for. What follows is the wild use of modern power tools conbined with a low budjet toolbox and lots of hard labour. Building something like this is a journey in history, there's a lot of research behind it and a lot of thinking along the way. Some things ended up where I planned them to, others took a completely different path.
I started out with the plans of George Lauber which I did not trust based upon the feedback on this forum, and after finding some small flaws in his drawings I just drew up my own plans so I would be sure it worked. It's after all just basic geometry, 15'th century technology...... nothing mystical about it at all, but built like clockwork.
Any nice blackpowder weapon needs accessories, and I've just started with the powder horn. The dekor is inspired by my interest in medical chemistry, with Atropa belladonna on the front and Papaver somniferum on the back surface, topped off with a northern euopean adder on the spine. A spanner and priming horn are in the planning stages, and just for fun I'm going to make a scpoe mount for it. This gun looks bloody awsome with a scope.
I've never been one to follow standard procedure and I love to make something unique, so when I started on this project I didn't set out to make any excact copy of an existing gun, but rather to express myself within the technological and estetic flavor of the time period. I guess that few will be able to spot my departures from the originals, but feel free to comment.
The whole journey started out with the discovery of a 10,4x38 vetterli barrel sticking out of the ground with barb wire wrapped around its chamber, not too far from the Norma Ammunition factory. Not being a man who can pass a washer or a screw without putting it in my pocket, I wasted no time in thinking out a plan for my newly discovered treasure. The laws are such in my country that all arms are required to be registered, whether they pose a threat to society or not. Crawling on my knees to the local police station to beg for a licence is just not my style. You have to show good cause to own more than one weapon in the same calibre here, blackpowder replicas are also required to be registered. So I found a wonderful loop hole in the law.
Being raised in Australia I have a cultural bias against authority, we were a people decended from convicts, and the distrust against government runs deep in Norway as well. My sceptisism against registration is based upon historical facts. Registration allways preceeds confiscation.
Built around an antique barrel (exempt from registration as a weapon by law), this is one gun they can't at the present time force me to beg for. What follows is the wild use of modern power tools conbined with a low budjet toolbox and lots of hard labour. Building something like this is a journey in history, there's a lot of research behind it and a lot of thinking along the way. Some things ended up where I planned them to, others took a completely different path.
I started out with the plans of George Lauber which I did not trust based upon the feedback on this forum, and after finding some small flaws in his drawings I just drew up my own plans so I would be sure it worked. It's after all just basic geometry, 15'th century technology...... nothing mystical about it at all, but built like clockwork.
Any nice blackpowder weapon needs accessories, and I've just started with the powder horn. The dekor is inspired by my interest in medical chemistry, with Atropa belladonna on the front and Papaver somniferum on the back surface, topped off with a northern euopean adder on the spine. A spanner and priming horn are in the planning stages, and just for fun I'm going to make a scpoe mount for it. This gun looks bloody awsome with a scope.
