Have a Pedersoli Queen Anne

[sussexmuzllodr]

and as most of you know with the hammer fully rested and even with the flint and leather adjusted accordingly it still lifts the frizzen off the pan and only lies flat at half cluck.
Are the remedies:
To heat the hammer and make it less steep of an angle?
Or to simply find a lock that will fit it with a better geometry?
As usual thanks for any help. As I know certainly others have had the same problem.

Suss

 

[wiscoaster]

I also have a Pedersoli Queen Anne and I concur with your observation about the cock at full rest. I can close my frizzen with the cock at half-cock, and from full-cock it strikes, sparks and opens the frizzen just fine. So for me, I don't think the full rest thing is a functional issue so long as the frizzen can still be closed at half-cock. If yours can't, maybe your flint is too large? I think that's where I'd go next since you've already tried the obvious stuff with flint and leather: by taking some material off the backside of the flint so it sits farther back in the cock jaws.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

I also have a Pedersoli Queene Anne and I concur with your observation about the cock at full rest. I can close my frizzen with the cock at half-cock, and from full-cock it strikes, sparks and opens the frizzen just fine. So for me, I don't think the full rest thing is an issue so long as the frizzen can still be closed at half-cock. If yours can't, maybe your flint is too large? I think that's where I'd start first: taking some material off the backside of the flint so it sits farther back in the cock jaws.

Thanks Wis.
I think it is just of the things like the the things that plagued early T/C,s and their locks and was never addressed.
Im sure the mechanics of such should not perform like a cinder block with a 396 engine in it.
Im certain there is somebody out there that has the knowledge on tips on how to fine tune whats there.
have a safe and Happy New Year!