Lets see some flintlock pistols!

[Robby]

Years ago I made a powder horn for a man that made beautiful flintlock guns. He must have seen something in me that I didn't know I had and sent me a block of wood, a barrel, and a lock that didn't work too good, with the admonition, just make the #$%^ D&#% thing right. I bought a trigger guard and fabricated the rest. I had no idea what I was doing and still don't know where this might fit in any historical era, if at all. I still get get a kick out of making guns and hopefully have gotten a little better at it. Thank you Tom for all the joy I have experienced in 'Americas first art form'.

In this state, if you have the components to load a black powder hand gun in your home you have to register it on your pistol permit. I engraved No. 1 on it for a serial number.
Robby

 

[dave_person]

Hi,
Here is a Bill Kennedy kit pistol I built last year. It is a match for my British officer's rifled fusil.

dave

 

[zneufeld]

Hi,
Here is a Bill Kennedy kit pistol I built last year. It is a match for my British officer's rifled fusil.

dave

Gorgeous. I love the color and grain of that wood.

 

[JCKelly]

Made this for Dad, in the last year of his life. Made the lock (not so well) from a kit of castings, started w a 9" octagon bbl "turned" it round, slightly tapered & swamped, with my file. Really don't care for machinery. To save $$, the silver inlays are two-piece, a thinner silver one soldered to a thicker brass inlay the same shape. The pistol is in a Kuntz style.

Old Geezer with a file

 

[Auldjin]

Not as fancy as some, but I always feel this pair meant business.

 

[dave_person]

Hi Auldjin,
Nice pistols! They must have been made near the end of Twigg's career.

dave

 

[RiverRat]

Gerry Scales and Dad.

 

[Walt For 2A]

Picked this up in a pawn shop for $75. Japanese repro of a Tower Light Dragoon. Took 3-4 hours to restore

 

[Barrel Browner]

Joseph Manton

 

[Fly103]

Pedersoli Harper's Ferry, built from a kit. .58cal

 

[Walt For 2A]

Joseph Manton

Gorgeous!!!!

 

[Mika.G]

 

[TC]

Here are two Japanese tower pistols the first bought at 2nd hand store and the bottom one at a gun show. Note the fine carving and thinning of the bottom guns stock.

 

[TC]

And a Pedersoli Charles Moore flintlock Pistol

 

[Compressorguy]

You all have some absolutely amazing skills and pistols (hint: envious) and gives me something to aspire too. Here’s my first go at a Pedersoli Kentucky flint lock kit. Got about 40 shots through it and the groups are tightening up as it breaks in and I learn to shoot it. Practicing my engraving skills to tackle the lock plate and acorn at some point.

 

[Kansas Kid]

 

[Kansas Kid]

50 cal swamped bbl.

 

[Phfinneuss]

HA! saaman, I side note,-

Oh!, I d better comply with the main point here. Here s my Navy Moll,-

 

[Walt For 2A]

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Just stunning!!

 

[Birddog1911]

I made this from a MBS kit earlier this year.

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What kit is that? What sort of work was needed to finish it? I've never built a kit.