Matchlock Question

[tarawa1943]

A little while back I picked up a matchlock casting kit from another forum’s classifieds section. It is one from the Rifle Shop. I am not sure exactly how it goes together, but at first it needs a lot of cleaning up. Filing, grinding and polishing!
Fast forward a week or two and I have the chance to purchase a few (not sure how many) matchlocks with various deficiencies, one without a lock altogether. I don’t know what prompted me to buy that casting kit, but now I have found a use for it. One of the other guns supposedly has a piece of wood missing from. the stock.
If anyone put together one of the matchlocks, I could probably use a sketch.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Here you go ... see link and see attached plans as a PDF file:

https://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/04/matchlocks.html?m=1

Drawings can be found here, definitely bookmark this website! http://feuerwaffen.ch/drawings.h

This might specifically be the one: https://feuerwaffen.ch/index_htm_files/Draw_11_MatchMusket.pdf

Also show me/us the shape of your lock plate and I can probably send you detailed photos of the lock interior to 'match', no pun intended ...

 

[TobJohn]

Some of the schematics on that site have mistakes, so be careful using them. The button placement on the tinder lock is completely wrong on page 8 of the pdf and they had a wheellock pistol (now removed) that was wrong in every mechanical detail.

 

[tarawa1943]

Awesome site. Thanks!!!!