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dyemaker said:
That looks interesting, but the website doesn't have much info. Can you give us some details? Have you used their locks? Are they designed to fit particular rifles? Where are they based? Sounds like a foreign company.
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That looks interesting, but the website doesn't have much info. Can you give us some details? Have you used their locks? Are they designed to fit particular rifles? Where are they based? Sounds like a foreign company.
wow neat!!!
there are some cool ideas there
check out the matchlock the guy makes
there are some cool ideas there
check out the matchlock the guy makes
(Can you give us some details? Have you used their locks? Are they designed to fit particular rifles? Where are they based? Sounds like a foreign company.)
I have no clue. It is just another link I came across whilst searching for photos of muzzleloaders I have not seen yet online. Im not sure but the converted firearms in the photos look like TC Hawkens.
I have no clue. It is just another link I came across whilst searching for photos of muzzleloaders I have not seen yet online. Im not sure but the converted firearms in the photos look like TC Hawkens.
I have also seen a few photos of 1850's or later Japanese matchlock revolving or turret pistols etc.that were quite unique. The technology lagged WAY behind as Japan isolated itself and the Samurai had banned firearms. Sorry, had to add this because it is relevant to the original post in this thread.
no problems I don't mind well placed asides
If they are T/C adaptable I want one!
If they are T/C adaptable I want one!
Now that is a spiffy lock!
This is a 1905 painting. According to the article on matchlocks, these are still being used to hunt wolves etc. in Tibet. Notice the affixed bipod.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tibetan_Soldier_at_Target_Practise.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tibetan_Soldier_at_Target_Practise.jpg
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So I wrote the guy who made these locks and he wrote me this back:
It always turns out an idea I have has already been done by someone.
When I was a little kid I wanted to invent the 4 door pick up truck. About 2 hours after my great idea I saw an old beat up truck, had to have been 20 years old or older and you guessed it...4 doors.
Watching my uncle split logs as a kid I mused that a machine that does it for you would work great. His response was 'I wonder where Pop's old log spliter is?'.
A number of years ago I thought that an online auction site would be really neat. A week later I heard about ebay.
Progresively faster rifleing. I thought it might work and I never heard of it before. Turns out Gain Twist rifleing goes back to the 1800's.
just a few examples that imediatly come to mind
It always turns out that way for me, that someone else has thought up something long before I did.
When I was a little kid I wanted to invent the 4 door pick up truck. About 2 hours after my great idea I saw an old beat up truck, had to have been 20 years old or older and you guessed it...4 doors.
Watching my uncle split logs as a kid I mused that a machine that does it for you would work great. His response was 'I wonder where Pop's old log spliter is?'.
A number of years ago I thought that an online auction site would be really neat. A week later I heard about ebay.
Progresively faster rifleing. I thought it might work and I never heard of it before. Turns out Gain Twist rifleing goes back to the 1800's.
just a few examples that imediatly come to mind
It always turns out that way for me, that someone else has thought up something long before I did.
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I tried contacting him at the address shown at the bottom of the page but it came back undeliverable. Did you get any price quotes? I'm interested in two of those locks.
no price quotes
[email protected]
that is the email addy he used to respond to me, as it is a .biz email that indicates it is a business email
[email protected]
that is the email addy he used to respond to me, as it is a .biz email that indicates it is a business email
Jumpshot
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Cool, that helps. Thanks.
I know the feeling.When I started smoking a pipe in the late 70s I found it went out a lot, so I started packing it with a short piece of dowl,only to discover tampers are a thousand years old.I invented short startes and shot cartiges,just about 500 years late.Smoking black parts I'm inleting is a nother one of my great late ideas...Maybe you and I should start a think tank :haha: By the by I think one reason match locks hung on was any one handy with tools could make one.I'm sure I coud turn one out but I dont have half the skills to make a flint lock,as for a wheellock I might as wel shoot the moon :wink:
A bit hard to do a conversion on an existing lock that would be reverseable, due to the flint lock snaps fast when released and a match lock falls slower and softer so as not to stub out the match, I have seen it done but using two locks that fit the one gun .That said there are some originals kicking around that were built with both a flint and match mechanism , they tend to have two triggers and a complex lock ,they date from around the last 1/4 of the 17th centry 
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Well, I inquired about those replacement locks. This is the reply I got:
So then I asked about the possibility of making a batch of the matchlock replacement locks if I could find enough people for a group buy, and I got this reply:
I said no thanks after I saw that price.
So then I asked about the possibility of making a batch of the matchlock replacement locks if I could find enough people for a group buy, and I got this reply:
I said no thanks after I saw that price.
Well if you are trying to come up with a steam punk gunlock based on the matchlock..., why are you keeping the match? Why not change it out for a butane pencil torch? Or maybe somebody could build you one that uses a piece of nichrome wire heated to red hot like a toaster element?
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Not a match lock but I remember seeing a pair of wheel lock dueling pistols from about 1830's. Looked like typical English duelers of the period except the locks. Auction company didn't have a lot of details thought maybe they were made for a period collector
