miquelet locks

[chriskletke]

Does anyone know of a producer of miquelet locks other than the rifle shoppe?? Just curious trying to make a mid 1600's pistol and a scottish trade musket so trying to find me a lock.

Chris

 

[hollandbriscoe]

I can't answer your question but here is a link you might be interested in.
[url] http://www.trackofthewolf.com...=12&subId=78&styleId=266&partNum=AAC-618[/url]

 

[WRussell]

The best I can do is to suggest watching the auctions and look for a gun that's got a lock you can use but is battered enough that you can afford it. (Good luck.)

 

[marmot]

I can understand the miquelet for the pistol, but what exactly are you referring to as a scottish trade musket? All of the early scottish muskets I've seen had the wonderfully bizarre scotish snaphaunce sort of lock, with lots of little levers... wonderful to look at, but my prototypes #1 and #2 just don't have the little levers in all the right places yet! #3 will be perfect... :rotf:

As far as building the miquelet, Pryor Mtn. Bill Newton's book Flint and Percussion Pistols Patterns has a diagram of how to build a miquelet lock if you have a few tools and a lot of patience... not step by step instructions, mind you, but enough to go by if you want to try it.

marmot