My matchlock build -If anyone wants a look. Not yet completed

[GREENSWLDE]

Hey Laurence, FAB U LOSE !! Great job,we'll make a gunmaker out of you yet !!.. I wouldn't worry about the ramrod hole becoming a slot. By the time the barrels pinned in (it's in there more or less forever) it's only you who's going to know of the minor problem you had.. Surprising how much you can hide with care.. I do it all the time.. .. Naughty OLD DOG..

 

[Celticstoneman]

Lawrence, absolutely facinating! Great work that you are doing and I cannot wait to see your finished piece.

 

[Professor flintlock]

Not here there isn't. The proper screws will need to wait till I do a TOTW order or find them in the city next time I go. For TOTW I need a minimum order.
Failing that I will ask someone to weld up the heads and cut my own slots

Try Blacksmith Bolt and Rivet on the internet. No minium.

 

[LawrenceA]

Try Blacksmith Bolt and Rivet on the internet. No minium.

Thanks
Gave them a peep. Got good stuff
$2.50 for screws. $38 for postage.
Sometimes the Pacific can just get in the way of things.....

 

[toot]

What toot said! When I finished the Bridesberg I had two different phillips head screws in the buttplate (one brass) and everyone (I mean EVERYONE) called me out on it at the range. Even a kid. The screws I got for it were some very nice bugle /dome head stainless screws that drew zero attention away from the rest of the gun. They cost me a couple dollars. A pair of original butt plate screws? Like $36. You pick your fights with period correctness. I went the extra yard on the barrel bands, spring retainers, ram rod etc. Even the piece of wallnut I used for the stock repairs was from a board over a hundred years old. There's nothing like shooting something you built. Hitting what you aim at just seems like bonus, lol. Have fun.

you are so right, PICK YOUR BATTELES!!

 

[toot]

it is yours's and a lit of people would rely like to be the owner of it! you have gone and done it my friend, so don't pay any attention to THE NAYSAYERS!

 

[toot]

just remember that new or an original, you are bringing them back to shooting condition, BRIDESBURG, or MATCH LOCK. you are having fun with them, thank you for posting the post!

 

[Capnball]

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Sometimes the Pacific can just get in the way of things.....
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LOL, cracked me up

 

[Capnball]

just remember that new or an original, you are bringing them back to shooting condition, BRIDESBURG, or MATCH LOCK. you are having fun with them, thank you for posting the post!

Absolutely. Nothing like shooting something you really worked on hard. These are shooters, not wall hanging replicas or relics.
Neil

 

[Sam squanch]

Ah yes. Richard Jeffries ‘Beavis, The Story of a Boy’ Which is available as a free ebook. A hardback copy of this gave me my first interest in matchlocks. I have my doubts about the heat shrunk breech though. I must read it again to remind me if it was peened over as well. White hot in a domestic kitchen grate?

Beavis? Did he have a pal named Butthead? I can see it now....” heh, heh, put more powder in it, Beavis! “ Yeah, that will be COOL, Butthead, yeah! Heh,heh!

 

[toot]

CORNHOLIO!

 

[LawrenceA]

 

[Heelerau]

nice to see some fire and smoke, well done !

 

[LawrenceA]

nice to see some fire and smoke, well done !

Thanks mate