Rebuild of an antique American Side hammer pistol

[Sam squanch]

I want to see!

 

[enfield]

Lock plate fitted , hammer roughly filed from D2 , tumbler tinkered , turned and roughly filed from some 1.2842 tool steel ...

 

[Sam squanch]

I’m moving next door to you! And I’ll bring all my projects and beer!

 

[enfield]

You're welcome

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

By all means keep it coming. This is exactly what this Forum is all about.

 

[DOUBLEDEUCE 1]

This is excellent !

 

[enfield]

The raw filed side plate and hammer in place :

 

[enfield]

Lock plate prepared for installation of working parts , outside profiled :





All the parts filed , adjusted and started to finish :



This is , how it looks after heat treating , annealing and final assembly :

 

[enfield]

Need for a trigger guard , also hammer forged from C45K , polished , heat treaded and anneald to blue colour :



After a first attempt for handle slabs ( which came out pretty ugly ) I made a pair of nicely coloured antique Circassian nut wood , made a sight ( same style as fixed to my Ruggles - Patent - Underhammers ) and a pearl front sight :





And this is , how she performed the first time shooting her free hand , 25m :



Now , after I've tinkered a slightly higher front bead sight , I think , I'll shoot her A LOT !



Thank You for watching and following my progress


Your's

enfield

 

[enfield]

Now - please never ever underestimate any sample of an even odd antique firearm :
Even such an odd old cracker was built with some , if not much , brains , thoughts and arm grease - and can/could serve as a sample for a today project !!!





I hope , maybe I could have given You an idea , what would and could be possible , if You only get startetd , ( even as an amateur like me )

If there were any comments , they would be more than welcome !!!

only my 2ct , enfield

( sorry , if I should have once more waisted Your time and patience for following my tinkerings ... )

But I still don't know , who orignally built the entire sample

any information would be welcome !

 

[Gtrubicon]

Your pistol turned out great! I love seeing and learning from posts like this.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

Excellent! Enjoyed it so much.

 

[CyrusP]

Excellent!!!! You did a great job not only on the build but on the documentation of it!

 

[Joe Stein]

Now - please never ever underestimate any sample of an even odd antique firearm :
Even such an odd old cracker was built with some , if not much , brains , thoughts and arm grease - and can/could serve as a sample for a today project !!!

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I hope , maybe I could have given You an idea , what would and could be possible , if You only get startetd , ( even as an amateur like me )

If there were any comments , they would be more than welcome !!!

only my 2ct , enfield

( sorry , if I should have once more waisted Your time and patience for following my tinkerings ... )

But I still don't know , who orignally built the entire sample

any information would be welcome !

Thank you for sharing your pistol and your recreation of it. These types of posts always interest me. If you do a Web search for "Antique saw handle boot pistol" you can see many examples of pistols that are similar to your's. Maybe you can find out who made it.

 

[enfield]

Thank You very much for Your answer .

In fact , I found a very similar pistol on "collectors firearms "( AH5563 ) , the only differences seem to be the attached and linked ramrod and octagonal barrel , probably the caliber , too .

But when I tried to open , I had to learn , that I'm blocked by this site ...

 

[hawkeye2]

If you ever decide to put these in production I'll take 1 or 2 or........

 

[The Crisco Kid]

That was a very interesting post. Nice workmanship, and thank you!

 

[dracer]

very nice work , and very interesting