TOW flintlock kit update 7
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2013
- In this update I'll be drilling the lock bolt hole, cleaning up and inletting the side plate. When I'm finished the lock plate will be securely fastened to the stock and barrel and I'll be ready to begin inletting the lock work parts.
In the course of this update I'll confess to a couple of sins that will likely get me shunned by the brotherhood of flintlock rifle builders. So feel free to criticize, just don't get nasty. - Sport
Glass bedding was brilliant.
Mike, Don't be up set. A lot of the trade guns had 3 lock bolts. The rear one was a wood screw with a lock bolt head on the guns today.
This whole series is fantastic, and this particular video is helping me right now. I was struggling to figure out how I was going to deal with the forward lock bolt on my TotW Kentucky pistol. The side plate hole spacing isn't really isn't a perfect fit. Skipping it seems like the best solution. Thanks!
I now know I'll never bother trying to make one of these on my own.
Excellent series of videos and thanks for being here.
I'm really enjoying this series! Thanks Mike!
This is very inspirational. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
Great work Mike, I love these vids
Mike,
I confess, I look forward to your "new video" e-mail notifications. Great content and a great presenter. Thank you.
Don't feel bad about using the bedding material on your project. I have a 1980 built, factory assembled, .54 cal. T/C Hawken, that I took all the brass off a couple of weeks ago for the very first time to polish, and found bedding material in a few of the inlets.
BTW. Very inspirational series. Please keep them comming.
excellent, I would have done the same thing with the glass bedding and the lock screw.
Can't wait to see it finished. Good job so far.
HA! BROTHER YOU KNOW THAT GUN SMITHS WOULD HAVE USED WHAT WAS TO HAND BACK IN THE DAY TO FIX OR MAKE THINGS STRONGER. KEEP ON WITH YOUR VIDEOS. THEY ARE GREAT.
/DAVE
If the rifle makers of the 1700s and 1800s had access to today's glass-bedding compounds, I do not think they would have hesitated to use them.
good job Mike! to heck with the purists, thanks for sharing this cool project.
I think from Track of the Wolf...
I own Peter Alexander's book, and it is fantastic. I've not read Buchele's book...costs a bloody fortune...so I can't say.
I would just add that I have a gun built by a very competent, and well known, gun builder who had a problem with that forward bolt on my lock. He had to file out a notch in the bolt so that the ramrod would go in. Even the best have occasional problems. Don't sweat it and do what ever works for you.
They didn't have glass bedding in the old days. They did how ever have saw dust and glue. Same principle different material. I like mico bed. works good and is brown and blends in with the wood when stained.
Another solution for the second lock plate screw is to drill a shallow hole, put some thin CA glue in there, and the tap the hole when it dries. I have built RC plane kits that use that trick.
I agree, but drinking that bottle will kill you. It's full of Kroil...LOL
I started watching your videos to see if I could get some guidance in my circa 1970s T/C Hawken kit. What you're doing is well above and beyond anything that my kit requires and I am utterly fascinated. Do know know or would recommend The Gunsmith of Grenville County: Building the American Longrifle by Peter Alexander or Recreating the American Longrifle by Buchele, Shumway, and Alexander?
No tool bench is complete without a bottle of Knob Creek! LOL
But, would just one screw hold the lock just as secure as two screws then?
I have never built a gun but plan to in the future. I was thinking how bedding compound would be nice to use in this project and then you fessed up! I think it's a great idea but why not bed the whole barrel?
I understand why you did the faux forward lock bolt... I really do. I still think you should have tried it though. If you had encroached on the ramrod too far, or the barrel channel, THEN you could have gone to the faux screw as a plan B. Just my $.02. :)
8:00 Nicholson files are made in Mexico now :(
I cerakote my barrel
We will forgive you this time !!! regards Bill
where do you purchase transfer color?
If you have a good fit in the barrel channel there is really no room for bedding compound, and no real benefit to it.
Yeah I can see the Brotherhood of Flintlock shooters telling you the Davy Crockett would be ashamed of you. Hahaha, hell if it works I say go for it, these TOW Flintlock vids are really cool.
You change butt stock plates?
got no video
Oh no, that would not taste good, at all.
DUDE I'D A SENT YOU TO HELL IF YOU DIDNT GLASS BED EVERY WHERE, but the difference is I would use high impact golf club epoxy, and before I assembled it, after I blended the furniture to the stock, id duracoat all the metal pieces I would wet sand the stock, let it dry good and then put a good cammo job on it, I went to a gun show and I got more for my nuzzleloader than for my other guns
So glass bedding is a sin because? Because they didn't have it in 1709? Sin on.
Oh, blind bolds! You are going to hell. lol
Hell in bright red lipstick.
For shame for shame ! Santa will bring you rocks because you don't rate coal . HAHAHA , just kidding . Good video.