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Hey gang, working late on a group project teacher thang on campus and took some time out to browse the old hang-outs and came up with this little bit of info, thought I'd pass it along as I know several folks here have these pistols. http://www.historicaltrekking.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9109 Have a good'un. Bo
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The specs are on the Privateer Armoury Available Page Let me know what you think and if there are any pieces you'd like to see made.
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I have a flinlock pistol I got from a vendor at a medieval faire, problem being it's covered in rust, and the spring beneath the frizzen is weak. I was told by a member of 'Blackberd's Crewe' to heat the spring to a grey heat and bend it, My old fencing teacher told me a good way to clean rust off swords is to run some wet tinfoil own it, and I wonder if that would work the same, Any advice?
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Here we will assemble examples of oddball, no-so-bright or simply hazardous examples of cannons from the past. I'll start. From the North Georgia tourist page: One of Athen's most prized possessions, the famous Double Barrel Cannon, was cast at the Athens Steam Company in 1862 and today stands on the lawn of the City Hall in Athens, Georgia. The Athens Steam Company was renamed the Athens Foundry and Machine Works in December 1863 and most reports name the Foundry as the site of manufacture. The Cannon is a double six-pounder, cast in one piece, with a three degree divergence from the parallel between the barrels. Each barrel has its own touch hole so it can be fired …
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I am looking for photos, drawings, blueprints.what have you, of swivel guns featuring a wooden "pistol" type grip, and or flintlock or percussion locks. There is also a specific photo of a french, bronze, percussion gun matching the above discription, in a glass case in a an english museam, that was lost on my previous computer and i am unable to relocate, Any help you can provide would be greatly appriciated! Thank you, and have a great day!
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I be searching for a diagram of the internal mechanism for a flintlock pistol that has the lock mounted in the middle. For example :
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The things you do for love! Typical of Canada's timidity regarding EVERYTHING "manly," the rules about guns are incredibly restrictive. I want to own a flintlock pistol (or 50) and as far as I can tell from their "Just TRY and find the answer to your question!" gun laws, it has to qualify as "antique" (that is, made before 1898 .... how they arrived at this magical date, who can guess? &^#$%@*&%$ CANADA!!!! ) I was searching the net for antique flintlock pistols and they want thousands and even tens of thousands for them. No Saturday Night Specials, it would seem. Anyone on this board from CANADA who has found their way through the Canadian gun law maze? C…
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Well this week I decided to work on something a bit different, a smaller pistol. This one is much lighter and shorter than what you might typically find. It is a boxlock flint (the lock is in the middle instead of being a plate screwed in on the side) so it a little newer than the GAOP but still old. The barrel is bronze and it is a flared blunderbuss. The more I look and feel this piece the more it just fits a gentleman as a conceled weapon or a lady. I will try to get some pictures when I can. Swab
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This isn't for research, but it's been bothering me for months. My eldest sister is helping one of our sisters out with her kids. Sometimes she'll watch Deadliest Warrior when the kids are asleep. One day she told me about a fight they simulated between a pirate and a knight. Wikipedia's explanation for what's going on. I know these may be fighting words on a pirate forum, but we both believe the knight should've won. But while sis is hung up on the pistol that still fires after being in wet sand (you'll see it near the end of the video), I'm all het up about what I call the Quik-Lite GrenadoTM. I mean, just how long does it take to light a grenado? Yeah, the pir…
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I found this online and had to share the picture with all of you. It appears to be over/under but it may be side/side eithe way the triggers are oppisite. And if you notice it has a belthook as well!
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As many of you know I am making the shortened blunderbuss, and the little boxlocks. I am working to add another piece to my line and thought I would give you a small peak at the drawing board. It is an english lock grenade launcher making it very acceptable for golden age as well as early buccaneer. Any opinions?
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Well I just finished reworking the lock on a more common India built gun and set a new record of 14. The record is how many times I can fire her (powder in the pan) without cleaning wiping or knapping the flint. Something to bear in mind this was an old flint placed in the lock and after missing on the 15 time all I did was recock and pull the trigger and she went off and then went off again at which point I stopped. I also check to make sure she fires easily on both sides and upside down. What I did to the lock was remove probably 1/3 of the metal on the main spring and frizzen spring so she now throws foreward beautifully as well as polish the internals. The frizze…
Last reply by Quartermaster James, -
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Ok more "pirates hunter" related but none the less, maybe some of you are also interesting in F&I war? This place sold very accurate early 18th century french soldier sword: http://www.theroyalsword.com/ The guy is from Montreal and is a very serious reennactor and so are its repro. I have bought for a very good price a prototype of its french naval cutlass and plan on converting it into a 17th c double clam shell cutlass.
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I have been approached to sell these fire arms by the manufacturer and I know nothing about them. They seem to be a bit nicer then was is common for sale most places. I love the shorter stockier blunderbuss that they have but I have never held one in hand. Any exp with these? ANy info at all? http://www.osvaldogatto.com:80/
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Bought a Deepeeka French Napoleonic Infantry sword to be made into a hanger. Has anyone else tried to do this before. Need to know how to remove the Grip and hilt. Sorry but have no way of sending pictures. But there's a excellent picture on the"Kult of Athena" website of the nut or whatever it is holding it on. I already have a nice bone handle for it. Thanks
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I am looking for my first cutlass and have seen many here talk about Baltimore Sword and Knife cutlasses. I have seen several on thier website that look great. But are they just for stage combat or can you put an edge on one and have a real weapon. Morgan
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A curiosity of mine....Many of us in the "Pirate community" are carrying some wonderful swords (love my Baltimore Steel) and many of the crews, including ours are training in stage combat. My thought was this......Because the only steps we know are the one's we choreograph and rehearse we are forced to fight within our own crews in order to fight safely. If we were all using the same "dance steps" so to speak we could formatively write out combinations that we could use from crew to crew. Our fight master has devised a system and a series of names for the moves we use. However, as a former dancer I was curious what kind of systems other crews are using and how much…
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Just found a very cool Spanish Broadsword Cuphilt here and here. As some one stated "the broad blade would be typical of Carribean type cup hilts.." ...or is it a fake all together...?
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I just wanted to let you guys know I uploaded a load of pictures from a small museum at Antigua Guatemala. Among them two very nice spanish muskets with worked butt stocks and some other stuff. My excusses for the quality... Cheers!
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I gave you my Spanish treasures (vizcaina, navaja, Toledo sword) photos, please give me some flying knives... I need to see some. I know styles were different... so any of you who are into blades, please help.
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Can any of you translate this for me?
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Here is a short video of some of the tests I did on a Privateer Armoury cutlass. Let me know what you think.
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I hope this is the right place to post this (if not feel free to move/delete)
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My wife would like to have a dagger for her costume and we were thinking about getting one that she could attach to her thigh. Anyone have any thoughts as to where to get one?
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