Quartermaster James

See! He's seen them too!

See! It's real! I told you I saw it! Now, if they can just get a photo of that damn pink elephant it was dancing with!

Hence the common thought that the Indian built guns are little more than kits.

I'll let Patrick address filing. To harden the frizzen the easiest way, you will need a MAPP gas torch at the least, and some case hardening compound (Kasenit). Follow the link I provided earlier for instructions. That said, I know of old timers who would harden a frizzen using nothing more than a gas stove and a blow pipe, and who used old motor oil as the carbon source for case hardening. If you got your doglock from MVTC, Pete will reharden the frizzen for life, for free. I don't know about any other company's policies. Alternatively, you could send your frizzen to TOTW and they will tune the lock and reharden the frizzen for $20-30.

Yeah, overly stiff springs are another common problem with these imports. Besides filing, another way to lessen the spring strength is to (carefully) hyper-compress the spring. Patrick: where on the spring did you file?

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Main Entry: trun·nion Pronunciation: \ˈtrən-yən\ Function: noun Etymology: French trognon core, stump Date: circa 1625 : a pin or pivot on which something can be rotated or tilted ; especially : either of two opposite gudgeons on which a cannon is swiveled

Congratulations mate!

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Any and all Native/ Natural peoples. As opposed to extraterrestrials?

Is the color through and through, or just a surface plating?

To the best of my knowledge and experience, breeches do not take a belt. Take them in if they don't stay up on their own.

Well, mugs, cups, glasses, and goblets, could have been used for beer, wine, and spirits (since you include tobacco - for which the clay pipes - as a recreational drug, then alcohol must likewise qualify, no?)

Actually, I'd be rather interested in hearing why people think bikers are like pyrates. Sure would help me understand what yall think pyrates are! Is it just that it's easy to group all "outlaws" into one homogeneous mass?

Well, if that's all it takes, then most small offices are similar to a pyrate crew.

Yes, I believe it was very late in the 1800's when Bayer marketed its new non-addictive morphine substitute: Heroin!

I wonder about this. Certainly the recreational vegetation of a few decades back pales in comparison to what is available today (or so I am given to understand). But can one necessarily extrapolate from American ditch weed of the 50's to anything from Asia a few centuries ago? Cannabis, Hashish and cannabis extracts have a long history of cultivation and use as drugs. Their horticulture and preparation were well refined centuries before Puritan and Victorian morals, and the Harrison Narcotic Act. I suspect what we have here is a situation far more akin to the micro-brew revolution: the beer available now is much stronger and tastier than what was common in America four or five decades ago, but that is not to say strong and good beer was unknown to the world before the 80's.

Not unless they can ride on water! Unless, of course, you're defining "pyrates" simply as criminal gangs. Seriously, on land you're just a common thief. It's pyrates of the present that compare to pyrates of the past!

I am very interested in your source material citing betel in South America.

Tis a challenge both fair and bold The OdorlessEye does propose: Less lead sent and more gold Delivered in words of verse and prose. That we may each, from one to one, Speak good words of honour and true And rising heavenward, liken to the sun: Illuminate our compatriot’s virtue. What kind heart this coarse form conceals, That seeks so to deliver other’s delight? The lady’s blush, the children’s squeals, Tis this gold hearted rogue’s true right. So, having won your bounty full, Eye sail for many adventures more. Wind to your back, with mastery and skill, To you: fair winds, smooth seas, kind ports.

Thanks for the links, I hadn't seen those molds before. I've been looking at these from TOTW. Yeah, I gotta get two too - pistol's .58.

Sorry to hear of yer troubles, but happy to lend a hand getting her firing. First off, whatcha got? Second, are ye getting any spark? Can ye set off 4F in the pan? If ye've got a good flint (what are you using? Black English?), have you got it set correct like? That you mention the frizzen getting grooved, and not just scraped mind ye, has me thinking the bulk of the issue may be a soft frizzen face. This brings us back to what you've got and from whom ye got it? Now, how handy are ye? If'n ye can't send your frizzen back for rehardening, you can do it yourself; either old school style with some old motor oil or new like with some case hardening compound. TOTW sells Kasenite, here are their instructions for hardening a frizzen. While TOTW insists on Oxy-Acetylene, for something as small as a frizzen I have found MAPP gas to work well enough. EDIT: Oops! Just reread your original post! Yes, harden the frizzen.

Très cool! Bravo Sir! Bravo!

So, what d'yall use for tow? There's got to be something better than "un-making" rope!

More! More! And, of course, congratulations ladies!