Commodore Swab
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From the album: More fun Projects
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From the album: More fun Projects
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: More fun Projects
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I was amazed as well, i am a little surprised nobody noticed the "other" blunder pieces in the picture
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Unbelievable. I called the rifle shoppe on Tuesday morning to order a triggerguard for the buss. This morning I went to the bank to see if they had charged the card since I couldn't get ahold of them. The money was gone and this afternoon the triggerguard arrived! Ordered on Tuesday arrived on Friday, that has got to be some record for the Rifle Shoppe.
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No work was done on the Blunderbuss today, instead I worked on something else on the lathe.
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Progress is made and disaster strikes . . . . I started by cutting out the thimble on the lathe (some old bronze shaft I recovered from a wreck) Then a tab gets welded on After this it gets put into the mill and trued up then back into the lathe to be bored out (sorry forgot to take pics of that) The tabs and tang also get welded onto the buss. As this was bored from a solid steel shaft there is no need for a breech plug. Now I was slightly misleading when I said disaster strikes. The frizzen spring screw wouldnt hold the spring well and under inspection I found there to be no threads on it. Also the spring for the trigger was broken. To fix the frizzen spring I decided to try welding onto the original screw (much harder than it sounds due to the metal) and tap the hole to a slightly larger size. Of course to tap the hole I needed to remove the main spring which requires removing everything else. The cracked trigger spring The "glob" welded onto the original screw (to the left of the cock) The "new" old screw with the new threads cut As for the cracked trigger spring sometimes its best if somebody isnt around to tell you you cant do something. I welded that up by just tapping it with the TiG pratically then quenched it in water, it took a couple trys of tempering but she is now back in the lock and it all functions great, the frizzen is the best its ever been.
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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From the album: Spanish Blunderbuss Project
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True most of the muskets are banded although this is a blunderbuss and the few blunderbuss examples are not banded unless setup for a swivel. Also with the french styled spanish lock I have decided to pin it. Today I am going to see what can be done about welding on it and another piece. There likely won't be updates for a while as I am going to have to wait for the triggerguard from the rifle shoppe.
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Jim aka Sutlerjohn made my baldric, it was reasonably priced and he was a pleasure to work with.
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I like how the buss is turning out, found a triggerguard and m going to haso that will slow things a bitve to wait for deliver though
