Commodore Swab

Well heck, walking around on an expensive teak deck barefoot can be a bit tough on feet that haven't been made tough yet. But then from experience walking around on a wood deck (in the sun) or coral rock isn' that hard on your feet. In fact I challenge somebody to beat me running in shoes over rocky, sandy, slippery terrain with myself having the choice of barefoot or boots. Personally I think pirates would dress up and go out on the town in shoes but when it came to pratical they would wear boots going ashore or tramping thru brush and most likely barefoot when sailing.

It doesn't act like stainless

We are pretty sure that this lock/pistol is at least 50 years old. The 2 pistols that the Viceroy has are identical only they don't have the "made in germany"

In 07 I was firing The mortar and the primer caught me somewhere and I started to bleed. In no time at all I had at least 5 people offering to help, I hadn't even noticed. A perfect chance to let a little blood into my costume

Im sorry I don't have a camera right now so pictures are not an option. A while back I was with the Viceroy and came across a flintlock pistol for sale. The "story" was that this was one of a number of locks found in a warehouse decades ago and used to build pistols, the Viceroy confirmed this commenting that he had a couple of these at home himself. Unfortunatly these locks appeared to be destined for muskets so the pistols that were built are in poor taste for accuracy as the lock is much too large. I purchased this pistol and brought it home. I sanded down and polished the lock making it shine beautifully, however simple oile was not enough to keep the rust at bay (I am on an island surrounded by salt water and live on the water). What intrigued me is that the lockplate did not rust but would shine up beautifully. The only writings on this lock are the words "made in germany" which has perplexed both the viceroy and myself. My best guess is that it was made in the mid 1800's prior to the civil war in germany for export to the US and lost to storage due to its being obsolete at the time. Since the lockplate doesnt rust would it safe to assume it is made of silver or something else? If so what else?

Would the thre "items" he took have anything to do with that?

So what is this show?

Well I supose we all know what Mad Dog will pick. Candlestick, that way he can have a candlelight dinner even if onlyone person can see . . .

What if your home is surrounded by water? Living on a boat on the ocean does make taking care of guns a PITA. I have a small case that holds 5 charges for my cannon, will store a flask with various measures. It was built around the size of 3 Goex cans and fits 1F, 2F, and 3F or any combination. It also has enough room for some other odds and ends. As far as powder recomendations go I further say Goex, and will add stay away from Pyrodex.

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Im thinking something like the middle gun http://commodoreswabsports.com/Viceroy.aspx

remember truniun diameter roughly = bore and breech roughly = 3X bore

That stick should be in inches. We use a similar device for scale taking pictures of bits we recover. Pretty sure that the stick is in centimeters, since the museum it's from is in the UK. Also, a 30-inch wide hat would be ridiculous in anyone other than a pimp. Hey, maybe that's who was wearing it when the ship sunk! I stand corrected, I failed to note the UK and actually count oops. Well at least here we use a stick thats almost identical painted black/white in inches

That stick should be in inches. We use a similar device for scale taking pictures of bits we recover.

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Thank you, that is very helpful

We find large lightweight stones around shipwrecks that have been identified as stones used to cook on, roughly 18 inches square or larger

I can recall reading in one of my books that dark or red sails were outlawed only being alowed for nobles. The reason being that when sailing at night they would not reflect the moonlight giving a tremendous advantage to somebody trying to close on somebody at night.

So lets see I have a cruder shelter being made out of palms, Ill take the bag since I already have a bayonet on the end of my buss/musket. On the way back I will scour for water left standing after the storm and use the bag to transport

On those particular pieces I don't have a price on just the barrel as decoration. Regarding size, 6 pounder Prices are as follows: Cast as a single piece of bronze and bored out 22,000-Barrel 25,000-Naval Carriage 35,000-Field Carriage If you are still with me . . . As mentioned with the liner 8,000-Barrel 10,000-Naval Carriage 20,000-Field Carriage The carriages are absolutly top of the line, most all fittings are hand forged or cast. We also have a range of other guns lengths from In Bronze Very Old style 14 inch 16 Inch 22 Inch 24 Inch 36 Inch In Iron 48 Inch I am going be trying to add another page to my website soon www.commodoreswabsports.com

Yes we cast those, they are each cast as 3 seperate pieces using lost wax. Then once poured they are welded (bronze welded) together and given the correct patina. This provides for a very lightweight cannon (hollow) that a couple people can move around. For a functional piece we can place a seamless tube inside that is bored and proofed before being installed into the hollow bronze barrel. The void between the steel and bronze is then filled with aluminum. It is possible to get a solid bronze cannon cast and then bored out but the cost becomes too much for people to be interested.

Tis a might bit small don't ye think? And only 1 cannon blowing nothing but air and some powder . . . I figured I would want to use black powder of course you only get one shot so you need to build it with lots of cannon then you can have more shots before you must return to port.

Something like this?

Why does everyone want to take canvas? If it is for shelter a tiki is easy enough to build, if its for collecting rain water well you can direct wain water by using palms easy enough as well.

Tis intestering how similar these are to items we have found (1733 treasure hunting) but at the same time different, we still arent sure what we have found