Commodore Swab

Im looking for some flintlock parts, particularly a lock. Im not particular about the year and can trade a small bronze mortar (finish level equal to the parts).

That was an intestering article and It can relate quite easilly to the smaller pices I am casting with a core. My core is made up of a very hard sand that I hold in place with 2 stainless screws. The screws go into the sand (not the bronze) and the sand holds the allignment of the core. Once poured the screws are picked back out of the sand easilly to be reused. Finished weight is right around 6.5 pounds but I use 15 pounds of bronze to pour ensuring a dense bronze as the article mentions.

Once upon a time (roughly 4 months ago) I was at our home in Thailand and was most curious when my brother-in-law commented that his gun worked the same way as the small cannon I had mailed to my wife (22 caliber) that I had turned on a lathe. After several days I was able to get a scope on everything. He is hunting rats in rice fiels with bait set up at a range of about 10 yard with a muzzle loading gun (roughly 50 caliber) that he was loading 4 to 5 small balls (twice the size of BB's) for each shot. The gun has a barrel of approximatly 36 inches with a hammer swinging perpindicular to the barrel the hammer hits a paper cap (similar to to what you would find on a kids cap gun). The powder is made in the village using 3 different elements. One is charcoal the other sulphur and the third is a white crystal (unable to determine actual use or what it is), I was able to bring back the sulphur and crystal and have been thinking about making some to compare with goex in their ratios and the black powder ratios which are known. All in all it was very intestering to come across a black powder cap and ball gun being used everyday. . .

I have one of my small cannon barrels that the casting didn't turn out very good (lack of detail in the sand) and while looking thru a friends book I came across a picture of a rather large pistol that has almost the exact shape as my barrel and is just a little larger. I decided to cut off the truniuns and turn the barrel down on the lathe to make this into a pistol instead of just melting the bronze down again. Does anybody out there have any other pictures of anything like this?

When I was refering to below centerline I was refering to long guns, technically a mortar has the truniuns where the cascabel would be. The early mortars with the truniuns mounted in the same location as the long guns were more really really short howitzers. Thanks for the compliment, which one though?

They are placed lower on older guns. Many maunfactures today however place them at the center for a couple of reasons. The first dealing with machined bores (which is that the topic was relating to) is that there is less drilling out of the metal and it is easier whether they are steated, pressed, tapped, or welded in place. When casting using a sand casting it makes it much easier to pull the mold out of the sand, to pull the mold using below center truniuns the truniuns must be verticle and the mold pulled perfectly strait. To place them below center on a lost wax casting is by far the easiest provided you have built the pattern. Currently I work with a friend casting cannons. I have started making my own now that are much smaller. Here is a picture of one of the ones that I'm making: The largest single pour we have done is a 1700's Howitzer that has also been classified as a center mounted mortar, this casting was done in sand and to give you an idea it was cast with a liner. The liner was composed of the bottom of an 02 cylinder welded to a 6 inch diameter solid bar Firing chamber/breech) that was drilled out for the bore. We required 400 pounds of sand for the mold. To prevent shrinkage of the bronze when it would hit the cold steel there were over 80 pounds of cooling head on the breech as well as the truniuns, requiring 300 pounds of bronze to be melted and poured. Finished the cannon weighs in at roughly 250 pounds.

I just listed my boat on ebay, it is not a pirate boat, more a cruiser but could be turned into a treasure hunting ship http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...em=200327986962

Whos interested and what are you interested in? 5 inch to 6 foot

As many of you know from my last post, I am now starting to make cannons and after reading about sea chests thought what a wonderful idea to poll a series of questions to gather input.

After looking thru a friends books (one you know well) we came across a pistol that was an almost ecactly what I am making. I am making scale mortars to fire golf balls off the guns recovered from a 1743 shipwreck. however loking thru his book i came across the chance to modify my guns slightly and make a slightly smaller grenade launcher pistol (flintlock)

Not at all, I would post a coin but that brings about too many questions. . . . How do I get into the chat?

Good afternoon everone, I have been an active member in a couple of pirates gatherings from Ft.Myers to Key West. I have fired many a cannon and many a pistol. and amknown as simply "swab" although my friends call me Commodore as they feel I have too many boat to be a simple captain. Greetings to all

If someone is interested in a trade, I could use some flintlock parts including the lock . . . What do you have?

Unfortunatly I missed PiP this past year (out of the country) and as work grows less and less I am selling off some items 1. Kentucky style flintlock 45 cal. good lock alignment (according to Cascabel who looked at it in 2007) but the frizzen needs hardening $200 2. 1/4 Pound Bronze cannon (1750's) 22 inch barrel resting on a English Carriage, can be had polished. The cannon is actually made from bronze recovered from a sunken German WWII minesweeper $1200 3. I am now also making 1:3.5 scale bronze mortars. Scaled down from a cannon recovered from the 1743 shipwreck of the Hollandia. The unusual scale was chosen so that they would be the correct size to fit a golf ball. You can find out more information at www.commodoreswabsports.com For those of you with questions the cannon was cast using one of Lawrence Campbells (also known as the Viceroy) master patterns with him at the foundry. The mortars are my own that I have been building with his help.

$100 email me at azevedo26@hotmail.com if you are interested Part of a local find (florida keys) with coins spanning decades

Average upkeep they say is 10% of the value of the boat per year . . .

Here is my previous fishing/diving boat (now for sale) Here is the "fun boat" a 18 foot hobie and here is my sailboat project as she looked 60 years ago and here is what she looks like today when I was putting the engine in . . .

I supose Im gifted with tough feet, I grew up in California and now am in Florida where I have spent many afternoons walking around on Coral rock . . .

How about going as many of the pirates had to, bare foot . . .

Sophie

I have been a part of pirates in Ft Meyers as well as Key west and am new here on these forums. Being young and new I did not have a sufficiant name until tonight (I live in the Conch Republic state of Key Largo). Here a party is common as it is everywhere else but a pirate party among friends is also very common. anyways back to the topic on hand, I now have a name and that name as it has been given among my peers in a real pub experience (bearing in mind I own a 18 foot hobie, 21 foot center console, a 25 foot chris craft which was recently "acquired" and a 40 foot vintage ketch which have all together been acquired for under $200) which I first disagreed with due to rank but seems fitting. Has been . . . Commodore Swab Take what you can and give nothing back

Just wondering if there can be any provisions made for those that may arrive by boat? With warning a friend of mine may be interested in sailing down (100+ foot gaff rigged schooner). And at the very least I will probably boat down again as well.

Crudbeard and Barbra have several other birds and drove all the way from Maine for this event. They did make it back safely.

I might ad You are wondering how the wind will be next year (traveled by sail down took 2 days from Key Largo) and Have already completly dismantled your flintlock to make it more "right"

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