wes1761 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Here are the beginning pics of my new 'buss....opted for a Cherry stock instead of the black walnut: Cherry block: Stock blank: Will start inletting for barrel and drill ramrod hole tomorrow.... If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas. Hook Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Congratulations Dad! Going to pass out some cigars? Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyBarbossa Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Damnit man! Ye have me incredibly, utterly, patheticly JEALOUS of ye now! ::: whimpers; drooling over the yet-to-be-finished weapon::: ~Lady B Tempt Fate! an' toss 't all t' Hell!" "I'm completely innocent of whatever crime I've committed." The one, the only,... the infamous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Morris Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I too am jealous of ye...Maybe one day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted April 15, 2011 Author Share Posted April 15, 2011 Actually started to inlet for breech, only had 3 loads of laundry to fold so I got more shop time....hee hee har har: If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Swab Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 hows that inleting going for the tapered barrel, fun eh . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 Lots o fun there for sure! But I do have a little ball rasp that fits in the dremel....saves some time If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Swab Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 depending on your bore try a sanding drum for a drill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 I have not measured the bore with a mic yet, but I am fairly certain its a .75.....looks just like an old Jack Garner barrel I had a few years ago. Either way, a good sharp chisel (gouge) works too, I just take her pretty slow.....I also use candle soot or lamp black to find the high spots. If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Inletting progress: If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemenScotty Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 (whistles!) lookin' good lad..lookin' good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 More progress....inletting for lock on the way: If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Swab Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 So is it a race between your buss and mine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 LOL...if I hurry I'll probably run a chisel through my hand!!! 2 different style, 2 different builders, both gonna be cool and go boom.... nyah nayh...mines cooler!!! lol (only kidding!!) If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Swab Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 yeah well mines older so there ha ha ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 Updates: I am gonna have to seriously start thinking about some of the cooler tools and equipment Vintage is using on his!! If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Swab Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I got lucky and a friend lets me use his shop. However, I am setup to do much of this on my own. A simple harbor freight combo lathe/mill really helps and isn't that pricy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 Done made the buttplate out of copper..... If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmanuelle Wilshire Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Beautifully done Mr. Wes, I am in awe of your talent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Maddox Roberts Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Is there historical precedent for a copper buttplate? I've seen iron and brass. Sure looks cool in any case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peglegstrick Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) This is a thing of beauty. Raw parts into a work of art. Well done Wes Edited June 3, 2011 by peglegstrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 The reason I did copper is I didnt have enough brass! I have seen iron, brass, german silver, and I remember a reference to copper parts. I figure I can explain it (depending on the year I am portraying) as it needed a replacement butt plate and on the ship I was on, I used a small piece of hull sheathing........more modern than GAoP, but I like it Thanks for the compliments guys!! Pistols are next! If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Swab Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Not to open a can of worms but would hull sheeting be copper or lead? I know on a wreck we are working on we have found a good ammount of lead from the hull but no copper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes1761 Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 marine archaeology has unearthed evidence that copper and lead sheathing was used on some Roman and Greek vessels, and from the 15th century lead was used for sheathing by the Spanish and Portuguese navies. John Cabot's son Sebastian, who in 1514 saw a Spanish ship sheathed in lead, may have brought back the idea of using lead to England, and certainly a number of English ships were clad underwater with lead in the 1670s. Other methods of protecting the hull were also tried in England and elsewhere, including an extra, sacrificial, layer of planks beyond which the teredo was unlikely to penetrate. The Dutch admiral Piet Heyn may well have experimented with copper sheathing early in the 17th century, and the British dallied with the idea of using both copper and brass during the first half of the 18th century. However, the earliest evidence of it being used in the Royal Navy came when an examination of the wreck of the 74-gun Invincible, which sank in 1758, revealed that she was partly copper sheathed. The first documentary evidence that copper sheathing was ordered for the keels of two British naval ships is dated October 1759, and in December of that year the keels of two more ships were sheathed in this way. Though experiments on other methods to prevent fouling continued at the same time, the first trial of a ship with a fully coppered hull began in October 1761 when the 32-gun frigate Alarm was sheathed in copper. This proved successful but few other ships were similarly treated. This was partly expense and partly because galvanic action had occurred between the copper sheets and the iron bolts by which the planks of the Alarm's hull was secured to her timbers. Though a sloop called the Swallow was built in 1770 with copper bolts, thus becoming the first ship whose underwater hull was totally copper fastened, it was some years before the copper sheathing of smaller vessels began. Then in 1779 orders went out to copper the entire fleet, and in 1783 orders were issued that copper bolts should replace iron ones in naval shipbuilding. Copper sheathing then became general, and other navies soon followed suit. If it was raining soup, I'd be stuck outside with a fork..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Swab Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 The wreck we are working on sank in 1733 and I believe was built in 1731 if my memory serves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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