A couple of my home made patch knives

Dang nice job Lor...almost said it..Your diviness! Looks great man even the brass tacks pop!
 
Well, Bawanna. Who am I to judge other people's tastes? Some people don't like mine. You decorate that hawk any way you see fit. Just don't have any fooforah hangin' off it that would get in the way should you need to use it. It's been a long trying day in the smithy. Makin' a pistol barrel was fun
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[/URL][/IMG]and riflin' a nuther one to complete it and I figured you wanted to see it.
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[/URL][/IMG] I've had people out and out call me a liar and that I never rifled no barrels at all. I rifle my barrels with 5 lands & grooves....and I always do LEFT HAND twists! They can bite my fanny perpendicular, they can! Seems like everbody kept crashin' to my shop and buggin' me all day! First off, Kommadar Rifler, that know it all, came by and just had to help rifle the barrel.
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[/URL][/IMG] Then after he left, his ugly sister showed up. She's got her eye on me, the brazen wench. I oughtta send Miss Cutie Curls over your way.
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[/URL][/IMG] She just plain woodn't leave! Had to sick my dog Bubba on'er!
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[/URL][/IMG]and took to Miss Citie Curls like stink on my Momma's cookin'.[/IMG] Luckily for me, I perservieered, I did. Had to go back out inna shop to cool off. The reason I'm so good at poundin' iron is my secret tools. Here's my Boss Hammer I thunk up. Betcha ain't never seen nuthin' quite like it afore, eh?
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[/URL][/IMG] But, at the end of the day, I've calmed down, worshed my face, and combed my hair and am ready to step out on th' town! Anybody wants to come over, I garantee you'll have a good time.
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Im on the way Bookie! Hot chicks and steel! Dont get no better than that. She looks smart too. That rifling rig is a work of art itself and I really think you should apply for a patent on the electric hammer.
 
Thanks for the compliment. I designed my own rifler after building that one in the pic.
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[/URL][/IMG] Here's one under construction.
 
Gehazi, don't you go makin' them lewd comments about Cutie Curls! People'd start wondering about YOUR tastes.....
 
I was more talking about the home made bore machine lol, but the grey dog with hobo teeth wins
 
That dog would have looked right at home in my hometown neighborhood. Can picture him flopped on the front porch with the rest of the porch puppies whining in his sleep as he dreams about chasing something...the dream being the closest he probably has been to moving in the last year or 2.

That blonde with the curls is something else too. Probably somewhere in the top 100 hairiest women I have EVER seen, but it would be close considering some of my Aunts ;)

Bawanna, I am sorry you felt I was harassing ya, but if my harrassment prods you to this sort of work, I should send you a blade or 2 of my collection then harrass you unmercifully :D No telling what wonders you might create for me
 
Your wish is my desire Shavru provided your sights ain't aimed too high.

I'm still a borderline wood butcher not fit to carry Bookies school books but I'm happy to do what I can.

It really weren't harassing so much as prodding which I find I require more and more as the mileage adds up.

Been thinking about one of them jump starters for in the morning when my body don't want to play. Funny I don't have no trouble getting at stuff I want to do. I stayed home yesterday having stuff I wanted to work on more than what I work on here at work. I find that happening far more frequently too.
 
Shav, don't you go listenin' to that varmint! He just wants you to feel sorry for him and he also tells summa the biggest whoppers I ever heard. I ain't got no school books!!
I use an old square file to make a barrel reamer. It is backed up with a half (or there abouts) round wooden shoe on the bottom. Shims made from paper sacks expand the reamer to keep it scraping the bore walls. You can see from the photo just how fine the swarf actually is. I use hog lard or peanut oil for lubricant. The little dogs love it when I use hog lard. They know it's snack time while I'm working.
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[/URL][/IMG] The swarf is as fine as baby powder. Big difference between the two isn't there?
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I just dont git that square file reamer? Even with pics? Do you do the whole length of barrel with a square file? Thats a heck of a lot of cutting. Must be a long file? That must be done little at a time eh? Man id break that file off in the barrel and cry! Thats what id do? Your freekin good man! If I ever made something that nice i dont think i could ever get more than three feet away from it;)
 
O.K., Ndog....in a nutshell: A square file is softened and all four sides have the teeth removed and the sides still square and flat. It is then forge welded onto a 3/8" hot rolled steel rod. The corners are stoned until they are quite pronounced and you'd call them "sharp". A wooden dowel is sawn lengthwise. One piece is then shaped the same as one flat on the square file. Both the file and the half dowel have a groove ground around their pointy end. The dowel which is now called a "shoe" is tied to the file with string. The flats of both pieces are touching.
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[/URL][/IMG] A piece of mule hide was cut into a large washer shape.
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[/URL][/IMG] The hole needs to be large enough to slip over the wide end of the new reamer.
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[/URL][/IMG] The reamer is then ran through the bore by hand to make sure nothing is touching as it passes through. If it does, the wooden shoe needs sanded smaller until the whole reamer head passes freely through the barrel. Once that is accomplished, a number of long shims the width of the reamer are cut from a brown paper bag. The shims are slipped one by one between the shoe and the reamer to keep the square corners of the reamer in light contact with the barrel. The leather washer is then installed onto the reamer and positioned an inch or so from the far end of the reamer.
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[/URL][/IMG] The pointy end of the reamer is introduced into the barrel and the reamer is cranked and pushed through the bore. The leather washer slides off the reamer and onto the shaft. When the reamer exits the bore on the far side, a short length of it remains in the barrel. The reamer is cranked and is pulled backwards, cutting once again. The reamer travels back and forth very slowly. All this is repeated enough times to get the bore the size you want.
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[/URL][/IMG] Reamers do break quite often, but what do you expect with 500 year old, non-electric or store bought manufacturing processes? The swarf is unbelievably fine. It will smear like grease!
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[/URL][/IMG] Comprehende, amigo?
 
So you are reaming the barrel to caliber, not cutting rifling grooves and lands?

This is starting to make sense to me. Very scary when the cave man starts to understand.
 
A barrel must first be bored, next reamed, and then rifled, and in that order, Joe.
 
Think I am following. Though if your dogs are a stupid and greedy as the ones I grew up with they would all be hanging from the local junkyard electromagnet crane via their swarf over-stuffed bellies when you use Hog lard. LOL. yeah using that setup if you didn't get it that fine the file would be breaking every time you twisted. Just cutting the thickness of a paperbag each run through, How many runs does it usually take to get from bored to fully reamed and ready for rifleing?

I agree with Ndog's last statement though. If I ever did make something like that I wouldn't be able to set it down long enough to get 3 feet from it.
 
1. Well you stay the hell away from my mule sir! We aint havin that!
2. So the mule washer keeps the file in the shoe groove until you push it all through then its not really needed until you pull the reamer out entirely to add more paper shims if needed.
3. You must reharden the file after filing the corners right? wont cut very well otherwise will it?
4. Once you wear out one "corner" of the file you can put the shoe on another corner and keep cutting? Im assuming that only one corner is cutting at a time.
5. So if you still got pits or irregualarities that rifling wont get rid of and you reach your desired bore then your screwed? Am I even close?
6. Like I said before Damn your good! Your krazy kami:thumbup:
 
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