Bwanna, I like old stuff

That lock looks insanely complicated. Must be a multitude of timing issues to deal with.

You done a wonderful job on that. Stock alone is a masterpiece by itself.

Love the shop photo too. Definitely a working shop.

Also, how the heck did you engrave that rock?
 
LoL, Every armorer I ever talked with has a spring story. Most of them start out with the words. "it should have been a quick simple job..." Bawanna at least you didn't run into a remake of my favorite story about an extractor spring from an m14. The punchline... "And the puppy ATE the part we were searching for. " We followed that dog around the back yard for a week, washing down every little pile with the hose looking for the spring.

Bookie, I really love the look of that wheellock. The satiny metal just emphasises how smooth and crisp your work is.
 
Good eye Shavru. Everything on Bookie's rifle is right out in the open. I don't see a single place where he masked a little boo boo or covered a little slip. It's super clean and looks perfect in every way.

Course maybe he didn't even finish the other side, still in the rough and sloppy.

He's done this a time or two though I can tell.:thumbup:
 
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The lock's guts.
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The unfinished backside.
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Welding a barrel.
 
Well ok make me a gosh durn liar. The backside looks as good as the front side, it's almost like they are the same rifle.

That lock is even more complicated than I thought. I love pictures like this. I could look all day. I'm gonna go look for your famous website, I never looked I don't think.
 
OK brothers and sisters I can't find the Bookie website. I looked back at all his post and don't see it.
Maybe somebody can pm or email me. I checked my old fashioned notes wrote down on paper with a pen and I have the Razorback books listed and such.

I'll keep looking, I think I was there before now that I ponder it.
 
Hahahah, I got a mental image of Bookie sticking his tongue out at us with the picture of the backside of the rifle...glad he kept it clean and it was the rifles backside ;)

Yep, I have always been fascinated with the guts of locks and that sort of thing. The great big High Middle Ages ones are probably some of my favorites. They take functional metalwork to artistic heights. Bookies work reminds me a lot of some of those, not the ornate thing, but the quality I mean. Obviously someone who takes pride in his workmanship, and with good reason.
 
Looks pretty dang serious! Hes got his buddy already clamped up in the vise waitin his turn and they both have smiles on their faces:eek:
 
LOL Ndog I just noticed what you meant about the vise. I was busy trying to figure out what the piece of metal was in the process of becoming and didn't even look behind him.
 
That is a Rev War holster pistol barrel in the works just hot from the forge. I am one of the few who actually do make "lock, stock, and barrel" by hand, from scratch, and with no electricity. (But I do use a lot of wooden tools,though.) Got the National Pioneer Award a few years back for my flagrant idiosyncrasies and psychosises.:eek:
 
I just knew it. I'm no proctologist but I know idiosyncrasies and psychosises when I see em. First person I ever heeerd of that fessed up to it.
 
Truth be known, Bawanna, I'm also a Doctor. Want me to give you a diagnosis?
 
Oh. By the by. Did I ever tell you I also studied Law, too? That was before I started making my own clear mouth worsh out behind the blacksmith shop.
 
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