Toy Cannon WIP

sunshadow

sunshadow

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This one isn't a knife, although it draws a little inspiration from one of Bruce Bump's Cut-n-Shoot knives. My wife saw a bb caliber black powder cannon on the web and decided she wanted one, what she saw was a cartoon looking thing, I was in my shop frantically making things for a show on Thursday, and got a wild hair, started miking drillbits against the fractional chart on the wall, miked a bb, and turned the barrel out of some 1045 shafting, took it in to show my wife (that's her hand) she got excited and wanted to test fire it immediately, I told her I didn't have time to broach the touch hole so it would have to wait, well, I got impatient, broached it, rummaged around in my mother's basement (I built my shop on her land so I wouldn't have to move it every couple of years) and lo and behold I had some a gunpowder can with a quarter teaspoon of 17 year old powder still left, and a couple feet of cannon fuze. :D

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I do not have in inner child, I have a repressed inner Viking, he forces his way out every now and then, those are the parties people are still talking about . . .

-Page
 
That gun crew needs a lot of practice ! You've got to fire before the pirate ship escapes !
 
I'm truly impressed with the idea of making a cannon. Its on my list of things to do too. I'm using at least a 1/2" drill bit though. :)
 
sunshadow said:
I do not have in inner child, I have a repressed inner Viking...
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Take care. Once the Inner Viking sneaks out, it's nearly impossible to put him back in Pandora's Box/the Genie's bottle... you know what I'm sayin'.

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I made a small mortar replica in metal shop when I was in high school. I had a lot of fun making it and that is what really got me interested in machine work. If you have any gun blue you can do a really nice job bluing it on your lathe. That same year the metal shop teacher and the wood shop teacher made a scaled down civil war era cannon that fired a 1" or 1 1/4" lead ball. I could see it now if two teachers made that thing they would have every federal agency in the school locking it down tight as a drum. There used to be a good journal that had a lot of projects like your's above I think it was called "The Home Machinist".
 
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