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General discussion => Shop Made Tools => Topic started by: Gun_Nut_73 on August 08, 2018, 08:26:17 PM
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First, I apologize if this is the wrong forum. I had a post about underhammer percussion rifles deleted, as it was deemed not a sidelock, and therefore, inappropriate. I doubt I am the first person to think of this, but I have not seen any mention of it in previous posts, so here goes:
When I work outdoors, splitting firewood, handling rocks, bricks, etc, I wear out a lot of gloves. It is usually my main hand glove that wears out, with the offhand glove getting much less wear. I use top quality deerskin gloves, and while looking at a pile of slightly used off hand gloves, I realized that the finger tips made ideal frizzen covers. I also found that the sides of the fingers made excellent jaw pads. One glove made enough frizzen covers and jaw pads to last a year.
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I too discovered this use for old worn out leather gloves. All of my flintlocks have leather fingertip frizzen covers, and I always carry a spare in my bag, cause I've lost frizzen stalls in the brush while hunting on more than one occasion.
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I hadn’t thought of the finger stalls but usually use the unworn backs for jaw pads
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I also recycle my old leather gloves. I cut off the fingers and put a few balls of the various calibers of rifles that I have (.36, .45, .50, and .54). Use a bread twist to seal the top. I keep them in my shooting bag. This has saved the day more than once for me or a bud that ran out of balls or uses the one for bag multiple rifles and forgot to put the correct caliber balls in for the days hunt.
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I also recycle my old leather gloves. I cut off the fingers and put a few balls of the various calibers of rifles that I have (.36, .45, .50, and .54). Use a bread twist to seal the top. I keep them in my shooting bag. This has saved the day more than once for me or a bud that ran out of balls or uses the one for bag multiple rifles and forgot to put the correct caliber balls in for the days hunt.
I have picked the stitching for the thumb section, restitched it closed, then opened the tip of the thumb to make a ball bag for my .31, .32, and .36 caliber rifles.