Brass or bronze barrels

[Roger B]

Does anyone make them?  Grandpa wants to build an all brass rifle including barrel.
Roger B.

[Eric Fleisher]

Getz will make them.

[Levy]

I believe that Ed Rayl makes pistol, rifle and blunderbuss barrels in brass/bonze.

James Levy

[Kermit]

They're not "off the rack" items. You'll likely find that they are special items requiring (sometimes) considerable wait for what you want, unless they happen to be running that profile, length, caliber, etc. But they will do them.

[Bill of the 45th]

Depending on what you want, Ed Rayl may even have one in stock, and may be a bit faster than Getz to get.  Be prepared to pay a sizable amount more than a steel barrel.  All brass gun, does Grampa know that brass frizzens don't spark very well

Bill

[bob in the woods]

Keep in mind that the brass/bronze barrels are heavier than steel barrels.

[rich pierce]

Depending on what you want, Ed Rayl may even have one in stock, and may be a bit faster than Getz to get.  Be prepared to pay a sizable amount more than a steel barrel.  All brass gun, does Grampa know that brass frizzens don't spark very well

Bill

Bill, I guess he could steel a brass frizzen, LOL!  Wouldn't that be something!  It's the tumbler, sear nose, mainspring and frizzen spring that would have me worried the most!

[Kermit]

Yes, spendy. I talked to Ed about a brass (they're actually bronze) barrel once, and I recall the price being more than double the same barrel in steel. Price of the copper in the alloy, you know.

[Bill of the 45th]

Actually I have two locks with Brass lockplates, one a Late Ketland I got from Barbie last year, and a M&G I plan on using on a Lehigh  Stophil Long style.

Bill

[J.D.]

 Grandpa wants to build an all brass rifle including barrel.
Roger B.

Hmmmm, just think of the contrast of brass barrel and lock with forged iron furniture?  



God bless

[Michael]

I made a copy of the Brass Barrel Rifle and waited 17 months for ED Rayl to make the barrel ( well worth the wait!!!!).

[Don Getz]

Brass has become expensive to buy, which is one reason they might cost more.   But, the main reason from a barrel makers point of view is the fact that they are a real PITA to make.    When drilling the hole in a piece of brass you must
do different things.   There is cutting oil pumped thru the drill under pressure to wash the chips out of the hole, the oil
then circulates back into a reservoir to be re-pumped.   The oil flows thru a field of magnets to pull the small particles of
steel out of the oil.   Guess what?    those magnets don't attract brass, so you must set up strainers to catch all of the
brass chips.  After the hole is drilled, the blank is turned concentric around the hole on a lathe.   This also fun since brass
seems to heat up rather quickly and will warp, so, you pull it out of the lathe and straighten it, then start over.   You would also think it woud turn nice in the lathe, being brass.....not so, squeals, can do a lot of crazy things.  So, generally
speaking, brass barrels are not fun to do, they do look neat when finished, but must be priced accordingly...expensive.
Don