Octagon to round barrel transition

[RockLock92]

Hello,

Recently I purchased an octagon to round barrel for a pistol build and it doesn’t have a wedding band at the transition point. My question is how common was this? Is it indicative of a certain period or style? I considered attempting to hand file a band on the top flats, but then I got to thinking that it could be a neat way to set off my pistol from a lot of others assuming that it isn’t incorrect. I’m attempting to put together an American holster pistol similar to the pistols on Clay Smith’s web site.

Thanks,
Brad

[alex e.]

Common enough. I see it on trade guns,some military pistols on mid to early 1700's . Actually a hand filed wedding band looks much better than one done on a lathe.

[bob in the woods]

That barrel looks straight octagon to straight round. Would that not be more of an early 19th C feature ?  Every 18th C pistol barrel I've seen has been either tapered, or "swamped" 

[Mike Brooks]

You need to file a wedding band on that one. There were barrels that faded from oct to round with out a wedding band but the transition on that barrel is too abrupt. Most (Maybe all) of the old barrels had hand filed  wedding bands.

[RockLock92]

That barrel looks straight octagon to straight round. Would that not be more of an early 19th C feature ?  Every 18th C pistol barrel I've seen has been either tapered, or "swamped"

It’s tapered but it’s pretty subtle