Author Topic: Brown Bess Sea Servise Musket (Read 2648 times)

runastav · « **on:** November 02, 2022, 01:22:00 PM »

Hi all! Here I have a BB musket who is converted to percussion with a very BIG hammer(Ugly) do you think I will convert back to flint lock? You bet!
Runar

smylee grouch · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2022, 03:36:47 PM »

Another fun project to follow along on. Always enjoy your fabrication skills and ability to figure out how to solve problems.

Bob Gerard · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2022, 12:31:35 AM »

This will be so cool to see !!!

runastav · « **Reply #3 on:** November 04, 2022, 01:06:19 PM »

Hi all, and thank you guys!New pan from partlock silversolder to original lockplate and frizzen in place.Frizzen is a cast part so must be hardened.
Runar

runastav · « **Reply #4 on:** November 09, 2022, 05:26:58 PM »

Hi all! Begin look like a flintlock

Runar

Justin Urbantas · « **Reply #5 on:** November 10, 2022, 02:10:31 AM »

Looking good. Great project.

Curtis · « **Reply #6 on:** November 10, 2022, 08:09:10 AM »

Nice work replacing the pan! Looking good so far.

Curtis

Daryl · « **Reply #7 on:** November 10, 2022, 09:16:09 AM »

You are an amazing gun maker/restorer, Runar.

Keb · « **Reply #8 on:** November 10, 2022, 03:47:11 PM »

What Daryl said. You are able to make something with nothing. A great talent.

BOB HILL · « **Reply #9 on:** November 10, 2022, 04:03:00 PM »

You’re always a pleasure to follow. Thanks for sharing.
Bob

Bob Roller · « **Reply #10 on:** November 10, 2022, 04:10:14 PM »

Quote from: Daryl on November 10, 2022, 09:16:09 AM

You are an amazing gun maker/restorer, Runar.

Yes! and the percussion hammer can be used to lay carpet or hang doors

Bob Roller

runastav · « **Reply #11 on:** November 11, 2022, 04:01:48 PM »

Hi all, and thank you guys I am humble :)Bob, good idea or a fishing lead sinker haha!
Runar

runastav · « **Reply #12 on:** November 16, 2022, 01:09:53 PM »

Hi all! Frizzenspring made ,and frizzen hardened/anneled spark like $#*!!
Runar

FALout · « **Reply #13 on:** November 16, 2022, 01:48:42 PM »

Runastav, the lock looks great, but I was wondering what you did to the barrel. I assume you welded it up where the nipple was, did I miss that part?

runastav · « **Reply #14 on:** November 18, 2022, 10:21:43 AM »

Hi all! FALout, yes a plug threaded in and then my buddy super TIG welder Alf J do the welding and it will be proof tested!Someone has done a ugly welding to the trigger, I reamake it. There is no triggerplate on this model, and a small square nut is inletted in front of the trigger for the tang screw.
Runar

Jeff Murray · « **Reply #15 on:** November 18, 2022, 09:02:26 PM »

always amazing to watch a true artist at work

flinchrocket · « **Reply #16 on:** November 18, 2022, 10:46:09 PM »

Another amazing save. I guess the tang was cracked at the tang bolt hole. Stay safe Runar

FALout · « **Reply #17 on:** November 19, 2022, 12:47:31 AM »

Really good work your doing there, can’t wait to see it when finished

runastav · « **Reply #18 on:** November 23, 2022, 03:03:51 PM »

Hi all! and thank you guys! Done, there is no entry pipe , nosecap on this model. And the ramrod brake springs are inside front and midle ramrodpipes.
Runar

yulzari · « **Reply #19 on:** November 23, 2022, 08:17:35 PM »

Nice work on this. I respect it is your choice to re convert but I am always sorry to see part of an old gun’s history deleted. I chose not to reconvert my Nock Baker Rifle, seeing the percussioning as part of it’s history. But each to their own.

I can easily be proved wrong by the Bess and stamps cognoscenti but to me it looks like a commercial musket and, by the style of percussioning and the ramrod, the work seems to have been done in continental Europe. However, I suspect that the lock and trigger never began life on this gun.

My old trade ‘Bess’ musket was similarly Sea Service-ish in stock style bar not being percussioned, but awfully well eroded around the touch hole. I dare say I will be corrected. FWIW mine was painted black which was not uncommon for trade ones. A leading expert on Ordnance muskets gave me a very sharp virtual rap over the knuckles for passingly calling it a Bess. Deservedly so. Mine was the best musket I have ever owned for a fit to me. Mounting so automatically it could have been made just for me by one of the finest gunmakers and not in some grubby Birmingham back street tenement down to the lowest price. Hopefully yours will be as kind to you.

I look forward to seeing the end result. The workmanship is well done.

runastav · « **Reply #20 on:** November 23, 2022, 09:23:57 PM »

Hi yulzari and thank you!First, its my own musket and I am a collektor and shooter. And I agry with you is the gun rear and a mint condisjon we leav it so ;)This musket is not mint at all, and maby you right about the lock who knows! I live in the belive its a Brown Bess like the photo from The Rifle Shoppe ,Inc. catalog. And photo show barrelmarking the barrel is 37"
Runar

mountainman70 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 24, 2022, 04:28:57 AM »

Greeting Runar! Whatever this old feller is, you have,as always, done a remarkable job bringing it back to usefulness.
Here in WV we pride ourselves on being able to fix anything with absolutely Nothin At All !!
I hereby confer upon you, my friend, the title of Honorary West Virginia Mountain Gunsmith!
That , and 10 bucks will get you lunch at McDonalds!
Keep warm my friend,and keep on building.
Your workbench is the envy of many here! LOL
Best Regards,Dave F on the Mountain

Daryl · « **Reply #22 on:** November 24, 2022, 05:48:44 AM »

Good job, Runar, Most of us would never have attempted this "job" nor many others that you have so graciously detailed here over the years.
Thank you.

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