New here

[Swab]

Good morning-
I recently found your site and have joined, I still have about 150 pages of past discussions to look thru so I shouldn't be asking many questions.  I've been building muzzle loaders for quite a few years now.  As far as instruction goes it been 95% self taught so I may have some different ways of doing things that are not "traditional" and as always welcome constructive criticism.  I started off assisting the build of cannons and used cannon safety as a guideline for my projects.  To date I have not built a long rifle as much of what I enjoy is of an earlier time period.  Most of my work has been repairing India guns (I like learning what makes a lock tick) and blunderbusses, although I have been known to make a mortar or volley gun from time to time.  Dealing with an earlier time period most of my parts I use are from TRS.

One of my more interesting projects, a "hand cannon"




A blunderbuss pistol I did (bottom)



And my first attempt at a Nock Volley

[KC]

Welcome to the forum. Cannons....some of the coolest muzzle loaders of all time. Those must be fun to build and fire. I can see that upsetting the neighbors. This is a hugely informative site. Once you've searched the past posts and still have questions, there's generally someone here that's happy to help you out.

[Swab]

This is the cannon Ive got on the back burner currently, Ive done a couple waxes that will be ready to have cast without too much more work.  Im going to do a bronze shell around a steel barrel as casting in bronze would be over 5 grand.  As far as help goes I would really like to find someone who knows the intricacies of the miquelet lock and timing as the geometry is quite different from your typical flint.

[conquerordie]

Welcome. The guidance you can receive here is awesome. Love that Nock Volley gun!
Greg