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Offline Justin Urbantas

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1/2 scale furniture castings?
« on: May 07, 2018, 06:08:53 PM »
do you folks know of anyone out there that makes small furniture castings for 1/2 scaled fowlers and rifles?

Offline Adrie luke

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Re: 1/2 scale furniture castings?
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2018, 07:09:23 PM »

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Re: 1/2 scale furniture castings?
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2018, 07:21:24 PM »
Justin,

Here is something I can speak to from actual experience ;) I get more joy out of making simple furniture then out of complete builds.
You'd be best served forming your own. Not sure where to get them but industry uses big iron balls (like in pulp mill rotating drums and such) they come in a range of sizes. Between the balls and relief carved into hardwood end grain there is not much in the way of trigger guards that cannot be formed around them. Something like a butt plate can be cut down from full size stuff more easily then it can be cast from scratch and RR pipes/entry pipes are kitchen table work.  Propane/mapp oxy hobby torches are inefficient but sure do weld/braze little stuff well.

Old artillery cases are the stock you need. It works like a dream and because they are tapered a case gives you a range of thicknesses.  They sell for scrap prices. The book store beside the Saint john City market has a window full for 25 bucks a piece which is less then scrap price.
If your looking for ideas for a small musket "the Trade Gun Sketch book" has a .410 NWTG build.

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Offline T*O*F

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Re: 1/2 scale furniture castings?
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2018, 08:33:03 PM »
Mike Lea sells a set of castings for a youth sized gun.
His contact info is on this page:

https://start.cortera.com/company/research/k6s2kwq1l/michael-lea--daughter/
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Offline Justin Urbantas

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Re: 1/2 scale furniture castings?
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2018, 01:58:02 AM »
Justin,

Here is something I can speak to from actual experience ;) I get more joy out of making simple furniture then out of complete builds.
You'd be best served forming your own. Not sure where to get them but industry uses big iron balls (like in pulp mill rotating drums and such) they come in a range of sizes. Between the balls and relief carved into hardwood end grain there is not much in the way of trigger guards that cannot be formed around them. Something like a butt plate can be cut down from full size stuff more easily then it can be cast from scratch and RR pipes/entry pipes are kitchen table work.  Propane/mapp oxy hobby torches are inefficient but sure do weld/braze little stuff well.

Old artillery cases are the stock you need. It works like a dream and because they are tapered a case gives you a range of thicknesses.  They sell for scrap prices. The book store beside the Saint john City market has a window full for 25 bucks a piece which is less then scrap price.
If your looking for ideas for a small musket "the Trade Gun Sketch book" has a .410 NWTG build.
I feel like NW trade gun parts would be easy to do, and I can forge out steel parts pretty easily, but I was hoping for a source of scaled down brass English fowler parts. Is this the book you're talking about? https://www.amazon.com/Trade-Gun-Sketchbook-Charles-Hanson/dp/B00072X2FG

Offline Justin Urbantas

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Re: 1/2 scale furniture castings?
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2018, 02:02:38 AM »
thanks for the contacts, guys.