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Offline Dan Fruth

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Gadrooning
« on: December 12, 2021, 05:24:45 AM »
Is gadrooning, for example on a muzzle cap, stamped into the brass, then formed, or filed after the cap is installed?
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Offline smylee grouch

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Re: Gadrooning
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2021, 07:38:43 AM »
I will make a guess and say both. Just depends on the person doing the building, his tools and training. Again, only a guess.
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Offline Lucky R A

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Re: Gadrooning
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2021, 02:49:47 PM »
Dan,  I had intimate contact with a Frederick Sell that had a chevroned nose cap and that was achieved by filing.   Modern made chevroned nose caps are stamped, a manufacturing expedient.  I don't think you would go wrong with filing the nosecap.

Ron
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Offline rich pierce

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Re: Gadrooning
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2021, 04:15:15 PM »
I’d hate to inlet a stamped one.
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Re: Gadrooning
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2021, 06:11:16 PM »
Dan, here is how I formed the thimbles for the Granddaughter's Jaeger.  Apologize for the poor photo quality/. The layout starts out as straight cuts.  Bending the metal is what introduces the curved look.  It would be a dit more complicated with the V shape required fora nose cap but basically the same.  The stencil for laying out the cuts could be used to layout the inletting line on the nose.  You can pick out the original :-)















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