A while back, a fellow commissioned me to build him a brass barreled blunderbuss. I took on the task reluctantly because of my work schedule. However, he said he wasn't in a rush, so I took the job. I told him the first step was getting a barrel out of Ed Rayl, which might take some time. It did, but Ed eventually got me a couple of 10 gage brass barrels, one 20 inches long and another, for this customer, 18 inches long. The barrels showed up a month before Christmas but I am just now getting around to starting the project.
The fellow I am building this for really liked the muzzle rings I had added to a few of Ed's 4 gage barrels in both steel and in brass, one of which was to my own 4 gage blunderbuss. So, today I managed to rough machine the two brass rings, silver braze them to the barrel, and then machine them in place to their final configuration. ( A previous post on a steel barrel mod
http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=37545.msg360437#msg360437 )
Anyway, here are some photos of todays barrel work.........
Machining the rough muzzle ring...........
![](https://preview.ibb.co/hM6NXQ/IMG_1320.jpg)
![](https://preview.ibb.co/nLULK5/IMG_1322.jpg)
Getting ready to braze the rings in place.........
![](https://preview.ibb.co/gUdEe5/IMG_1324.jpg)
Brazing...............
![](https://preview.ibb.co/csdrRk/IMG_1325.jpg)
First machining of the rings on the barrel........
![](https://preview.ibb.co/kXmBRk/IMG_1330.jpg)
Finished........
![](https://preview.ibb.co/cguLK5/IMG_1331.jpg)
Polished.........
![](https://preview.ibb.co/mr4bsQ/IMG_1332.jpg)
![](https://preview.ibb.co/dsubsQ/IMG_1333.jpg)