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Offline tallbear

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Blunderbuss with a Story
« on: January 29, 2020, 07:22:13 PM »
  Most of my work is based on existing examples.This Blunderbuss(at the request of the owner) has a bit of a story.He lives out west and does fur trade.He found fort inventories with blunderbuss's listed that had been repaired/restocked? after they were obsolete and shipped west.My version represents  one of those possible restocks which explains the patchbox and maple stock  ;D ;D ;D I made the bayonet and mechanism and the barrel is a .75 cal Getz barrel.The gun is loosely on a couple of different originals.A special thanks to runastav  who posted his making of a flip out bayonet as his photo's of the mechanism were a big help.Anyway it will be on my table at Lewisburg and Lake Cumberland shows.Stop by and say hi!!!

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Offline D. Taylor Sapergia

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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2020, 08:02:08 PM »
Pretty darn cool Mitch!  There's something about these things that is very appealing to me.  Nicely done.
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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2020, 08:44:20 PM »
I agree- VERY intriguing indeed.
Who'd have thought we'd see another flip bayonet Blunderbuss so quickly?
Well done.
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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2020, 08:50:59 PM »
 Appealing, intriguing and intimidating, Really cool looking.

  Tim 
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Offline Eric Kettenburg

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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2020, 09:03:51 PM »
THAT.   IS.   COOL!
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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2020, 12:38:10 PM »
Very Nice gun tallbear! The bayonet is funksjon good i hope, I must hold my grandchildren away from mine ;)
Runar
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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2020, 01:53:09 PM »
Now that’s simply NICE.!!!
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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2020, 02:42:31 PM »
I like that! Very well done?
Dennis
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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2020, 03:16:11 PM »
Cool project, Mitch..., and very nicely done!  Looking forward to seeing this as well!  Best,


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Offline bob in the woods

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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2020, 04:26:26 PM »
A Canoe gun !! :)
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Offline Justin Urbantas

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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2020, 05:46:07 PM »
Very cool Mitch. I think I'm going to make one for myself one of these days. Definitely with a flip up bayonet.
I was wondering if there is a reason the pin for the entry thimble is so far back?
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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2020, 08:14:59 PM »
  Mitch like all your work. Very impressive. But I like Bob in the woods statement.  But this is a canoe gun with severe attitude !
But actually a wise attachment for back in the day. I always wonder what all they made back then that we have no historical record of....
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Re: Blunderbuss with a Story
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2020, 05:32:35 PM »
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Very cool Mitch. I think I'm going to make one for myself one of these days. Definitely with a flip up bayonet.
I was wondering if there is a reason the pin for the entry thimble is so far back?

Justin

I have always pinned my entry pipe there which is at the back of the tab rather than the center of the tab for the other two.I find that if I spring the tang of the pipe down it puts tension on the  the tang and helps keep it in place.It helps especially with English style pipes who sometimes want to curl up even thought they have a embedded point to keep them in place.

Mitch
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