Please show me a picture of a an original grotesque mask buttcap that was mounted this way. I have seen and use your method on other styles of pistol buttcaps but never on the grotesque mask that Bob is using, always a screw to the best of my knowledge.
David
I don't have any pictures of any grotesque mask caps.
I really don't care how all the other ones someone else has seen may have been attached.
Attaching one with a blind system is a classy way to make the fitment.
It shows some thought and extra work, some pride in 'smithing and overall craftsmanship.
It's a common trait on European arms from the last couple of centurys,,likely earlier.
I'm not a historian
But why couldn't some one a few centurys ago have done it too.
Or did they all get an instruction sheet with their Pistol Kits back then telling them to use a wood screw thru the creatures head.
..So just run a steel screw in there and call it classy looking.
Same old, Same old.
..and don't forget to add the Stainless Steel Flash Hole Liner to the bbl.
Just like all those originals had.
FWIW,,and you probably really don't care,,,I recently completed a SM style Flint rifle.
I reshaped the long tang to a tapered shape and then a tear-drop style at the end.
The tang screw enters from the bottom of the grip through the trigger plate and goes up into the bottom of the tang.
The hole in the tang is a 'blind hole', threaded for the tang bolt which engages about 1/2 way down the tang.
So on the outer surface of the tang, it is clean of any screw head or shank from the tang bolt.
In that tear drop shape at the very end is a small dia wood screw (shop made cap head machine screw actually) in a countersink & down into the wrist.
Likely not the first time anyone has attached things that way, but not the 'normal' way.
Just a bit different, a little inovative and shows some thought and workmanship.
Whats wrong with that.
Same with the butt cap attachment.
