Looks good Hank! Amazing what one can do without a mill if he really puts his mind to it.
Bob
And be so tired as to be almost non functional for a week .Figuring out the hard way to do old tasks even when machines are on the bench never made sense to me.Bill Large never used a walk back&forth rifler in his career until we built one dedicated to32 caliber gain twist barrels and it moved on precision slides and stabilized by bearings.Getting the most work done with the least amount of S.E.A* work is my way.
Bob Roller *S.E.A. means Sweat-Effort-Aggravation.
Mr. Roller, what can be said here?
Bob, my comment doesn’t apply to me! I have a fully equipped shop, 13 inch lathe, Bridgeport mill, surface grinder, 20 inch bandsaw, tool grinder…even have a shaper and die filer. And believe me…I use them.
Bob
You do have a nice shop Bob. Machine tools obviously save time and effort but it's hard for me to justify the expense of store bought equipment to build the occasional gun or two. So, we'll keep on scratching out parts with the tools and equipment available no matter how long it takes. We'll keep on posting the process and steps taken to make parts like this hopefully to let others that don't have or can't afford machine tools know, and see, what can be accomplished with minimal tools and equipment.
Now, about the locks -i've decided to go with Siler internals and modify the frizzens much the same as smart dog did with his Siler to English style conversion. We'll fit L&R hammers to the tumblers and make new frizzen springs. Lock plate proper will be scratched out of steel plate. I have yet to order the lock parts so in the meantime have started construction of the investment cast equipment to cast the silver hardware for this double. Even if it doesn't make sense to some. I'll start a thread in the
Shop Made Tools forum to let everyone know (and see) how this goes and keep it out of the gun building forum.
Hank