Scottish highland pistol fabrication

[Dave B]

Has any one come across any information on how the Scottis smiths went about fabricating their metal pistol frames? I have a carrige house kit with a ready made metal stock frame of sheet steel. It is not immediatly evedent how the formed it and welded it.

[tallbear]

Dave

There is some information posted here from when Paul Spalding and Bob Cerny built some at the Copperstown Farm Museum a while back.There are sevreal psts that deal with it if you search through the blog.

https://ruralblacksmith.blogspot.com/2010/07/scottish-pistol-project-part-i.html

[Dave B]

Thanks Tallbear! I will see what i can find there.

[Scott L]

Runastav made one from scratch in the late teens. Look here: https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=16486.0

[Dave B]

Exactly what I  need. Thanks

[runastav]

Hi Guys!
I mean the stock arch is the most difficult to make. So you can cheat, go to the junk yard and get some lampfot etc with same radius and sew it together ;)Or steel from the wife hehe!
Runar

[Maven]

Such pistols were also known dags.  Searching for that term may help as will Doune, an early gunmaking center in Scotland.