historicalarms
Ultra Member
I've been around for a couple of weeks and I guess its time to introduce myself. I have a smattering of hobby machining equip. including a 13-36 Chinese origin lathe that I've owned for close to 20 yrs now and a # 45 mill-drill (the heavy post model that House of tools used to sell) and a couple of welders (stick 235 amp-130 amp wire), Before my eyes started giving me troubles I was somewhat proficient with the stick but that wire-feed has been the bane of me, as well a oxy-acetalene torch, 20 ton hyd press...and a box full of files & hammers to make things fit "better" after the lathe treatment.
As my forum name would suggest I have an interest in all sorts of early gun stuff from building civil war replica BP canons from tabletop models to tabletop mortars to 1/2 scale ( 1.65" cal repica of a 1861 10 lb. Parrot Rifle, used by both sides) to a full sized replica 1863 Wiard Union Army canon that shoots pop can sized projectiles to a bunch of small arms replicas or rebuilds of 140 yr. old BP stuff. Currently working on a home-built "Canadian legal" rotating rifle similar in looks but not in actual mechanical construction of an 1875 Gatling. I say "Canadian legal" because it has been legislated that peons cannot own a working gun that fires more than one round per trigger pull and the original Gatlings fired just by turning the crank , they didn't have a trigger so the crank will not fire my design in any way shape or form and I incorporated a trigger mechanism into the design that cannot be manipulated to fire more than one round per pull... it is basically a 4 ft long single action revolver.
I bought my equipment with the idea that when I got "proficient with it" I would quit the construction rat race and start a gunsmith business but health reasons have kept me at a strictly hobby speed and I'm enjoying it .
As my forum name would suggest I have an interest in all sorts of early gun stuff from building civil war replica BP canons from tabletop models to tabletop mortars to 1/2 scale ( 1.65" cal repica of a 1861 10 lb. Parrot Rifle, used by both sides) to a full sized replica 1863 Wiard Union Army canon that shoots pop can sized projectiles to a bunch of small arms replicas or rebuilds of 140 yr. old BP stuff. Currently working on a home-built "Canadian legal" rotating rifle similar in looks but not in actual mechanical construction of an 1875 Gatling. I say "Canadian legal" because it has been legislated that peons cannot own a working gun that fires more than one round per trigger pull and the original Gatlings fired just by turning the crank , they didn't have a trigger so the crank will not fire my design in any way shape or form and I incorporated a trigger mechanism into the design that cannot be manipulated to fire more than one round per pull... it is basically a 4 ft long single action revolver.
I bought my equipment with the idea that when I got "proficient with it" I would quit the construction rat race and start a gunsmith business but health reasons have kept me at a strictly hobby speed and I'm enjoying it .
