Gun Engraving

Londonshooter said:
Want! Outstanding condition. Seriously I'm thinking I 'need' a flinter. Interesting that the barrel tubes are a little different from each other.
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Barrels were salvaged from a Belgian caplock. They were 32” 12ga, and I loped off 2” of the chambers for the breech plugs do they are 30” now. They were a poor choice as the are HEAVY. Oh well, live and learn.
 
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Londonshooter said:
Want! Outstanding condition. Seriously I'm thinking I 'need' a flinter. Interesting that the barrel tubes are a little different from each other.
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Well, there is one for sale at intersurplus for <$1000. However, it has been converted to cap and not a simple drum/nipple conversion but had new cap breechplugs made. The lock appear to be original so, change the hammers , fit frizzens and frozen springs and make a set of flint breechplugs and you have your sxs flint relatively cheap, just requires a little fiddling. I keep going back to it thinking I need that but I have two sxs flint relatively cheap to that I don’t shoot as much as I should so keep talking myself out of it. Is a Jones and iirc is listed as “black powder”.
 
Licensed to kill said:
Well, there is one for sale at intersurplus for <$1000. However, it has been converted to cap and not a simple drum/nipple conversion but had new cap breechplugs made. The lock appear to be original so, change the hammers , fit frizzens and frozen springs and make a set of flint breechplugs and you have your sxs flint relatively cheap, just requires a little fiddling. I keep going back to it thinking I need that but I have two sxs flint relatively cheap to that I don’t shoot as much as I should so keep talking myself out of it. Is a Jones and iirc is listed as “black powder”.
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That's funny. Mr. Nash recommended the Jones to me a month ago and noted that it had started life as a flint gun. "A little fiddling" ?
 
Londonshooter said:
That's funny. Mr. Nash recommended the Jones to me a month ago and noted that it had started life as a flint gun. "A little fiddling" ?
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It is clearly a converted flint. I would place it 1800-1810 manufacture based on it features, likely closer to 1810. A little fiddling…… breechplugs plugs are not difficult to make (if you game a lathe) and the lock being originally flint, all the mounting points are there. Frizzens can be sourced from Blackley or Dyson as well as frizzens springs and flint hammers. You should be able to get pan sections also. I think A little fiddling fits.
 
Example, these are the locks that I used on the above gun. As you can see, they don’t look the same. That is because I cut the frizzen/pan sections also off and lowered it 1/8” (iirc) and reshaped the plate and changed the hammers. If you compare how much fence is sticking up above the lock plate (under the hammer throat) you can see how much I lowered it. Just a little fiddling. IMG_2933.png
 
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