Strange barrel pattern

[mooncoon]

I started rusting a pair of damascus shotgun barrels today and so far have the strangest pattern coming out. I have never seen one like it before although I do think the striping may disappear as the rusting progresses

cheers mooncoon

 

[GMoon]

aye karamba???? my dad's seen the same thing in moe's bar. you might meet him one day, don't try to wake him though.

 

[Skinny 1950]

Two different metals forge welded together would oxidise differently, found this on the net... some really interesting reading here:

http://www.damascus-barrels.com/index.html

 

[mooncoon]

what is unusual is that the breach section of the barrels have been made with two parallel damascus skelps forged welded together presumably during the barrel wrapping phase as opposed to the two strips welded first and then wrapped. I have seen barrels made with a different pattern for the breach area as well as a pair of barrels made with a different pattern left to right (left barrel was one pattern, right barrel a different pattern)

most puzzling

cheers mooncoon

 

[billdick]

looks like my old bridge gun company 12 gauge. I has a pattern much the same.

 

[icehunter121]

I have seen that many times in some of the old shotguns I restored...kinda wish I would have kept them now..

 

[mooncoon]

I have seen that many times in some of the old shotguns I restored...kinda wish I would have kept them now..

I would be surprised if you have seen the barber pole effect of parallel strips of light and dark damascus. I have refinished somewhere around 50 barrels or pairs of barrels and it is the first time that I have seen that combination. Below are some other barrels I have refinished for comparison

the first photo with the plywood looking pattern is french and the skelp was made by laminating layers like a stack of pancakes before spiral wrapping and welding. The second set of barrels date to about 1800 and I feel illustrate a very simple and beginning style of laminated barrels before the elaborate patterns had really developed. The forth pair of barrels were assembled by Hollis and were from an economy grade gun. The barrel assembler apparently just grabbed two barrels out of a bucket and they turned out to be different patterns

cheers mooncoon

 

[plinker 777]

These are very beautiful patterns to my eye, some day I may actually get to own one.