Webley Wedge Frame

[mooncoon]

Below are some photos of a Webley Wedge Frame pistol I am about to start bringing back to shooting. About the only piece missing is the trigger guard plus I had to mill the cylinder pivot out with an end mill, it was so stubbornly rusted in place

cheers mooncoon

 

[tactical870]

I can't wait to see this one done.... Gotta love restoring the rough ones...

 

[vviking]

Ding dang it 'coon,
Some of us think that making up a flat spring is a big deal ...
You must keep us posted, this one's going 'subscribed'.

 

[H Wally]

Ding dang it 'coon,
Some of us think that making up a flat spring is a big deal ...
You must keep us posted, this one's going 'subscribed'.

Lol. X2

 

[mooncoon]

Well the gun is now back together and more or less complete. The only major challenges were milling out the cylinder pin and making a new pin. I have had to make a few screws of oddball size (36 tpi) and still have to make three springs; trigger return spring, the single action sear spring and a spring for the hand. I also have to make a square socket type nipple wrench and remove the nipples and make new ones. The squares on the nipples are a peculiar size. I think I will leave those projects for a while and loan the gun for display at the local military museum.
I would be a little more gung ho except that I am still questioning whether I want to shoot the gun. The cylinder indexes with a bump on the trigger stopping against one of the flutes which separate the nipples and possibly kept from rotating the other way by the hand. Kind of a loosy goosy cylinder lock in my opinion, particularly when shooting single action.