Mood:
lazyNow Playing: "No Boom Today......"
This last weekend wasn’t very productive. Well at least not in the shop. I did get a great deal done that needed to be done this weekend. But it was more a case of catching up on all the work around the house and kennel that hasn’t gotten done for the last two months spent dealing with my parents passing and trying to make ends meet.
However I did get to play for little while this weekend at being another kind of Smith, a Gunsmith. In my fathers workshop we found a Dixie Gun Flintlock Tower pistol. I recall this black powder piece from very early on while growing up. Dad tinkered with it on and off for years. And he was never pleased with it.
Well yesterday I tried my hand at it. I added on the tang of the breach plug were the original squared off one had acted like a chisel on recoil and knocked out a piece of the stock. I lengthened a reshaped the tang to cover the missing wood. I then casehardened the frizzen to get more spark. Last I re-polished and re-blued the gun barrel. I have a little more polish work to do on the reworked frizzen. But other then that, I’m waiting on some new flints from Dixie Gun.
This adds one piece to the black powder fun day at Prado Shooting Park, I trying to set-up.
Next up to gunsmith, two CVA single shot cap and ball pistol kits that need finishing. Then in bladesmithing it’s time to cut shim stock for pattern welding, finishing up a pattern welded spoon and forge a fancy railroad spike knife.
And with a little luck I’ll get more news on the TV project today. About two weeks to go before shooting my small segment.
Scott B. Jaqua
Hagerson Forge.
