Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Prototype Rear Sights

I started playing with some pieces of brass tubing and 22MAG brass.
I came up with this rear type of sight with elevation only.
Brass tubing attached to the base with a 6-32 US thread screw in the center.
A spring surrounds that base tube and pushes up on the slider tube.
The slider can move up or down about 1/4 inch.
The thumb nut pushes the slider down against the spring, hopefully holding it in place.
The loop keeps the 22MAG peep tube pointing forward.



Left Side, Full Up Position.












Left Side, Full Down Position












Left Rear, Full Down Position

Left Rear, Full Up Position












Rear View, through the 22MAG case, as a rear peep sight.














Pulling down on the slider spring shows the inner base tube.

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Reminds me of Steam Punk stuff.














Feb/12/2014
Here is another one, this is fun.
This sight has been designed to fit at the rear of  "Underhammer Pistol, in progress".

Rear View.
It needs a lot of cleaning and polishing, it is rough.
Slider is positioned a bit higher, near the top of movement.








Here are the pieces.

Sight tube is a 22MAG brass that was picked up at the shooting range. Screw is 6-32 US thread.
Slider tube is larger than base tube. Base tube and slider tubes are soldered with low temperature silver plumbers solder, the rest with soft solder. Spring came from an assortment box from the hardware store.

The reason for the curly sight tube arm is for small bending amounts to align this sight tube to the front sight.








Front - Left Side View.
Sight tube is almost at the bottom of its movement.
Rear - Left Side View.
There is room for tick marks on the outside of the slide guide panel.















Feb/15/2014
Here is number three, this should be all for a while.
 Rear View.
Front View.
















Sept/9/2014
#4
.22 MAG brass for sight tube.
6-32 US screw for adjustment.














































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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Brass Rear Sight Up Close

Here is that brass rear sight up close.
Not much text just pictures.
Yes, the tang is removable.

All Pieces.
 Lead (63/37) Soldered to tang.
Slider guides are soldered to sight frame.
6-32 US screw.
Solder showing on the rear frame guide.
 Screw flush with rear of sight frame
 Solder showing on the two frame guides.
 Slight dovetail on rear sight guide.
 Sliding piece

 Slight dovetail on sliding piece
 Approximately 90 degrees for slider
 Approximately 90 degrees for frame
Thumb Nut and Washer exert pressure on slider holding it into the rear dovetail. Thumb Nut purchased at hardware store.
Sight to stock clearance.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

BHP #6 Upgraded, UnderHammer.

Here is one of the first rifles I made that used to be on www.garagegunsmithing.com (a dead site, too bad)
It consists of a DOM (Drawn Over Mandrel, no welds or seams) 1 inch barrel with a .50 inch bore.
Barrel Cost is about $1 US per inch.
A walnut stock, a free reject, from a website that sells better ones for $35.00 US.


Underhammer action with a floating trigger guard which is only held at the rear, behind the trigger.
Shown at half-cock.
Scope is 32x4, inexpensive of course.
This smooth bore barrel is surprisingly accurate, hits whatever you aim at.
Front wood stock is held in place (by friction) with two brass bands having two screws at the bottom face through the wood.


A closer view.










How the scope rail is mounted, on two separate blocks soldered to the barrel. Barrel is held in place with those two 10-32 US thread button-head screws right behind the barrel.  I suppose that if another caliber was wanted the barrel could be removed and replaced.







A closer view of the trigger guard. The action is a teeter-totter type, a separate sear. Those two visible stock screws (top right edge of picture) also hold the trigger guard in place.  Somehow the camera reports the trigger as rusted, not true.

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Feb/20/2014
25 yds, .490 RB, 50gr FFFg (777), blue ticking patch.
Top target was for sighting the scope.  Bottom target was for testing the scope.






















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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Parts and Pieces

This one is made up of stuff left over, parts and pieces.


Lock and barrel are from an old H&A kit rifle.  The barrel stub is the back 1/3 of that same rifle and is .45 cal.  Originally the lock was very stiff and gritty.  After polishing the insides of the lock, lock plate and the sear nose it now works very nicely, trigger pull has been greatly reduced.  Stock is soft Cherry.  Trigger is original but reshaped.  The dovetail there was for the rear rifle sight but may get filled in. A brass pin holds the barrel in front through an original staple.  Tang is soft-silver soldered (plumbing silver bearing solder) to the plug.

This project is not finished and has parts coming in from Track-of-the-wolf.com, the drum and drum installing kit.  The drum will be 5/16 inch x 24 US threads. Barrel is 11 and 1/2 inches long.  The lock plate does not support the drum and may get metal added (welded) for that support.  Front lock screw passes under the barrel leaving room for a ramrod slot.

Left side.
I am not sure how to finish the stock nose. I do have plenty of Walnut scraps for color contrast.








Trigger guard by the grip. Guard is made from brass strip, which was tempered, shaped and then hammered to harden it. Three brass screws ( #5 x 1/2 inch ) hold the trigger guard in place.













Shows the trigger hole.  Rear lock screw threads were added as the original rear mounting hole is just behind the hammer and cannot be used, the barrel is in the way.






 H&A stamped, no tumbler fly.













Tang, 0.25 inch thick soft steel, 0.6 inches wide.  Brass wood screw, the much used bench one, not for final usage.
















Since this is my first side lock project, things like this picture happen. The lock should have been raised in the rear a bit higher, too late now.







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12/13/2013
The drum is installed.  It came in the mail today, one day early as usual.
A popped cap is in the background. Yay!

I used the drum/nipple tool from Track of the Wolf.com to correctly angle the nipple and horizontal position (away from the barrel).  The tool was modified or narrowed on the backside about 3/32 inch to help move the nipple closer to the barrel.  Now metal must be added to the lock plate to support the drum and keep it from breaking away from the barrel.  The wood is not strong enough to support the drum every time the hammer comes pounding downward.  Nipple is 1/4-28 US thread or #11 cap size.


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Now back to further shaping the stock.

Range Report, Dec 18, 2013

It is shooting about 4 inches to the left, my POA was at the right edge of the black, centered vertically.  Since there isn't a rear sight yet, I guessed where to aim.  Load is 30gr of 777 FFFg, 11m (~12 yards to US folks) .440 RB, blue pillow ticking patch (~0.017 inch thick). Nice barrel. I need to find someone with a lathe to cut the muzzle square to the bore.

Oh, yes a spent .22LR case holds the hammer up to air out the barrel after cleaning.

Stock partly colored with brown shoe polish.

A piece of 3/8 inch key stock has been silver soldered to the lock plate to hold the drum in place and keep it from breaking.

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Friday, December 6, 2013

A Prototype UnderHammer Lock; More.

More pictures about that prototype lock.
Now installed into "The Frontier" pistol.

Here it is just like before, with new sear spring and hammer extension. The hammer extension will be shortened at installation.







Shown with new cover plate, held in alignment by two pins, one at each end.













 Hammer spacers are 22LR empty brass. sear and trigger spacers are aluminum and brass.

Since this picture was taken, all three pivots have full width brass sleeves installed to keep all parts centered.











Front alignment pin goes all the way through while the rear pin is only part way.

Trigger (at the tip) moves about 1/4 inch to unlock. You cannot tell when it is going to release, very nice.

Sear spring partly visible, below.
Hammer head has been shortened.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Two more leather bags


Both bags are leather and hand stitched with matching leather lacing.  Small bag is 7 inches wide and 8 inches tall. Both have woven fabric adjustable straps and tubular pockets on the right sides.

Back side picture show the one piece back & flap, also how the straps are attached.

Next shows left edge of small bag.

Last shows insides of both bags, standing up, bracing each other. Two pockets, rear one is narrow at the bottom, front one full is size inside.

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For sale.




















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More Bags Here.