Thursday 27 June 2013

Blunderbuss part 1

The next project is to construct a blunderbuss, which Wikipedia assures me is a muzzle loading firearm with a short, large caliber barrel which is flared at the muzzle. I've been collecting bits for a while for this and have enough now to get the basis of it put together. 



My aim is to get it quite intricate, I guess we'll see how that works out. For now it's all about cutting up a copper hunting horn from the car boot, sticking it to a £3.99 wooden stock from eBay, and screwing/gluing on the trigger from a 'vintage' cap gun.... Probably from the 1920s. Finally, a 36p cross was stuck onto the stock to make a start on the embellishments.





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