Paulie's Lock
Yesterday I mentioned that I was working on a couple of locks.
Here's the story on one of them.
Paulie Garritoni walked in here one day last week with a funky old blunderbuss that he had picked up at a gun show for cheap. It was a middle eastern gun, with the really short butt that made it look like a sawed-off shotgun, 18th century style. The stock was solid, the barrel questionable.
The real prize on the thing was the lock.
A lot of folks make fun of middle eastern/African/Turkish guns because of their sometimes outlandish decorations. What they don't realize is that many, if not most, of them are built by recycling British parts. I've got an original snaphaunce in my collection that has done some time in Turkey as you can plainly see by it's decoration. If you look past the decoration, you can see an original 17th century English proofed gun!
Paulie's blunderbuss is Arab built, but the lock is a late 17th century original! My mission is to make the lock work again. Shouldn't be all that bad of a project.
Here's some pictures of it:
The front
The back
The cock screw is obviously modern. There is pitting all over, but nothing to keep it from working when rebuilt. The biggest part of this job will be to fabricate an internal bridle for it to support the ancient tumbler instead of relying on the cock to do it. Fortunately, when the Arab gunsmith built the blunderbuss, he had to make a new hole in the lockplate behind the cock. What this did is give me a spare hole to mount the bridle to. I'll probably have to drill into the tumbler and put a pin in it for it to rotate on against the bridle.
Take a look at the sear, it has a step in it which made it a stronger part since it could be made of a thicker piece of steel than would fit into the half-cock notch.
I love this stuff!
Here's the story on one of them.
Paulie Garritoni walked in here one day last week with a funky old blunderbuss that he had picked up at a gun show for cheap. It was a middle eastern gun, with the really short butt that made it look like a sawed-off shotgun, 18th century style. The stock was solid, the barrel questionable.
The real prize on the thing was the lock.
A lot of folks make fun of middle eastern/African/Turkish guns because of their sometimes outlandish decorations. What they don't realize is that many, if not most, of them are built by recycling British parts. I've got an original snaphaunce in my collection that has done some time in Turkey as you can plainly see by it's decoration. If you look past the decoration, you can see an original 17th century English proofed gun!
Paulie's blunderbuss is Arab built, but the lock is a late 17th century original! My mission is to make the lock work again. Shouldn't be all that bad of a project.
Here's some pictures of it:
The front
The back
The cock screw is obviously modern. There is pitting all over, but nothing to keep it from working when rebuilt. The biggest part of this job will be to fabricate an internal bridle for it to support the ancient tumbler instead of relying on the cock to do it. Fortunately, when the Arab gunsmith built the blunderbuss, he had to make a new hole in the lockplate behind the cock. What this did is give me a spare hole to mount the bridle to. I'll probably have to drill into the tumbler and put a pin in it for it to rotate on against the bridle.
Take a look at the sear, it has a step in it which made it a stronger part since it could be made of a thicker piece of steel than would fit into the half-cock notch.
I love this stuff!
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