Superlock!

I'm in the middle of packing up an order for Gordon F. and one of the things going into it is a 1756 pattern British Sea Service pistol. How it works is that the guns lay on the shelf unvented and untuned until they are needed, unless there is nothing better to do and we have the time to go through the unsold ones and prep them.

As the order is processed, I (or Jeff, or somebody similar) will get the gun from the "gun room" and take it over to the "tool room" to vent, inspect, adust and tune. The deal is that before it leaves here, the lock must work consistently, with decent sparks and snapping the frizzen all the way open, ten times in a row.

Gordon's Sea Service pistol has some pretty beefy springs in it and in checking the lock out, it threw such big hot sparks that I was worried about starting a fire. The sparks were just sitting on the concrete floor, sizzling away for probably 15 seconds. Pretty cool!