New models planned for 2007
We just got back from our annual meeting with our biggest supplier. I'm exhausted. Not so much from the meeting that ran until after 3AM, but from the weeks of preparation for the meeting. It's like studying for an important test in school, you spend weeks of late nights getting ready for it.
At this meeting, which is held every March at a hotel in Connecticut, we go over chages and revisions to the existing models that we'd like to see and present the designs for new models. It seems to be an awkward time to have a meeting of this sort as it is several months into the calendar year, but it actually works out pretty good as it allows us to have at least a prototype of any new models by the start of reenacting season here in the Northeast.
I presented two typewritten pages of revisions to 18 different models, some minor reminders about little details, others some major new revisons based on hours of painstaking research. After that, we discussed the new ones. I'll keep you in suspense as to the details for now, but here's what is coming down the pike for this season:
English Fusil - based on an original in my collection, the original being a light gun made by Ketland
French Fusil de Chasse - based on a series of identified individual guns, we picked what we felt were the most common traits of a fusil de chasse (as opposed tot he mix of de chasse and fusil fin features seen on most repros)
Double barrel flintlock pistol - since the double caplock worked out so well, we refined the design a little and backdated it to the 18th century. The reproduction will be French styled since the barrels are side-by-side (British double pistols of the era tended to by over-and-under)
Spanish Espcopeta musket - Why? Because I always wanted one, and there have been a number of requests for one in the recent months. I got my hands on a proper miqulet lock, an original Spanish gun to copy the furntiure from, and found some great photos of an original stock in one of my books.
I'll tease you with these descriptions for now, photos will come as prototypes show up.
Wait until tomorrow night when I post pics of the new cannon lighter pistol...
At this meeting, which is held every March at a hotel in Connecticut, we go over chages and revisions to the existing models that we'd like to see and present the designs for new models. It seems to be an awkward time to have a meeting of this sort as it is several months into the calendar year, but it actually works out pretty good as it allows us to have at least a prototype of any new models by the start of reenacting season here in the Northeast.
I presented two typewritten pages of revisions to 18 different models, some minor reminders about little details, others some major new revisons based on hours of painstaking research. After that, we discussed the new ones. I'll keep you in suspense as to the details for now, but here's what is coming down the pike for this season:
English Fusil - based on an original in my collection, the original being a light gun made by Ketland
French Fusil de Chasse - based on a series of identified individual guns, we picked what we felt were the most common traits of a fusil de chasse (as opposed tot he mix of de chasse and fusil fin features seen on most repros)
Double barrel flintlock pistol - since the double caplock worked out so well, we refined the design a little and backdated it to the 18th century. The reproduction will be French styled since the barrels are side-by-side (British double pistols of the era tended to by over-and-under)
Spanish Espcopeta musket - Why? Because I always wanted one, and there have been a number of requests for one in the recent months. I got my hands on a proper miqulet lock, an original Spanish gun to copy the furntiure from, and found some great photos of an original stock in one of my books.
I'll tease you with these descriptions for now, photos will come as prototypes show up.
Wait until tomorrow night when I post pics of the new cannon lighter pistol...
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