Author Topic: So you think you're a gunsmith? (Read 9618 times))

rsterne · « **on:** February 12, 2013, 12:18:01 PM »

Find out what it was like before modern machine tools.... but be prepared to be fascinated for an hour.... Sorry it's not an airgun....

Bob

JerryW · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2013, 09:14:22 PM »

Thanks for posting this! Absolutely amazing. I'll never look at one of these old rifles the same way.

Jerry

Ddgrego · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2013, 11:13:15 PM »

I watched itall.Awesome vid!

stathisk · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2013, 06:05:39 AM »

it has all the crafts i would like to learn, the best video ive watched ever

KGatLC · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2013, 11:32:27 PM »

Thanks for posting that.

pyroboy33 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2013, 12:58:07 AM »

Thanks for posting Bob, that truly is a amazing show of skill and artistic ability, that kind of craftsmanship just blows me away.

Rescue35 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 17, 2013, 10:56:20 AM »

It makes one appreciate the modern equipment we have available today. I am in aww of the labor, skill, and ingenuity of our forefathers.

strever · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2013, 02:13:17 PM »

Wow
amazing skills back then

thanks Bob for posting it

BrainsB4Beauty · « **Reply #8 on:** February 18, 2013, 10:44:37 AM »

That was pretty amazing. With that amount of work going into the fabrication of the weapon, I wonder what, in relative terms, a gun cost back then.

QVTom · « **Reply #9 on:** February 18, 2013, 03:10:37 PM »

Amazing! If that doesn't send you to the shop to make something you're probably already too far gone.

After hammer forging barrels from flat stock, straightening, boring, reaming, rifling and making his own tools with the exception of hacksaw blades and files, he finds making patch box hinges and springs frustrating. LOL

Tom

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #10 on:** February 18, 2013, 06:14:08 PM »

great video...I happen to have a flintlock fetish too

MichaelM · « **Reply #11 on:** February 20, 2013, 03:54:07 AM »

thats an amazing video... have seen it before and everytime I rewatch it I just like it that much more...... I really like how they say a blacksmith knows his metal... a woodworker knows his wood... but a gunsmith has to be great in all those trades plus the specialties of his own...

john · « **Reply #12 on:** February 24, 2013, 08:25:50 PM »

From scratch in 300 hours. Incredible. Thanks Bob!

gene_sc · « **Reply #13 on:** February 25, 2013, 10:55:13 PM »

Remarkable skills. Fantastic video Bob.
Thanks for sharing.
Gene

Hanabata808 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 12, 2013, 06:19:02 AM »

Wow, that was an enlightening video!
The cutting of the rifling was particularly amazing. Well, everything was actually. The amount of talent put into that is astonishing.
Thank you for posting the video!

Symore · « **Reply #15 on:** March 12, 2013, 11:41:08 PM »

Great video, I never realized the amount of skill and time it must have taken the colonialist to arm themselves. A gunsmith must have been the highest payed of all the professions of that era.

sperho · « **Reply #16 on:** March 16, 2013, 08:18:01 PM »

Holy mackerel. No wonder why the industrial revolution was so impactful... I also did not have as much appreciation for the value of interchangeable parts until I saw them hand making the lock and even the wood screws. Yowsas.

haywire2 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 17, 2013, 01:52:22 AM »

I am speechless after watching that video. Absolutely amazing.

glassman98 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 19, 2013, 02:38:05 PM »

Bob, thank you for this post. It was the best hour I have spent in a very very long time. That is true craftsmanship at it's BEST.

Craig

Hanabata808 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 05, 2013, 07:17:48 PM »

Bummer, the video got removed

Can find another set uploads on YouTube, but they're all short little 7-minute videos that you need to view in sequence. I should have downloaded it when it was available.

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So you think you're a gunsmith?

Author Topic: So you think you're a gunsmith? (Read 9618 times))

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