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Eric Krewson:
Ramrod day, all hickory ramrod blanks a oversized in diameter, you have to chuck them up in a drill and run the drill while you sand them end to end until they will go through the ramrod pipes.
After you get the blank down to size you need to cut a tenon for the brass tip. I use a pipe cutter to lay out a straight line cut around the rod and and chisel down to my cut until the brass tip will fit.
I glue the tip on and put a nail through the brass and wood to hold the tip on permanently
At this point my $15 camera fried it's brain went belly up so I missed showing a lot of the steps. I didn't want to walk back to the house to get my spare.
sleek:
Your scraper at the end of a rod idea was brilliant.
Eric Krewson:
In gun building it is common to put the front lock bolt partially into the ramrod channel when you drill the hole from the sideplate to the lock plate.
There are several ways to make room for the ramrod go in a restricted hole; Tapering the end of the ramrod to be smaller on the end that goes in the wood would be the first and most common option, using a smaller lock bolt would be second to have less restriction in the hole.
On my first build I put the front lock bolt into my ramrod channel, I tried notching the screw to give the ramrod a pass but often forgot to pull the ramrod before I pulled the lock, rotating the screw to loosening the lock bolt would cause the sharp notch to cut a chunk out of the ramrod.
I ended up making a wasp waist lock bolt for the ramrod to pass, this bolt doesn't need any special orientation to go in and miss the ramrod
Here is the wasp waisted bolt;
My scraper would have been an easy option back then if I had thought of it back then, it removes a surprising amount of wood even with that tiny bur on it, after I upset the metal I sharpened the bur with a file to get it like a razor.
Eric Krewson:
What does this mean? I haven't seen the top of my workbench in 2 years.
It means; IT'S DONE. It is a copy of a Lancaster rifle made in 1760 by Isaac Haines.
sleek:
Wow. Im extremely excited to see that finished. Looking forward to seeing it make smoke and how well it shoots!
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