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Has anyone ever made a barrel from scratch?

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Sammakesbows:
Has anyone on here forged it from stock, and how would you go about it?

Eric Krewson:
This is an involved process, people who have forged their own barrel are few and far between.

Here is a video on the process, I didn't watch it but have seen several in the past and the start looks correct.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=forging+a+flintlock+barrel#id=1&vid=c1c27bc249509b5336ec593cb147c18e&action=click

The Colonial Williamsburg video shows the whole gun building process including forging a barrel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTy3uQFsirk

mullet:
One of the Fireside books has a good step by step description of this with pictures.

HH~:
I have watched guys in Mass bore then rifle by hand. Very interesting. The boring looked to be the important part, getting it as straight as possible. Think they got blanks from Penn.

Shawn

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