Doing some clays the other day I found that my right barrel sometimes didn’t fire. It just clicked. On inspecting the cartridges the indent was there but it wasn’t deep enough. So it looks like a new pin was required. I had some stock steel in the workshop so cut a suitable length and...
I’ve got 3 projects that needed furniture blacking. After tea this evening I decided to do the lot. It took me way too long but it’s done. It’s always best to get as many bits done as you can. Of course, using the old fashioned old blacking salts method in keeping with tradition. I...
I’ve been playing around with this idea for a while and over the weekend I completed the work on a cradle for sidelocks for case colour hardening. Much discussion has taken place over how to block actions to be colour hardened. For sure through my work to date the colours are enrichened and more...
I’m making a new top lever spring for someone over in the USA. I quite enjoy this process. It’s quite time consuming. I’m using the process as an excuse to write another chapter in my book…so it’s all good. Here are a few pictures of the steps so far…Added new pictures. Here are some...
It’s true that every barrel browns differently. Some deep brown, some with super contrast, some with twist you can hardly see once browned. These have come up really nicely. Only 5-6 passes needed. They were not going to get any darker and they look just perfect to my eyes. Finished off with caustic soda...
These barrels were originally blacked when I purchased the gub..to my surprise, underneath, beautiful twist. This just had to be rectified. Using my usual browning process it didn’t take long for these to come good. Finished and neutralised the barrels in a warm bath of water and caustic soda and just oil over the...
In this “How To” I’ll be explaining how I go about browning a set of damascus barrels. There are plenty of other ways of doing this I am sure but this way I know, and it works, so I thought I’d get it down in a step by step for people to use, read...
