starting to think I "need" a cannon :D what is something like the above worth ?
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starting to think I "need" a cannon :D what is something like the above worth ?
Not too sure on what he sells them for, but every time I see them I also really really really want one, but I know that would tip my Mrs right over the edge if I rocked home with 1 of them. I told my mates who makes them that i put a pic up, I think he might join the forum and get amongst it, so hopefully he will pop up here very soon.
Have made a 30 cal bronze one(many years ago)...still has a ball bearing stuck in it from a fail to fire.
And a inch bore with a workmate. Made my own black powder and Fuses from scratch.
Chucks ball bearings straight threw car bodys.
https://youtu.be/ji-6H3sdKMQ
We kept upping the charge untill velocity didn't increase which was around 750 fps from memory and 3 scoops of a lyman powder scoop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJx...l=FarmCraft101
I really like this guys videos. This is a short 17minute video of the overall process of casting his own replica civil war cannon.
He has a whole series of videos where he goes through all the metallurgy and casting problems in detail.
He also cast an AR15 receiver from alloy cans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb2v...el=GunCraft101
and
AR10 from brass, yes brass from cartridges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qE...el=GunCraft101
But youtube was all butt hurt about videos showing people how to manufacture firearms.
Careful what you wish for, guys... a CANON (2 "n"s) is a law or body of laws of a church...a CANNON (3 "n"s) is a huge, single shot. kick-arse firearm, otherwise known in German as an
"Eargesplitten Loudenboomer." and formerly used for taking out the walls of a castle...
Go back and read the links in Mimms post - the Coehurn mortar story is one of the funniest things I've read.
Maybe send it to G Morgan.
I read it, really well done, piss funny but real interesting, well worth reading. He’d be a good fella to have a yak to and look round his shed I reckon
My mate tried to join forum but bungled it up somehow, so said if anybodies interested in the canons or wants to have yak about them they can email him, his addy is
Goodguns101@gmail.com.
I can assure you he’s a better gunsmith and canon maker than a frustrated computer based forum joiner!
thanks Jamie,chur
Yea boy,there's a gun room!!!
Proper barn find that @Kero
I'm on my way with 5 lbs of FFG and my lead pot
So that was a visit to a local private museum. I know the owner well and have just scored the wooden mold that made those. Currently waiting on a quote to get cast and gun metal barrels made in Chch with seamless steel liners. Won't be cheap, but I'm not really sure of any other options.
Attachment 161962
Sweet! Bring plenty of lead.... here's mine.
20 years in the AHAA. Good bunch. Very rarely get their cannons out in the top of the south....
Attachment 161964 Another local one. He's just finished making that one.
Now that's what I call cannons, not those mini pea shooting firecracker jobs.
Yeah on the video i linked where farmcraft on youtube makes one and goes through the process, he does a horizontal pour first but as he feared the metal strinkage was so great around the chamber area he had to do a vertical pour so the shrinkage just gets machined out for the bore.
Then he had the problem of the pressure head being so great at the bottom it forced his mold apart and spilt it all over his floor.
For a subject i know nothing about, him explaining why hes doing things a particular way. The pros and cons etc is really helpful and interesting.
It is actually a 1/2 size Whitworth, as used by the south in the civil war, I did the engineering & machining and my mate did all the woodwork including the wheels, it took just over a year to build in our spare time
I have half a dozen of the smaller cannons. I'm unsure if you need to be a LFO to owner them in NZ as it is in Australia.