Thread: My oldest cartridge rifle 1859 ( picture heavy )

Congratulations on your commitment @akaroa. I seriously appreciate the skills shown here. Wished I’d taken a different skill set in life

Originally Posted by Ingrid 51

Congratulations on your commitment @akaroa. I seriously appreciate the skills shown here. Wished I’d taken a different skill set in life

These skills are not " God given"

It's just time spent making swarf
Time spent learning from many mistakes
A lot of sequence planning
And a discipline to not start every element at once
Methodically work through each part of the process

For example
I didn't strip down the donor barrel rifle until the Sharps stub was bored and tapped and suitable to take the donor barrel

If at this stage I got a major snag and I had parted out the rolling block rifle then I would have had two crippled projects