Author Topic: new bronze (Read 64993 times)

GGaskill · « **Reply #180 on:** May 13, 2010, 03:32:04 PM »

I think the latest spear point has the potential to get stuck in the target and be very difficult to impossible to pull out. You might have to push it all the way through to recover it.

gulfcoastblackpowder · « **Reply #181 on:** May 13, 2010, 04:03:36 PM »

I had a request for some more detailed pictures, so here they are. If you want to see them larger, go to the image source. If anyone needs them any larger than that, or anything I haven't captured, please let me know.

Double D · « **Reply #182 on:** May 13, 2010, 04:07:28 PM »

Quote from: RocklockI on May 13, 2010, 02:20:06 PM

Andy there is a groove inthe upswept blade thingamorroo .

how about this one ?

Note to Kbar , tomorrow is payday and I will fix the unsightly table cloth , what color do you like ? hummm?

the UGLY truth is since dan has been teaching me to make a 50 dollar cannon , my kitchen , my dinning room table and its undernieth where a bunch O boxes for casting live that have amassed by themselfs and now I am helpless B4 them .

This bronze has smitten me and my dinning room table and new stove had had to pay .

Thanks Dan

Gary

eta Andy on the first one ,the groove for slo match isnt really shown too good ,but it is on the upswept S blade

I don't see a place for slowmatch or ball. Is this a linstock or gonne, or just some sort of conceptual chopping, hacking, stabbing device.

RocklockI · « **Reply #183 on:** May 13, 2010, 04:12:53 PM »

my mistake the slowmatch groove is in the first short stubby one , and is clearly shown several pics in this thread .

This one is just for mayhem and scaring the willies out of your enemy .

seacoastartillery · « **Reply #184 on:** May 13, 2010, 04:30:34 PM »

Whoa! Images 9 and 13 show this to be a recoiless hand cannon. I never knew that before, and you, bronze boy, never mentioned it.

Don't worry, I will be careful not to stand behind you when you fire this gonne!

Tracy and Mike

RocklockI · « **Reply #185 on:** May 13, 2010, 05:02:29 PM »

Hey Tom ,how would one say 'dont be ridiculous'

in Galic , Dan .... how about some olde tyiem aViking term for it ?

Get one of your grandsons crayons out and I'll splian it to you tomorrw .

ETA Thank you for those pics Andy !

That #12 front quartering ,in portrat is pretty cool .

Double D · « **Reply #186 on:** May 13, 2010, 06:52:04 PM »

You know, I admire your adventures into lost wax casting and the resulting Morko, but don't think I want one...but I think my mind is changing....so how much of the bright copper and tin do I need to round up?

RocklockI · « **Reply #187 on:** May 13, 2010, 06:57:29 PM »

about 8 pounds

dan610324 · « **Reply #188 on:** May 14, 2010, 12:31:10 AM »

WOW WOW

gary got a canon for his cannons
so now we expect at least 20 close ups of every barrel you cast so far
start taking photos gary

we want them
we need them
we must have them

at least I do

Victor3 · « **Reply #189 on:** May 14, 2010, 12:39:52 AM »

What's next, Gary?

Anyone got a pic of that ancient (Chinese?) stone-throwing mortar made to look like a seated lion for Gary to work from? I'll take one of those in coffee table scale, please.

seacoastartillery · « **Reply #190 on:** May 14, 2010, 07:38:59 AM »

Victor3, Ever since Max suggested this bad boy as a model for a possible water-jug thrower, we have have been favorably disposed to seeing one delivered to Seacoast Artillery. Gary has resisted the temptation to make one thus far. The poundage of bronze scares him, no doubt. All depends on the size, I guess. Even a GB shooter of this style would turn heads at the range!

Coffee table scale?? As in sitting on, OR the size of?

Tracy and Mike

Asian LionMortar

dan610324 · « **Reply #191 on:** May 14, 2010, 08:47:37 AM »

size of of course

Double D · « **Reply #192 on:** May 14, 2010, 09:28:21 AM »

So if everyone here sent him 10 lbs of bright copper and a pound of tin, Gary could build a really big one these....The GBO Group build Lion Mortar by Rocklock...wonder how much copper I can get in one of those flat rat boxes from the post office!!!

gulfcoastblackpowder · « **Reply #193 on:** May 14, 2010, 11:17:58 AM »

Quote from: Double D on May 14, 2010, 09:28:21 AM

So if everyone here sent him 10 lbs of bright copper and a pound of tin, Gary could build a really big one these....The GBO Group build Lion Mortar by Rocklock...wonder how much copper I can get in one of those flat rat boxes from the post office!!!

Large flat rate box is 12"x12"x5¹/₂" = 792in³ x .324lb/in³ = 256lb

You'd be constrained by their limit, so you may as well use the medium size box.

RocklockI · « **Reply #194 on:** May 14, 2010, 12:49:50 PM »

Gary

gulfcoastblackpowder · « **Reply #195 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:04:34 PM »

Did you dock his tail? Is that in bronze, or the positive master? If it's the positive, I think it begs for more detail before casting, but it's really neat!

Double D · « **Reply #196 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:09:44 PM »

Quote from: RocklockI on May 14, 2010, 12:49:50 PM

Gary

It's a start, but should be at least popcan size but for individual mortars. The GBO Group buy Lion mortar should at least as big as the Monstre!!!

RocklockI · « **Reply #197 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:46:11 PM »

just playing around .

plus mine has a grin rather that the frown .

KABAR2 · « **Reply #198 on:** May 14, 2010, 05:32:17 PM »

Gary you really need to learn to engrave no metal stamps

it should be your name followed by "Fecit" & then the year

RocklockI · « **Reply #199 on:** May 14, 2010, 06:10:27 PM »

Now that I looked it up , I am taking you off the "Fecit list" .

I may do that .............. "made by" ....thats what I thought it meant .

I worked on the howie today . no pictures though thats because I havnt got a new tablecloth for my dining room workbench .. maybe tommorrow . It looks pretty cool with the bore in it .

Tracy took some nice photos in the seacoast machine shop today , they were really very nice too . he stopped bronze chips in mid air

.

But since I dont have a new table cloth yet I forbade them to publishing . I'll try to get one in the next few days or so .

Gary

GGaskill · « **Reply #200 on:** May 14, 2010, 06:19:40 PM »

Plus mine has a grin rather than the frown.

But no teeth.

RocklockI · « **Reply #201 on:** May 14, 2010, 06:41:29 PM »

George , He's a lover ,not a fighter

, BUT dont get the wrong idea because he's a fighter too .

This would really be a challenge ........as this must be "the most interesting cannon in the world ." IMHO .

Gary

btw the tail is welded on after casting .

Victor3 · « **Reply #202 on:** May 14, 2010, 09:43:51 PM »

Wait a minute, Gary.... You took the idea right out of my head before I even thought of it?

So you're not only a great artist, you're an accomplished "psychic vampire."

You could put a stubby tail on it and call it a pit bull mortar.

KABAR2 · « **Reply #203 on:** May 15, 2010, 03:11:03 AM »

Quote from: seacoastartillery on May 14, 2010, 07:38:59 AM

Victor3, Ever since Max suggested this bad boy as a model for a possible water-jug thrower, we have have been favorably disposed to seeing one delivered to Seacoast Artillery. Gary has resisted the temptation to make one thus far. The poundage of bronze scares him, no doubt. All depends on the size, I guess. Even a GB shooter of this style would turn heads at the range!

Coffee table scale?? As in sitting on, OR the size of?

Tracy and Mike

Asian LionMortar

Actually the clue to how big he will make it lies within his posting...Table cloth....
a water jug tosser would not fit on the table.....

Quote from: RocklockI on May 14, 2010, 06:10:27 PM

Now that I looked it up , I am taking you off the "Fecit list" .

I may do that .............. "made by" ....thats what I thought it meant .

I worked on the howie today . no pictures though thats because I havnt got a new tablecloth for my dining room workbench .. maybe tommorrow . It looks pretty cool with the bore in it .

Tracy took some nice photos in the seacoast machine shop today , they were really very nice too . he stopped bronze chips in mid air .

But since I dont have a new table cloth yet I forbade them to publishing . I'll try to get one in the next few days or so .

Gary

Gary I am glad to see I have been taken off the "list" thought it would not be the first time
I was on at least one list somewhere I am probably still on one list from my college days there were these
fellows in suites wearing sun glasses taking our pictures and I don't think they worked for LIFE magazine......

I apologize for the crack about the table cloth....... I broke a cardinal rule never discuss or poke fun
at another man's table cloth.....

So please more photo's!

Allen <><

little seacoast · « **Reply #204 on:** May 15, 2010, 06:06:57 AM »

When you replace that table cloth, send it to me- looks lots better than mine!

RocklockI · « **Reply #205 on:** May 15, 2010, 06:31:47 AM »

I was thinking about sending it to Kabar

eta yea you kinda "got the whole platoon killed" , but now I will ask Tracy to post them .

Gary

eta 2 Tracy is not up yet !

dan610324 · « **Reply #206 on:** May 15, 2010, 07:34:21 AM »

table cloth ?? whats that ??

my walked away a long time ago

just take a bite out of the kitchen table and walked away

the best damn cloth I ever had

carronader · « **Reply #207 on:** May 15, 2010, 11:18:17 AM »

what do you think Dan ? Muskie ready for this yet?

gulfcoastblackpowder · « **Reply #208 on:** May 15, 2010, 11:30:17 AM »

I don't know that he is, but I'll take one of the one on the right...with or without the missing piece of the left dolphin.

dan610324 · « **Reply #209 on:** May 15, 2010, 11:58:43 AM »

or this ??