« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 12 13 14 15 16 [17] 18 19 20   Go Down

Author Topic: Backyard cannon fun  (Read 59899 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline BoomLover

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1152
  • Gender: Male
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #480 on: November 07, 2009, 07:48:05 PM »
Dan, the best way I can tell you to see some nice Myrtlewood is to do a search...I just got this computer hooked up today, and am not sure how to search and send pics yet. It is a hardwood with some nice patterns,swirls, colors in brown, vanilla, yellow, chocolate...really nice stuff! This is the only wood that Double D said he would let slide and not paint, due to the type of materials it is...just sand and clear-coat. BoomLover
Logged
"Beware the Enemy With-in, for these are perilous times! Those who promise to protect and defend our Constitution, but do neither, should be evicted from public office in disgrace!

Offline RocklockI

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2747
  • Gender: Male
  • Morko and Me
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #481 on: November 08, 2009, 02:21:49 AM »
I'm not sure what I used on smee , I think the carrige is mrytle ?

maybe a burl but is is light caramel colored .
Logged
"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

Offline BoomLover

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1152
  • Gender: Male
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #482 on: November 08, 2009, 07:05:17 AM »
RocklockI, post a picture of your carriage, maybe we can determine if it is Myrtlewood. When you order it, it is very specifically noted as Myrtlewood, about the only other wood that looks anything like it is Olive Burl. BoomLover
Logged
"Beware the Enemy With-in, for these are perilous times! Those who promise to protect and defend our Constitution, but do neither, should be evicted from public office in disgrace!

Offline RocklockI

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2747
  • Gender: Male
  • Morko and Me
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #483 on: November 08, 2009, 07:18:53 AM »
right and left views





It's pretty dirty right now as it's not done .

Gary
Logged
"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

Offline Double D

  • Trade Count: (3)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12621
  • SAMCC cannon by Brooks-USA
    • South African Miniature Cannon Club
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #484 on: November 08, 2009, 07:28:21 AM »
If that wood is raw you should be able to smell it, myrtlewood has a incense sweet like smell similar to bay leaves.
Logged

Offline irishman

  • Trade Count: (5)
  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 442
    • Brooks-USA
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #485 on: December 06, 2009, 10:25:15 AM »
Just because there are a few flurries of snow gathering in (some of) our backyards, does NOT mean we should stay quietly inside!  This forum has been a great place to SPEAK! and to introduce new folks to the world of BLACK POWDER CANNON.  CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS celebrations are a great time to do both! Remember this one?   One of our favorites: brass barrel, black powder cannon/firecracker launcher with a red carriage in celebration of the upcoming holidays  Tried and true salute, carriage is available in several finishes:


In keeping with tradition, we are offering several holiday specials for GBO Members.  Please check out the GBO classifieds...and for more offerings, go to www.brooks-USA.com -- Let us know your GBO identity, and we will extend free shipping to anything you purchase there during this special time. If you would like, we will provide a Red Felt Santa SAK (pictured below) to simplify the gift-giving!  We will even add a card and drop ship for you.  Here are a couple of new BROOKS-USA Parrotts you might like to ask santa to put in your own stocking (see specifics in the classifieds):
And, yes, we do have bigger barrels for those of you who have been VERY good!  Michael and jb
Logged

Offline Double D

  • Trade Count: (3)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12621
  • SAMCC cannon by Brooks-USA
    • South African Miniature Cannon Club
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #486 on: December 22, 2009, 01:44:17 PM »
Anyone needing carrriage templates for Brooks USA newest cannon, the South African Miniature Cannon Club Cannon "SAMCC" cannon drop me ad email.
Logged

Offline RocklockI

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2747
  • Gender: Male
  • Morko and Me
Keeping Busy
« Reply #487 on: January 05, 2010, 04:45:11 PM »
With the cold and snow casting is on hold .

To keep busy, So I made a carriage for the Irishmans brass parrott . ;D







Fun Fun Fun ...

It's not done yet ...I got some more brass dingle balls to put on .....
Tracy was kind enough to give me a bottle of French Lt Blue , Mike milled the little powder tray in fromt of the vent .
Logged
"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

Offline seacoastartillery

  • GBO Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2853
  • Gender: Male
    • seacoastartillery.com
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #488 on: January 05, 2010, 07:46:55 PM »
      Whoa Gary,  I didn't know you would get that far today.  She looks great!  I'm glad you mentioned that color.  There are a bunch at Valley Forge that are painted French Royal Artillery blue-gray.  I need you to give me a kick in the butt to get me going on that flank howitzer I talked about two weeks ago.

That's a well proven firecracker tube too!  Real nice combo.

Tracy and Mike
Logged
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

Offline gulfcoastblackpowder

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • *****
  • Posts: 808
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #489 on: January 05, 2010, 10:35:43 PM »
Good looking carriage!  Did you cast the hardware?
Logged

Offline Cannoneer

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3950
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #490 on: January 05, 2010, 10:58:42 PM »
You did a good job, Gary; I like the looks of it.
Logged
RIP John. While on vacation July 4th 2013 in northern Wisconsin, he was ATVing with family and pulled ahead of everyone and took off at break-neck speed without a helmet. He lost control.....hit a tree....and the tree won.  He died instantly.

The one thing that you can almost always rely on research leading to, is more research.

Offline dan610324

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2413
  • Gender: Male
  • bronze cannons and copper stills ;-))
    • dont have
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #491 on: January 05, 2010, 11:31:53 PM »
now I hope that we will see the smee and parrot side by side launching crackers
Logged
Dan Pettersson
a swedish cannon maniac
interested in early bronze guns

better safe than sorry

Offline Max Caliber

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • *****
  • Posts: 524
  • Gender: Male
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #492 on: January 06, 2010, 02:00:52 AM »
Gary, Very nice work. Love those field guns.
Logged
Max

Offline Spuddy

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 315
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #493 on: January 06, 2010, 03:03:52 AM »
Gary,
You are a man of many talents.  Nice looking carriage.  You are a good motivator for those of us who should attempt the same thing.
Spud
Logged

Offline Zulu

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2477
  • Honor is a gift a man gives himself.
    • Wood & Ironworks
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #494 on: January 06, 2010, 03:52:17 AM »
Gary,
Where did you get the hardware?  I don't think you cast it because you never talked about it.
Nice!
Zulu
Logged
Zulu's website
www.jmelledge.com

Offline KABAR2

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2830
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #495 on: January 06, 2010, 04:07:06 AM »
Gary has been too quiet about where he got the hardware..........


I think Gary stole the draw pulls and hardware off his wife's jewelrey box...........
Logged
Mr president I do not cling to either my gun or my Bible.... my gun is holstered on my side so I may carry my Bible and quote from it!

Sed tamen sal petrae LURO VOPO CAN UTRIET sulphuris; et sic facies tonituum et coruscationem si scias artficium

Offline RocklockI

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2747
  • Gender: Male
  • Morko and Me
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #496 on: January 06, 2010, 05:50:08 AM »
Thank you all for the kind words .

The hardware is from a Hobby Lobby , some doll house stuff some little craft do dads .

BTW also I cut the trunions down they were too long .

Gary
Logged
"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

Offline RocklockI

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2747
  • Gender: Male
  • Morko and Me
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #497 on: January 11, 2010, 12:48:08 PM »
Its finished ! Just today ! I like it alot .

This is the brand new Brookes .30 Parrott barrel from the Irishman ,she's a beauty .

The old CSA tube goes back on it's naval truck . gary







Mike says it alittle over the top . I like it anyhow .

Gary

eta I turned the elevator screw from a 1/4x20 brass bolt ,there is an threaded insert in the trail

2X ETA FOR CAUSE I GOT A KEWPIE !!!!!! ;D
Logged
"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

Offline seacoastartillery

  • GBO Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2853
  • Gender: Male
    • seacoastartillery.com
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #498 on: January 11, 2010, 01:43:59 PM »
     Congratulations, Gary.  She looks very nice indeed.  Now that you have some 1mm fuze, we want to see Fire and Smoke!

Mike and Tracy
Logged
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin'-cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets - 'Tss! 'Tss!

From the poem  Screw-Guns  by Rudyard Kipling

Offline EL Caz 66

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • A Real Regular
  • *****
  • Posts: 799
  • Gender: Male
  • Man the guns !!
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #499 on: January 11, 2010, 02:37:10 PM »
Gary, Cool little cannon... love all the Bells and whistles..  ;)
Logged

Offline RocklockI

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2747
  • Gender: Male
  • Morko and Me
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #500 on: January 11, 2010, 07:48:17 PM »
Here is some of what I used , .25 cents a tray ladies earrings from a down the street garage sale last summer.




This is the other earring from the one I used as the floral plate for the water bucket hook . :D

Gary

Yes my dogs sleep on them  :D all four at once .
Logged
"I've seen too much not to stay in touch , With a world full of love and luck, I got a big suspicion 'bout ammunition I never forget to duck" J.B.

Offline carronader

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • *****
  • Posts: 561
  • Gender: Male
  • What? me worry.
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #501 on: January 11, 2010, 10:31:10 PM »
I kinda liked the old CSA tube..............innovation and imagination..............getting better all the time Muskie. Just shows you don't need a fat wallet to produce the goods.
Logged
Scottish by birth and by heart.

Offline dan610324

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2413
  • Gender: Male
  • bronze cannons and copper stills ;-))
    • dont have
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #502 on: January 11, 2010, 10:33:34 PM »
now you got so many of the kewpie dolls that you need to build a dolls house soon   ;D
Logged
Dan Pettersson
a swedish cannon maniac
interested in early bronze guns

better safe than sorry

Offline Cat Whisperer

  • Trade Count: (2)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7493
  • Gender: Male
  • Pulaski Coehorn Works
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #503 on: January 11, 2010, 10:51:54 PM »
Quote from: dan610324 on January 11, 2010, 10:33:34 PM
now you got so many of the kewpie dolls that you need to build a dolls house soon   ;D


Hmmmmm.   Kewpie Doll Cannon Crew of the Kewpie Doll Battery of the Kewpie Doll FA Bn.

 ::)
Logged
Tim K                 www.GBOCANNONS.COM
Cat Whisperer
Chief of Smoke, Pulaski Coehorn Works & Winery
U.S.Army Retired
N 37.05224  W 80.78133 (front door +/- 15 feet)

Offline carronader

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • *****
  • Posts: 561
  • Gender: Male
  • What? me worry.
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #504 on: January 12, 2010, 12:30:38 AM »
Damn Swede............where you been hiding ?
Logged
Scottish by birth and by heart.

Offline dan610324

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2413
  • Gender: Male
  • bronze cannons and copper stills ;-))
    • dont have
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #505 on: January 12, 2010, 06:37:33 AM »
just got above the surface again of all ice and snow  ;D
Logged
Dan Pettersson
a swedish cannon maniac
interested in early bronze guns

better safe than sorry

Offline EL Caz 66

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • A Real Regular
  • *****
  • Posts: 799
  • Gender: Male
  • Man the guns !!
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #506 on: January 19, 2010, 12:16:12 PM »
My new addition of the triad of .50 cal backyard fun.. Not sure which will be used in our upcoming postal shoot..




.50 Napoleon cannon (BROOKS)  on field carriage (Dom Carpenter)

Logged

Offline Double D

  • Trade Count: (3)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12621
  • SAMCC cannon by Brooks-USA
    • South African Miniature Cannon Club
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #507 on: January 19, 2010, 06:17:59 PM »
Quote from: EL Cazador 66 on January 19, 2010, 12:16:12 PM
My new addition of the triad of .50 cal backyard fun.. Not sure which will be used in our upcoming postal shoot..


Simple, all three! Send nine bucks and I'll stuff all 6 targets in an envelope and sock a big wad in my 401K!  :)
Logged

Offline BoomLover

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1152
  • Gender: Male
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #508 on: January 21, 2010, 06:35:50 AM »
Got a short note from Rays89, says he misses the cannon forum, and the guys...is still working on recovery, but it will take a long time...broke every bone in his hand...so, his projects are obviously on hold...but he is working at it and seems optimistic...just an update.  BoomLover 
Logged
"Beware the Enemy With-in, for these are perilous times! Those who promise to protect and defend our Constitution, but do neither, should be evicted from public office in disgrace!

Offline Double D

  • Trade Count: (3)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12621
  • SAMCC cannon by Brooks-USA
    • South African Miniature Cannon Club
Re: Backyard cannon fun
« Reply #509 on: January 21, 2010, 07:18:51 AM »
Thanks, Jim, Rays enthusiasm is missed.  He only broke one hand and typing should be good therapy!  Ray, get well and get back here!!
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 12 13 14 15 16 [17] 18 19 20   Go Up
« previous next »