local repairs made to shotguns

[fedhead]

Has anybody seen any original period, repairs carried out on shotguns. the type of thing of thing i am interested in in is locally made replacement parts IE screws, bolts, other gun furniture maybe made from different types of metal .

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Curt Schmidt]

Hallo!

Sorry to make a universal statement, but no, I have never seen any.

Curt
Who looked at many import and domestic S X S's, M1887/M1897 Winchesters, and M1898 Marlin's Mess

[fahtz]

Are you talking about replacement ramrods?
I have several in my collection that have some form of a shaped long straight stick.
Also are several with the original ramrods.

OR do you mean replacement pieces like wedge pins, pin plates, or hammers?

I have a couple that have one or two parts that just do not jive with the others... Nothing is wrong with the fit or functionality of the replacement parts, but they just do not look like the others on the guns. In all of these cases, the gun is 98% original, it is not a bastard chop shop throw together.

Hope that helps you in your quest.

[fedhead]

Are you talking about replacement ramrods?
I have several in my collection that have some form of a shaped long straight stick.
Also are several with the original ramrods.

OR do you mean replacement pieces like wedge pins, pin plates, or hammers?

I have a couple that have one or two parts that just do not jive with the others... Nothing is wrong with the fit or functionality of the replacement parts, but they just do not look like the others on the guns. In all of these cases, the gun is 98% original, it is not a bastard chop shop throw together.

That's exactly it, small parts that needed to be replaced to keep the gun serviceable and yes i am also interested in the ramrods . I would expect the parts to be well made but as you say slightly different IE no engraving for instance.

Do you have any pics?

[Johan Steele]

The average gunsmith of the day could manufacture anything needed. My father (a gunsmith of 20+ years) owns an original treadle lathe, dating back to the 1850's, that is capable of pretty much any operation to include smaller threads than what he can do on a more modern machine. Add an anvil, simple milling machine and a set of hand tools w/ a forge and pretty much any repair is possible.

Right now Lodgewood has an original M1855 w/ a very fine wrist repair of the kind I've seen before. If done by an armory or a postwar smith it doesn't matter as it illustrtaes the kind of stock repairs that can be done by a good Smith.

[English Doc]

In my collection I have 16 bore single barrel flintlock shotgun conversion, which has (obviously) had new parts added as part of the conversion process.

These (hammer, screws, nipple etc.) appear to be of a stronger, better quality metal (steel) than the rest of the weapon and retain about 70% of their blueing - there is no trace of any blueing/browning on the remaining, 'original' barrel or lock.

The ramrod also seems to be a later replacement, although I can't say why - it just does!

There are absolutely no traces of any numbers, names or other markings that I can find, although the 'ghost' of tooled decoration does.

Hope this is of some help!


Ken Pettengale
The Volunteer Company