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Bullet Casting Equipment
We had a nice Sunday up visiting with folks at the Renaissance Symposium, where we met up with our gunsmith and got our powder flasks. The pictures I took of the flasks were *horrible*, so I will need to post new images later, but we also got a chance to check out some of Dale's original bullet casting equipment.
Dale had two different molds, both a single and a double:
These are cast bronze, with forged handles:
The forged bits pass through a eyelet on the back of the bronze and wrap around the edge to secure them in place:
Who knows, we might try to talk someone we know who does some lost-wax casting into making us some 'chambers' that hubby can then forge handles for!
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Dale had two different molds, both a single and a double:
These are cast bronze, with forged handles:
The forged bits pass through a eyelet on the back of the bronze and wrap around the edge to secure them in place:
Who knows, we might try to talk someone we know who does some lost-wax casting into making us some 'chambers' that hubby can then forge handles for!
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*giggle*
Uh, yeah. He is making them for us! *grin*
I know, I know. I sound like a smug little so-and-so. But it isn't like Dale hasn't been around doing this for years. Why haven't any of his 16th C reenactment friends *asked* him to do early period stuff before?
Seems he has a whole list of order for these things now.
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