hsifeng: (Blackpowder Love)
hsifeng ([personal profile] hsifeng) wrote2009-02-09 10:42 am
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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:

Single Shot - open

Double Shot - Interior

These are cast bronze, with forged handles:

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Double Shot - Top

The forged bits pass through a eyelet on the back of the bronze and wrap around the edge to secure them in place:

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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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[identity profile] shadowd1.livejournal.com 2009-02-09 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
what kind of philistines don't want to see pictures of period bullet molds?!?