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Traditional Firearms => Pre-Flintock Firearms => Topic started by: 10thumbs on April 26, 2010, 01:43:11 PM

Title: lock diagrams
Post by: 10thumbs on April 26, 2010, 01:43:11 PM

Where can a guy find a diagram of a lock for a matchlock? I've never seen the inside of one. Were there standard designs, or was each one more or less unique?
  I'd like to make one, but don't know where to start, so I'm thinking the lock might be a good place.  Barrels I've got, blanks I have and can make springs, but lock knowledge is an illusive quarry.

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Post by: Indiana on April 26, 2010, 03:49:59 PM

I think Pitchy has made a few matchlocks of his own, but I could be mistaken.  Hopefully he'll see this soon and chime in to help you.

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Post by: FG1 on April 26, 2010, 05:51:52 PM

Heres  a couple I took ideas from for my little .410 matchlock.
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/ModocWrangler/mymtchlkbrl003-1.jpg)
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/ModocWrangler/mymtchlkbrl001-1.jpg)
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/ModocWrangler/mtchlk.jpg)
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/ModocWrangler/lock3.jpg)
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/ModocWrangler/LMA.gif)

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Post by: butterchurn on April 26, 2010, 05:53:44 PM

Fab!  Thanks for sharing with us!

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Post by: bluelake on April 26, 2010, 05:59:04 PM

It will depend upon what type of lock you are interested in, as European serpentines mostly fall back toward the musketeer, while Japanese/Korean serpentines fall forward.

Here are examples of the type commonly used in Europe:

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/Tattershall-tb/ml.html

(http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/Tattershall-tb/DCP00465.JPG)

(http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/images/fire6_matchlkSchema.gif)

http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/primer_main.html

(http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/matchlock.jpg)

http://www.alderneywreck.com/?page_id=136

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/480500760_4c643c4402.jpg)

http://www.engerisser.de/Bewaffnung/weapons/Matchlockmusket.html

(http://www.engerisser.de/Bilder/Waffen/Luntenschlossschema.jpg)

A forward falling serpentine (not Japanese/Korean):

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/049QT0BI_TrWZWAatzP8FQ

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_RKjAE-vVCtE/Rzs-B9Cy9dI/AAAAAAAAA00/SfFSSv08ZPo/s1024/P9210354.JPG)

Here is a view of a Japanese matchlock:

(http://www.arco-iris.com/George/images/tanegashima.jpg)

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Post by: 10thumbs on April 26, 2010, 09:55:14 PM

Yessir! That answeres my questions. I just couldn't get a grab on the mechanism.
  I think maybe the Old Woman is gonna need one of these for her birthday.

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Post by: FG1 on April 26, 2010, 10:30:16 PM

I attatch the pan to lockplate instead of silver soldering to barrel . I didnt like thought of turning breech area red hot for silver solder. And it mounts up just like a flintlock that way .