Subject: re Gun Barrel Drilling

From: [email-masked] (walter)
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 00:44:12

Gun Barrels are bored with a D bit, unlike twist drills they dont wander off 
center. Damascus Steel Barrels are made from thin strips of alternating 
wrought Iron and Mild Steel forge welded together hammered out and folded 
several times, then hammered into a 1/4 inch strip, then twisted and hammered 
square again, then forge welded around a mandrel undersize, then bored out 
with a D bit, rifled if needed. The outside is then turned to sixe and the 
etched with acid to highlight the Damascene, and then browned NOT BLUED.

Walter

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Conner)
Date: 10 Jun 1996 00:06:31 GMT

> etched with acid to highlight the Damascene, and then browned NOT BLUED.

Good stuff on the Damascus process. :')  Do you happen to know if there is
a book or other source that describes the various ways to fold the
laminate to get the various types of patterns?  I have seen some amazing
looking patterns which were obviously not there by accident, the nicest
one being something that looked like square spirals with an occasional
band of something else going around the barrel.  Beautiful stuff, it would
be a pity if the secrets to this were lost.

Bruce Conner
[email-masked]

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From: PPIERCE <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 19:24:43 -0700

Bruce Conner wrote:
> 
> In article <[email-masked]>,  Beautiful stuff, it would

Bruce try Lindsay Publications

[email-masked]

I don't think that Lindsay fields questions by E-mail, but you might 
give him you snailmail and request a catalog.

Paul

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From: PPIERCE <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:34:44 -0700

darylb wrote:
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> In article <bconner-0906962014490001@dial4-1
> If anybody doesn't know what pattern welding looks like check out;
> 
> http://www.cris.com/~mettlewk/guild/
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> Then scroll down the page. Well, it blew me away
> 
> Cheers
> Daryl

WOW-did it ever...  What a knife..

Paul in AJ AZ

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From: [email-masked] (darylb)
Date: 10 Jun 1996 20:37:21 GMT

Cheers
Daryl