Things you can do with a cannon ball

fernando · 13th January 2010, 02:47 PM

Thanks all guys for your input.
I can see the point of those getting mad at seing cannon balls being damaged for bizarre purposes, which i fully subscribe; but for what matters this very one was not afected ... just changed its certainly abandoned status to a usefull (and eventually peaceful) one. So in a way its life has not ceased and its presence, although inserted in a different context, can still be considered that of a cannon ball ... and so a (one more) collectors item.
Thank you A Snefelder, for your enthusiastic considerations on the degree of difficulty in the making of this device; it is always a pleasure to be enlightened on the technical view of things.
Fernando

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celtan · 13th January 2010, 03:51 PM

Sometimes they were also adapted as anchors.

BTW, Nando. Can you post some pics of the muskets adorning your den?

: )

fernando · 13th January 2010, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by celtan

Sometimes they were also adapted as anchors.

BTW, Nando. Can you post some pics of the muskets adorning your den?

: )

Those are not muskets but two pistols and a blunderbuss (bacamarte for me and trabuco for you).
... Nothing new, only the items i have already massacred the forum with.
Nando

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celtan · 13th January 2010, 09:08 PM

Nice seeing them again, nonetheless. Specially the small pistol.

How about the mosqueton/carabina on the tripod..?

Best

M

Quote:

Originally Posted by fernando

Those are not muskets but two pistols and a blunderbuss (bacamarte for me and trabuco for you).
... Nothing new, only the items i have already massacred the forum with.
Nando

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fernando · 13th January 2010, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by celtan

Nice seeing them again, nonetheless. Specially the small pistol.

How about the mosqueton/carabina on the tripod..?

Best

M

You already know that one:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=blunderbuss

BTW, the tripod is also an antique; American stuff, i believe, made in 1946.

Fernando

celtan · 14th January 2010, 02:22 AM

It reminds me again of my trabuco: Its brass barrel is a modern replacement and has a _screw_ instead of a breech plug. Everything else from the weapon feels and looks legit, the wood stock, the BB type action. It even has signs of having been fired.

I think it was modified for use in a (expletive) pirate movie of the 50s, darn follywood. Even the lock screws were replaced. Might be Indian-made, though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fernando

You already know that one:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=blunderbuss

BTW, the tripod is also an antique; American stuff, i believe, made in 1946.

Fernando

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13th January 2010, 03:51 PM	#2
celtan Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PR, USA Posts: 679	Sometimes they were also adapted as anchors. BTW, Nando. Can you post some pics of the muskets adorning your den? : )