Lukens Air Gun Replica Gallery : orro.net

Hank Elwood and I collaborate on replicas of antique air guns. The following are photos from our 4 year complete build of a Lukens Air Rifle.

: Inletting barrel – muzzle

: Inletting barrel – breech end

: Vise and workbench for inletting

: Drilling ramrod hole in forestock

: Ramrod hole being drilled

: 3 stages of inletting bronze barrels

: A small assortment of Hank’s files

: Forestock bottom – finished

: Forging a trigger guard

: Coal forge

: Prototype with folded steel flask

: Hank’s 18th century rifling machine replica

: Prototype – lock side

: Rifling machine – pull end

: Hank Elwood – first shot from prototype

: Hank Elwood – exercising on rifling machine

: Bottom

: Left

: Top – gotta love that bronze!

: Hank proudly displaying first finished Lukens DNH

: Right

: Needed 15 grooves – ‘modern’ indexing head in foreground

: 3 barrels being inlet for forestocks – note plaster models of original

: Hank’s tooling – 18th century style

: striker lever made from flat stock

: Striker lever workup

: Receiver and lock – double neck hammer from French pistol

: Davis lock affixed to custom lockplate

: Sideplate removed to show stiker lever and linkage

: Full cock – striker behind lever

: Striker just about to pass over lever during cocking

: Half cock – striker abreast lever

: receivers with wax patterns, models of original gun and furniture

: Bottom view of receiver

: Top view of receiver – striker ahead of lever – uncocked

: Hickory rifing head with cutter, lube and shims

: 15 grooves as per original

: Hank’s 18th century rifling machine replica

: barrel clamped in 18th century rifling machine

: Bronze prototype casting with photo of original gun

: Sideplate view of pattern

: Pattern sans plates and barrel

: Pattern carved and shaped

: Pattern taking shape around lockplate

: lockplates and mock barrel inlet into wax

: Receiver rear – striker pin with linkage to striker lever visible

: Interior of receiver showing transfer port

4 Comments

Mykhaylo GERASYMOV says:

April 28, 2010 at 5:32 pm

It is absolut INCRIDIBLE!
You are real a master …
Jack Wasserstein says:

July 20, 2010 at 7:56 pm

This represents an incredible amount of passion and craftsmanship!
Markus Nurminen says:

October 23, 2010 at 7:03 pm

I want one of those
vic says:

March 3, 2011 at 3:40 pm

hi stunned by your craftsmanship and skills, looked at every thing and found it absorbing! i could not see any info on the butt flask making, perhaps this was earlier than the archives. Have you ever thought about publishing a book of drawings or sketches… i would like to make a scale model of one… unable to own full size due to draconian gun laws now in uk…
best regards
vic

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