Girardoni Rifle Progress

Posted on Mar 11, 2010 In Air Guns Personal

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Hank and I have been making 2 Girardoni rifle replicas. This gallery shows some progress to date.

: Bridles rough milled from mild steel

: More material removed

: slot for sear cut

: Slot refined

: Bridles fitted to lockplate stock

: Lockplate layout for bridle – lockplate drill jig lower

: Bridle fixed to drill jig

: Indexing receiver casting before adding fixturing metal

: Fixturing metal poured around casting

: Receiver centered in lathe

: Faced and centered

: Receiver end threaded and machined square

: Receiver end – note hole for valve striker rod and slot for trigger plate

: Trial fit of flask to verify fit of thread

: Fixture in boiling water – metal melts at 180 F

: Lift out receiver with pliers

: A little metal stays on receiver – cleans up easily later

: Square hole with taper

: Oblong hole milled into block

: Square M2 tool steel incremtally scraping walls

: Work all 4 sides – the bar is tilted for one wall to taper

: Keep cutting – ~.003″ at a time

: Keep cutting

: Top and bottom flush cut

: Started with 5 holes

: Mill out the bulk

: Line up the tool with an edge

: Cut, cut, cut

: Brass shim gives clearance to face of cutter

: Breech block mounted to receiver – 2nd block started below

: Breech block

: Breech block – sideview

: Breech block with loading bar

: Wax patterns for the bronze furniture

2 Comments

BGATT says:

March 6, 2011 at 1:03 am

LOOKS GREAT. HOW DO I GET MORE INFO ON THIS RIFLE?
trealtree says:

May 5, 2012 at 10:05 am

I would love to see a video of the operation and firing this gun. Very Neat!

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