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
