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Workmanship at its finest 1/10 scale Howie Video
« on: August 31, 2010, 04:39:49 PM »
Video found on Youtube a must see.. Outstanding !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maREziB9Ox0&feature=related

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Re: Workmanship at its finest 1/10 scale Howie Video
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2010, 05:11:03 PM »
Wow!

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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2010, 09:30:57 PM »
Most impressive !!!
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Re: Workmanship at its finest 1/10 scale Howie Video
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2010, 01:25:50 AM »
museum quality is almost a bad word in this days as it is used about almost anything on ebay and other places .
but this is genuine museum quality
cant be much better than that

ok DD he forgot to paint it   ;D
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« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2010, 02:16:49 AM »
 Nice work!  Small cannons like this one are more difficult to build than the larger ones.

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Re: Workmanship at its finest 1/10 scale Howie Video
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2010, 04:49:12 AM »
What a great job on a little gun!  He certainly does very good work but I would'nt take everything he says at face value.
He says tar was used instead of grease on wheel axles.  I never thought this to be the case but I could be wrong.  The bucket that hangs under the limber is called a tar bucket.  Anyone have any thoughts on this?
He says square nuts only were used.  Mordicai"s drawings certainly show "hex" as well as "square" nuts.
He said the wheels were the hardest part of the project.  I'll take that for gospel. :P  Especially small ones like that.
I bet it took him a long time to make.
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« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2010, 04:54:09 AM »
He started on it in 1964. Good custom work takes time. I start a custom 98 Mauser for my son in 1984 when he went in the service and told him it would be ready when he got out.  I got the rifle to him a year after he retired.

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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2010, 10:59:43 AM »
Thanks El Caz, good post. I agree with Dom, as far back as I can remember I've been fascinated with the (usually one-offs) incredibly detailed miniature artillery models that craftsmen like this gentleman produce.


You're right Zulu, but this guy isn't putting on airs, he comes straight out and says that he doesn't really know much of the history involved with the cannon he made. I also think you're on target in thinking that he read "tar bucket" somewhere, then further conjecture led him to assume that the tar was actually intended to 'slow' the wheels down. It became known as the "tar bucket" because 'pine tar' actually was used in a mixture with 'tallow' to make the lubricant for carriage wheels before the later 19th century.

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Re: Workmanship at its finest 1/10 scale Howie Video
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2010, 12:26:13 PM »
Zulu,

The Union ordnance manual of 1862 calls for hog's lard for lubricating carriage wheels. I believe the Confederate manual of 1863 calls for hawg's lard. If not available, then tallow or other lards could be used.

There are five octagonal nuts on a light CW carriage. One on the rear stock/cheek bolt and four on the bolts of the two pointing rings. The modified number one carriage had two hex nuts on the implement hook bolts.  They were used when there would not be enough clearance for square nuts to turn and/or to be more snag free.
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Re: Workmanship at its finest 1/10 scale Howie Video
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2010, 02:08:42 PM »
BoomJ and Max,
Thanks for setting me straight.  I never could figure out what tar was needed for but I certainly would never put it on an axle.
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Re: Workmanship at its finest 1/10 scale Howie Video
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2010, 07:41:06 AM »
Zulu,

The pine tar was used as a thickening agent to make the rendered animal fat more viscous, especially in the hot summer months when the heat could turn the fat by itself into a more liquid state.
RIP John. While on vacation July 4th 2013 in northern Wisconsin, he was ATVing with family and pulled ahead of everyone and took off at break-neck speed without a helmet. He lost control.....hit a tree....and the tree won.  He died instantly.

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