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Re: Colt M1860 Army ' Avenging Angel' project
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2021, 08:39:41 AM »

Then, not a Colt at all but an 1858.
Snubs tho..are fun  &\?



This one i fabbed myself from an original, and before you throw a fit.. LOL, the gun was ruined by British law before i bought it. Brit law seems to have changed over the yrs, and this one i bought as "deactivated" with the sole intent of building myself a snub out of an original - as that´s the one permit exempt to us.
Len on here provided the stock material which is REALLY old black oak, i´ll let Len fill that part in if he reads this.

About the grips' material:
It's so called sea drenched oak, aka Black oak. Oak would perish in salt water due to a certain type of worm, but in bracken water it turns black over a period of 100 to 200 yrs and becomes rather sought after and expensive, used for artefacts and designed stuff. This specimen comes from a rib of the Swedish galley HMS Compass, sunk by the Russians in AD 1723 in shallow waters in the archipelago. I've got part of a rib with copper nails still in it, on my wall.

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Re: Colt M1860 Army ' Avenging Angel' project
« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2021, 08:42:12 AM »
Wow. Just...wow! :jawdrop1:
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Re: Colt M1860 Army ' Avenging Angel' project
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2021, 08:56:59 AM »
Amazing.
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Re: Colt M1860 Army ' Avenging Angel' project
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2021, 09:33:54 AM »
That was very nice of you to provide a piece of that wood to "Racing". I had never heard of it before.

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Re: Colt M1860 Army ' Avenging Angel' project
« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2021, 10:43:12 AM »
That was very nice of you to provide a piece of that wood to "Racing". I had never heard of it before.
And it was equally very nice of you to provide an original .36 Manhattan ball/bullet mold to me !!!

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Re: Colt M1860 Army ' Avenging Angel' project
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2021, 03:42:44 PM »


About the grips' material:
It's so called sea drenched oak, aka Black oak. Oak would perish in salt water due to a certain type of worm, but in bracken water it turns black over a period of 100 to 200 yrs and becomes rather sought after and expensive, used for artefacts and designed stuff. This specimen comes from a rib of the Swedish galley HMS Compass, sunk by the Russians in AD 1723 in shallow waters in the archipelago. I've got part of a rib with copper nails still in it, on my wall.

What makes me grin to this day is that the stocks on that thing are older than the gun, which was made back in 1864.
´N to this day the thing roars when called upon  (jh

So. On a gun from 1864 there´s black oak stocks from way BEFORE 1723.
Now..bring THAT to the bank!