Dance Revolvers

[Fingers McGee]

I'd have the colors removed & blue the frame then have the whole revolver aged a bit to show a few years hard use.

[jaxenro]

sounds good to me

[Hewy]

SINCE MAY of 2014, this has laid dormant in the time chamber.
It is brought forward in order to allow me to partake of this piece of Confederate
history...........in todays light.
Please add at will.

[Fingers McGee]

Here are some pictures:

[Hewy]

Scooby, I have read some of your comments as well as others, that gave me
confidence to buy it. Of course Fingers has a pretty good reputation. so bought it from
him.

[Bishop Creek]

If anyone wants to spend $795, Lodgewood has a custom Dance replica in .36 cal:


http://www.lodgewood.com/Custom-First-Model-Dance-Bros-Navy-Revolver_p_2794.html

[Fingers McGee]

No thanks.  If I want one in .36, I'll modify a Leech and Rigdon

[Bishop Creek]

I hear you Fingers.

[Rcampb6131]

Picture of my Dance.

[Captainkirk]

Do the repro Dances actually have a larger Dragoon-sized frame, or is it built on a 1851 frame?

[Rcampb6131]

In comparing the Dance with one of my Pietta 1851's, the frames are the same with two exceptions.  First, of course, is the lack of a recoil shield, and second, the water table is milled slightly deeper to accommodate the larger Dance cylinder.  Otherwise they are the same.

The Pietta Dance is not historically correct, however, as the originals had a frame the size of the Colt Dragoon.  The cylinder was shorter than the Dragoon, being the same length as the Colt 1860 Army, which made the Dance slightly lighter than the Dragoon.

RC

[sourdough]

In comparing the Dance with one of my Pietta 1851's, the frames are the same with two exceptions.  First, of course, is the lack of a recoil shield, and second, the water table is milled slightly deeper to accommodate the larger Dance cylinder.  Otherwise they are the same.

The Pietta Dance is not historically correct, however, as the originals had a frame the size of the Colt Dragoon.  The cylinder was shorter than the Dragoon, being the same length as the Colt 1860 Army, which made the Dance slightly lighter than the Dragoon.

RC

RC,

You have been so much help to me in my quest for a Pietta Dance .36 on a Navy frame, and you have given much info as far as the differences between your Pietta Dance .44 and the Pietta 1851 Navy .36 that I have stopped in my journey to acquire a factory one that is mix-and-match with my other Pietta Navy type .36 pistols. My only choice, as I see it, is to buy a Pietta 1851 Navy .36 steel, mill off the recoil shields, color-case the new areas (or full frame), and install the G&G part round/part octagon .36 barrel.

Please, sir, you need to post the pictures here that you have of the Pietta Dance .44 cylinder vs. the Pietta .36 Navy cylinder. I looked for the link you posted earlier about this on other forums but cannot find it. The view of the front of the two cylinders says it all.

Thanks in advance!

Jim

[Hewy]

In Pietta parts bin,there only seems to be one grip frame,and most that I have seen I could
be wrong have the shoulder stock mounting notch at the bottom of grip frame at least on brass.
But thats Pietta

[sourdough]

No thanks.  If I want one in .36, I'll modify a Leech and Rigdon

Hawg, that's fine if you want an Uberti. Pietta does not market a L&R so I will have to go with my premise. I have a master machinist with a full 3-phase power shop next-door to me so it is just a 100 yard walk for the milling operation.

If anyone wants to spend $795, Lodgewood has a custom Dance replica in .36 cal:

http://www.lodgewood.com/Custom-First-Model-Dance-Bros-Navy-Revolver_p_2794.html

I looked at that link to that pistol and I must say that is a very nice repro, even though it was created from a Colt 1851 Navy .36 and seems to be from a Colt 1851 Navy Late Third Model with the small round TG and the long trigger.

And that is why I have a problem with defarbed pistols. In 20-30 years, many newcomers to this hobby will not have access to our current-era posts about this pistol (and other creations we have concocted). And others who, like me, mix and match replica parts for variations (but I do not defarb), it just might slide by as an actual J. H. Dance & Bros pistol, with serial numbers within historical realms and not the same as any Dance revolver so far extant.

IMO, that is wrong unless the creator of such a fine piece marks it in some way as to discern it from an original.

I am off of my soapbox here.

G'Day!

Jim

[Ringo]

(...) My only choice, as I see it, is to buy a Pietta 1851 Navy .36 steel, mill off the recoil shields, color-case the new areas (or full frame), and install the G&G part round/part octagon .36 barrel. (...)

If you go that way, Jim, do not bother to color case the frame. From all the pictures I have seen of original Dance revolvers, it seems quite obvious that the frames were blued, just like the other iron parts.