Dave Hawksford
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I found this very educational.
http://www.davidpriceflintlocks.com/id37.html
http://www.davidpriceflintlocks.com/id37.html
Thanks Dave, marked for more thorough reading later.
I do need some silver as well for another project (not inlay more like thin plate or thick foil) so if you find a good place to get it I'd sure like know (I expect the same place would likely have both). I also need some cow horns; but I think I've found a place for those...
Its all above my skill set as well - but I've certainly never let that stop me before so onward into the breach (or onto the breach..)! From my way of thinking you don't usually know what you can't do until you've failed at it and then you've hopefully figured out at least some of what you did wrong the first time so you'll hopefully do something else wrong the next time and so on. The downside to this way of thinking is that you build up a powerful backlog of things you ought to try to do just to see if they can be done.
I did the try it way for years and still do but I do my reserch 1st.