What do you guys think about this?

[Guest chipslinger]

http://m.flickr.com/photos/94360530@N05/8591012954/lightbox/

Sorry if this doesn't show I'm still trying to figure out how to post these photos.

[Raoul]

Not there yet.

[Randall53]

Took me a while Chipslinger. It's really easy using Photobucket, after you do it a time or two.

[Guest chipslinger]

Maybe this will work

[Raoul]

Indeed it did.
What exactly is that hog-leg?

[Guest chipslinger]

It is a 1856 Volcanic reproduced directly modeled from an original.

[Guest chipslinger]

And before anyone says anything this was already in the machining phase well before sons of guns or pawn stars ever had these guns show up on there programs.

[Raoul]

I bet that's a handful of fun.

[Poor_Dog]

Looks really great, have you shot it?

[Guest chipslinger]

It is made to fire the rocket ball just like the original one did. We have not made any of those so we really don't know. I spent about 3-4 months reverse engineering the original to make all the prints that I have.

[Guest chipslinger]

This is the other side.

[RED333]

So you "made" this, WOW!

[Guest chipslinger]

Yes I reverse engineered, made prints, wrote the program and ran the machine with a few other guys to produce what you see here.

That one is number one of twenty five.

Unlike others on the net this is exactly like the original and the original parts could be interchanged into this hand gun.

[Guest chipslinger]

The grips are made of rose wood.

[Oh Shoot]

So about what caliber does the Rocket Ball load correspond to?

 

Can you use a regular modern primer of some kind? I guess I could read up, but didn't look farther than this:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Ball

 

Really a nifty endeavor, I must say.

 

- OS

Edited March 26, 2013 by Oh Shoot

[Guest chipslinger]

It would be around a .40 caliber. We are looking into making a conversion kit and reload dies to make a baby .40 cal. That would load and shoot in the same gun.

The guy behind all of this has thought about making a version of a rocket ball using a primer or percussion cap with a gas check.

[hipower]

It's a georgeous firearm, of that there is no doubt.

[RichardR]

Very cool, the only "volcanic pistols" I have ever seen have either been in museums or video games (Red Dead Redemption, Call of Juarez) never seen a reproduction of one!

Can I has it? Purty preeze?

[Guest chipslinger]

The price of these will probably run up there with a very top end 1911.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I have been threatening to use one of the mare leg "pistols" to make a modern volcanic. If you could make them in a "standard" caliber I bet they would take off.

 

Dolomite

[peejman]

Very cool.  Both the design work and the execution.  I've never heard of a volcanic before. 

[Guest chipslinger]

The Volcanic was the predecessor of the Henry and Winchester lever action rifles.

[leroy]

I like it!!!  Great work!!

 

leroy

[Guest chipslinger]

Thanks for the comments.

[gregintenn]

The Volcanic was the predecessor of the Henry and Winchester lever action rifles.

I believe Smith and Wesson had a hand in them as well.

 

Looks very nice. What a neat project. Thanks for sharing. Do you have access to shop drawings of the original rocket ball rounds?