Aug. 27th, 2006

Bwee

Aug. 27th, 2006 01:27 am
kiffie: Star Trek's Enterprise-D. (Voodoo -- Porche)
Evedently my grandpa's old shotgun is worth about $2,000.

...yeah.

We're so selling it. XD


EDIT: Although if anyone on my F-list knows about this sort of stuff, do you know what this pattern on the barrel(s) is called? It'd be rather important in selling terms, I think. Most other examples I've seen on the internet are too old and pitted to see any sort of pattern. :(

Well, Now!

Aug. 27th, 2006 04:00 pm
kiffie: Star Trek's Enterprise-D. (Voodoo -- Porche)
According to the folks at antiqueguns.com:

It is just a normal good quality Damascus Twist barrel made by hammer welding coils of twisted iron and steel rods round a mandrel to make the tube which is then struck up and polished so that when it is stained by the browning process the pattern in the metal becomes visible. It was the normal way of making barrels until the end of the 19th century.

My inner machine geek just had a joygasm. Seriously.

So that pattern on the barrel is because it had an awesome method of maufacture. I am of the glee-kittens.
kiffie: Star Trek's Enterprise-D. (Bodily Fluids)
I think I may be the only one that liked the Nightman opening music.

Aw well. :3

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