Does anyone have videos or resources of how blacksmiths/gunsmiths made firearms by hand? Specifically, damascus shotgun barrels would be cool.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9dlvRDuQU
>>62092811>Gunsmith of Williamsburg (1969)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_O1-chxAdk
https://youtu.be/Kh6e450NKuoCool series relevant to your interests
>>62092811You wouldn't use Damascus steel for a gun barrel, its too soft
>>62093256twist-forged steel was used to built gun barrels for hundreds of years...
>>62093256Black powder produces relatively low pressures and pattern welded steel can tank those pretty easily. Those barrels can also be pretty thin by modern standards and they still worked without issue. Would still be susceptible to tons of corrosion from black powder residue, but that would apply to any carbon steel.
>>62093256Several hundred years of arquebuses with banded forged damascus barrels disagree with you.
>>62093384No, they don'tIt's shit for barrelsYeah sure it can shoot one round every five minutes no problem, fuck youYou don't know anything if you think it can handle modern gun fire ratesThis is some Katana slicing a tank in half bullshit
>Ye olde gonnesmith is wearing programming socksDoth thine services includeth the infamous range trap and boiled crustaceans?
>>62092811YouTube is going to start deleting those videos soon, new rule changes, so download those you want to keep.
