Warden Callaway Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Sawmill Mary and I did the Museum of the Appalachian near Knoxville Tennessee on Friday. They have an impressive display of pioneering gunsmithing shop tools. Ț One of the many small items on display was a homemade wooden tool to decap and reprime a case. Just a block with two pegs. The peg on the right has a steel pin to push out the primer. A view from another angle showing the nail head or screw that when swing the lever over pushes the primer in. This tool won't put Dillon out of business but I can see one scaled up to deprime and reprime 12 gauge brass hulls. Could be made of metal if you were a better metal worker than wood worker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Interesting. might try reloading some BP shells with something like that. I have a cousin that lives across the road from MotA. Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 love these old tools , not sure what the heirs will do with them but i pick these up when i find them , thats one ive not yet seen available , probably on the "one of a kind" order , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 2 hours ago, watab kid said: love these old tools , not sure what the heirs will do with them but i pick these up when i find them , thats one ive not yet seen available , probably on the "one of a kind" order , I'm bad about "collecting" them too. Here is a 12 gauge loading block. Fill it up with primed hulls and stuff 50 at one setting. I've not tried it out yet. Been meaning to make a video. I'm sure the block was part of an assembly line process were powder, wads, shot were dropped in 50 at a time as it was passed down the line. While in Dixie Gun Works on Saturday morning, I looked at an interesting loading block. It was a board say 16" long by 5" wide by a full 1" thick with maybe 100 holes maybe 44 caliber. One edge was undercut like for shiplapped. The back side was stenciled in ink lots of suff - company name etc. It was also some part of an assembly line process. I should have bought it. Here is a reloading kit I picked up at one of our toy stores. It's missing the cleaning rod and capping tool. But has an old DuPont powder can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Coles SASS 1188 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 The Sheldon Jackson museum in Sitka, Alaska has a collection of reloading tools made by Inuit from walrus ivory. The bullet molds were made using slate inserts hand carved to cast the desired bullet shape. Very interesting and ingenious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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