Home made Matchlock Musket

July 4th, 2011 Veerle


This is a hand made .75 caliber smoothbore Matchlock Musket shown from start to the first firing, taking one month to make. The Barrel is a 1710 Dutch Flintlock barrel by Colerain and was purchased from Track of the Wolf.

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25 Responses to “Home made Matchlock Musket”

  1. HappySheepEating says:
    07/04/2011 at 04:26

    Where did you get all those material?

  2. OccasionallyEpic says:
    07/04/2011 at 05:16

    SO COOL

  3. zenixx117zed says:
    07/04/2011 at 06:07

    that is a thing of beauty

  4. rufus475 says:
    07/04/2011 at 07:04

    Well done! You made a work of art. Thanks for sharing.

  5. karkupau says:
    07/04/2011 at 07:31

    congratulatiuons from brazil
    amazing gun

  6. prominer83 says:
    07/04/2011 at 08:05

    this is by far the coolest gun from older times.

  7. DecimusMaximus says:
    07/04/2011 at 08:37

    @TechnicalJaguar Good on ya, that’s why I put these videos up. Enjoy your gun.

  8. TechnicalJaguar says:
    07/04/2011 at 09:26

    When watching this video for the first time about a week ago I decided to build my own musket. It turned out to be a matchlock musket pistol which works quite well.

  9. DecimusMaximus says:
    07/04/2011 at 09:27

    @keith97ful One month.

  10. keith97ful says:
    07/04/2011 at 09:39

    how long did it take u to make it

  11. olddudesrock says:
    07/04/2011 at 10:24

    This is awsome, I always wanted to build my own Musket.

  12. SuperSneakySteve says:
    07/04/2011 at 10:33

    Holy crap 167 likes and not one asshole gave it a thumbs down!

  13. surfer911dood says:
    07/04/2011 at 10:58

    @MiracleKD18 it’s Clockworks from the movie “City of Ember”

  14. hunterziegelmann says:
    07/04/2011 at 11:26

    Wow first vid i’ve ever seen that had zero dislikes. Now i know what complete idiots aren’t interested in… That means only smart people watched this! AND I’M ONE OF THEM!!! Oh well.

  15. OEFvet1986 says:
    07/04/2011 at 11:44

    Beautiful

  16. DecimusMaximus says:
    07/04/2011 at 11:54

    @ANZACS100 People also build cars, boats and airplanes. A car can have a control malfunction and crash, boats can be sunk and leave you to drown, airplanes can fail for any number of reasons and crash, none of this makes building them any less worthwhile to do.
    They’re all dangerous things to do but I believe in living life as dangerously as possible. That’s what they call living.

  17. DecimusMaximus says:
    07/04/2011 at 12:22

    @obeyance No it is not legal to build a fully automatic gun, you need a manufacturing license not a tax stamp. The tax stamps are for buying an already manufactured gun.

    Though if you know something I don’t in this regard, feel free to send me a message with legal evidence because I would be honestly interested in being shown otherwise.

  18. DecimusMaximus says:
    07/04/2011 at 13:02

    @surfer911dood I may build a Flintlock next instead, if only for the sake of having a self-igniting musket. In either case I still have a lot of saving up to do to afford the parts. If I could find a decent source of spring steel I could finish my Snaphaunce, but everyone is obsessed with mild steel which is useless for musket mainsprings.

    The music is ‘Clockworks’ from the movie ‘City of Ember’.

  19. surfer911dood says:
    07/04/2011 at 13:53

    @DecimusMaximus Sir, i shall patiently await the arrival of your Japanese rifle, even if it takes a million years!

    p.s WHAT IS THAT TOTALLY EPIC MUSIC MAN!!???

  20. urbantaker says:
    07/04/2011 at 14:47

    NICE WORK

  21. ZuluDawn88 says:
    07/04/2011 at 15:38

    How did you get the metal parts for this? Did you make them? Looks very nice!

  22. LutzDerLurch says:
    07/04/2011 at 16:15

    @DecimusMaximus of course you are correct. At ome forging is much easier to do than running a Foundry :)

  23. DecimusMaximus says:
    07/04/2011 at 16:45

    @LutzDerLurch Yes, they can be cast as well but making a furnace at the home for casting steel can be quite a feat. Forging is a much cheaper and easier option.

  24. LutzDerLurch says:
    07/04/2011 at 16:59

    @DecimusMaximus Not neccessarily forged.

  25. ANZACS100 says:
    07/04/2011 at 17:10

    @obeyance OH SORRY MISUNDERSTANING OK BUT still itss a little dangerous but still ok

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