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Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
KevinEvans:
Sigh,
I have been stalling, The six part braided short story collection for the GG is calling. 95% finished)
How ever I have been making this,
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss146/Thorgierr/70fd512a-88bd-4efb-85ee-0e2e6fc504fc.jpg
It is all handmade except the barrel, .50 cal, cut rifling, sixty two inches over all, and can be reloaded in the prone position.
In my defense, it is from one of my co author's NYT best selling novel.
Back to making literary sparks,
Kevin
Paynesgrey:
Oh, that's a lovely piece of hardware you're working on there. Never big on blackpowder myself, but I respect and appreciate the craftsmanship there. Gorgeous work.
KevinEvans:
Thanks,
As I said the rifle is new technology introduced in to the 1632 story cycle. It has the advantage of being reloadable in the prone position, this changes 17th century warfare dramatically.
One of our rules is that tech for the "New time line" has to work, there were question raised, so we made one. Grin.
This was not the first thing made, in the past we have hand made an aviation propeller, a two pound to the HP wooden block steam engine (bolt on iron cylinders), and a lead screw for a lathe starting with a drawn rod and wire.
Back to our writing (my wife and I), we just received the contract for "Murder and Chocolate" that comes out in Grantville Gazette vol. 55 Sept 1.
The work was actually written three years ago, publishing lead times are fun!
Regards,
Kevin
--- Quote from: Paynesgrey on August 25, 2014, 09:59:47 PM ---Oh, that's a lovely piece of hardware you're working on there. Never big on blackpowder myself, but I respect and appreciate the craftsmanship there. Gorgeous work.
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