https://www.peterfiner.com/artworks/item/3920
Intellectually, I know damn well that flintlocks are literally just using flint, but every once in a while a close-up of the lock itself floors me that these pieces of advanced chemistry and metallurgy are using just literal fucking rocks.
Wow, thanks for pointing that out!
I looked at the photo for a few seconds, but it wasn’t til I read your comment that it registered the whole mechanism is a giant clamp holding that flint rock in place. Fascinating.
And here I am wondering how that clamp mechanism works.
Edit: zoomed in and saw the screw. Nice! Now imagine having to say your gun stopped working because the rock fell out.
It’s a nice gun, I’ll give you that. But the engraving gives you no tactical advantage whatsoever. Unless you were planning to auction it off as a collector’s item.
Hey… you’re pretty good…
