Handmade Screw for a Flintlock Frizzen: Swallow Forge

A quick video to show you how I made Replacement Screws for Flintlock Muskets. In this I make a custom sized replacement for a worn Frizzen Screw.
I also show you How I make a really simple screw Header Jig.
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[@lucasfalenski6540]

I would love to see more videos about how these parts were made, very interesting.

[@SwallowForge]

I have a video on making the main spring and a video on re facing the frizzen in the muskets and cannons playlist.

[@michaelscreen6921]

Amazing, thank you. I was always fixated on using old engine oil for blueing and hardening.

[@BrucesShop]

Wow that is old school Love it!!!!

[@shinoobsoman9269]

Wooow....🤩🤩 You are Great..🌹🌹👍👍

[@ballkeeper6662]

very kool, off to find more vids from ya

[@wallacejeffery5786]

Very nice indeed!!!!

[@nigelkavanagh2048]

Great job looks like it was always there.

[@PRNadh]

Very very nice 👌

[@-Gunnarsson-]

Really cool !

[@SwallowForge]

Thank you 😊

[@davidescudero8889]

You literally just blew my mind. Thank you so much. I needed new screws for my blunderbuss and was glad to find this

[@rebekah-chriss-k4872]

Awesome sauce what type of lock is that ?did you forge the lock

[@mesinovict6316]

That is a flintlock,he most probably didn't make it himself

[@localextremist2839]

How do you make the trigger? Like It's hard enough to flint and Set alight the gunpowder and boom

[@SwallowForge]

I show the making of a trigger in my 2” bore musket video.

[@kathireshgun9087]

Nice

[@joakimresve6919]

Can u show how to make the Hamer of the flintlock

[@SwallowForge]

Forged or cast?

[@duncangallagher8702]

could you make me a new main spring if i sent the old one

[@20mcarroll02]

Nice.

[@РомаШамиль-ж7в]

Очень хорошо 💃🔥💣

[@calvin5358]

I have used steel nails

[@hog-boy-8843]

Hand made with 'Modern' hand tools.

[@jonpaul3868]

And that is a bolt. Not a screw. Lmao.

[@SwallowForge]

Sorry Jon but you are wrong. It is a screw, often referred to as a machine screw. Here is the easy way to define between the two. Bolt: A bolt is an externally threaded fastener designed for insertion through the holes in assembled parts, and is normally intended to be tightened or released by torquing a nut. Screw: A screw is an externally threaded fastener capable of being inserted into holes in assembled parts, of mating with a preformed internal thread or forming its own thread, and of being tightened or released by torquing the head. Most machine screws are slot or ph headed. Hope that helps.

[@eugeniuspirantel1086]

Hey! Using a die is a cheat! What about cutting a thread with a file? 😆

[@SwallowForge]

I have done that. I have also made hand made taps and dies. Other than being able to be smug and say you did it, its a pretty pointless exercise 🤣

[@eugeniuspirantel1086]

@@SwallowForge , it's an exersise for your spirit! 🤣

[@SwallowForge]

My spirit exercise usually involves Rum 😊

[@Bnscholet911]

What type of steel did you use?

[@sudiartasudiarta8472]

very good.

[@glennworton2494]

Standard threads for which a die exists - not an antique then

[@SwallowForge]

Hand cut threads will be on another video. This was for a modern daily shooter. Antique gun restoration is a whole different kettle of fish. :)