So to do so I have already made up a large number of tubes. In this bag there is a little less than 100 tubes.
These are the mortar tubes:
One of the shell types that have fascinated me from the day I discovered them, is the beraq, rondelle and shell of shells, um, shells. So to make one (or ten) of those I need to perfect my canister shell technique. Yes, tutorial is comming when I make one.
But to make a canister shell propperly I need a former. So I went out in the garage, found a round wooden fence post, drilled a hole, glued and nailed in a handle, and used some quick drying filler to remove the few cracks, sanded it down, and it is now drying out completely before Im going to sand it down once again and apply a few coats of clear varnish. This is my 3" former.
But, impatient as I am, I could not wait for it to completely dry before I tried to make a casing. The result was very nice, and I tried to fit in a few of the tubes I mentioned before. 16 fits in. So 16 shot rondelles, and probably 32 or 48 shot beraq and shell of shells, uhm, shells...
So that's what Im working on right now... Making paper products, and making my damn lift powder work propperly... The last few batches have been far from good ones, so Im milling all my black powder stock AGAIN for 24h. Amazingly it gets lighter in colour, more greyish, which I think is an indication to that the quality increases. At least the burn rate did . Yippi, better lift powder!
Cya!
