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@ARC so covid has me isolated and out of work. I've been tinkering in the wood shop, and wanted to build a small gun carriage for the mahogany cannon I turned on the lathe. So I wanted to find an image of a gun carriage to work from....apparently no 2 have ever been made the same !! Every image online is a different design !! I had to take features from several different designs and cobble something together. Lots to be considered when building one, and I think now that the furnace and wax molds have been put in working order ill have to make some real ones to support these guns were pouring. Just wondered which carriage designs you think are most authentic? Or if you have an opinion about this.....I want to get it right.
sorry man i have all over the place today.... um ... i accept the challenge... just gonna have to be tommorrow.
This is the first time i have check back in the thread today sorry.
 

sorry man i have all over the place today.... um ... i accept the challenge... just gonna have to be tommorrow.
This is the first time i have check back in the thread today sorry.
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Hey Bart... i just thought of something... why dont you just go look for yourself at pics of the real deals.
They do exist you know... they are MUCH rarer for sure... but never the less do exist.

Take The VASA for example. do searches on hers.... not sure if they survived or not... cant rmemebr off hand but the rest of the ships wood was intact,.. so ?
 

Era hardware/fasteners.
Don't know your chose era to match choice of cannon.
Bolt heads might not fly for older stuff.
Prior picture I was looking for alternatives to through bolts on wheels.
Which you had already found pegged examples of.

In this picture a closeup of the vertical post shows round headed fasteners. Spikes / nails perhaps?
Note, no washers between eyebolts and wood. And different style "hinged" trunnion straps.
Crest on cannon (rampant lion? Ships sails? Lizard? l.o.l..) should tell country of origin.

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