I was only interested in the bods anyway but then I thought "would it be possible to make a working bombard?"
It was and here it is finished and in situ.
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From the bottom Picture it can be seen I´ve test fired it again to see if it held to the base(the touch hole Shows burn marks )
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| The bods have got more sense..they´ve all run off and hidden. |
The Barrel is made from a length of brass tubing, covered in paper and then card rings added to give the shape of a bombard. All glued on with PVA.
It´s been test fired already, I didn´t want to add it to the base and have the thing explode.
And here it is in action after being added to the base :-D Sometimes it takes a second or two for the vid to play and the microphone didn´t pick up the noise too well but it did make quite an impressive bang (evident by the "peep" of suprise my wife makes near the end, I didn´t tell her it was about to be fired) Great fun :-D
