It looks like the cigar Clint Eastwood used to light the cannon in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. I might have to get me a cheroot-lock firearm and take up cowboy action shooting.
Great to see such a high quality reproduction of the tinder lock. The tinder lock was quite popular here in Sweden and massively outnumbered the ordinary matchlocks until the last quarter of the 16th Century as tinder was plentiful but the domestic production of slow match was very limited. The inventories even go so far as to distinguish between the weapons that can use tinder or match and the weapons that are only able to use match. Slow match production would continue to be a problem until the reforms of Gustavus Adolphus when enough factories were set up to remove the need to mix the reliable and soldier proof matchlocks with more fragile weapons that did not consume slow match.
Odd that match production was such an issue. If you have the capacity to produce gunpowder, match is simple. All you need is natural cordage of some kind and potassium nitrate. You don't even have to have an industrial base capable of working metal to produce match.
Hello from the USA! I enjoy your videos, Capandball. Your background history, attention to detail, and overall effort that goes into your videos make them superb! Always a good learning experience. Thank you good sir!
One of these days, when the equipment is available to me, I hope to start making stuff like this. I just finished going to a trade school for gunsmithing, and early firearms was my focus. I even made a (Admittedly rough) handgonne for one of my final projects. Its such a shame you don't see stuff like this more often, its always a hugely fascinating experience and people are always intrigued when they see stuff like this at a range or demonstration.
Winchester made a thumb trigger rifle. I believe it was for youths as a first rifle. Can't remember why a thumb trigger was considered better for a beginner. Maybe it was just a cheaper mechanism suitable for a rifle that was less expensive to manufacture.
I just finished building a snaplock very similar to this one. Except mine is much longer. I love how fast the action is. I'm already planning a carbine like this one.
Well… this is absolutely going to be my winter project this year… building one of these muskets from scratch. I think I have pretty much everything I need but a large enough piece of walnut for the stock! The trigger and lock mechanism is very simple and should be easy to make. I should even be able to find the fungus in the woods where I live. Fantastic project idea. Thanks for the great video.
Awesome and informing video! I live around birch trees so I have been using tinder for my matchlock as well. Burns really hot, so I have never had a problem of not getting the powder to light. I carve the insides of the fungus and put the part I want in a traditional birch ash lye solution (1 part birch ash to 8 parts of hot water). I cut my pieces to the proper size and length. They can however sometimes be a bit brittle so I have wondered if they wrapped theirs. Thanks for the proof! I will have to trie this method also!
The mushroom that I use, Fomes fomentarius or "tinder fungus", has a really thick outer layer of "tinder" so I have tried not beating it thin and cutting it straight to the desired shape. They are more stiff and less like leather that properly beaten and streched tinder. I store them in a little woven birch bark container🙂 I will trie these "rolled" ones also!
@@capandballYour rolled versions seemed more consistant (thickness for example) and less brittle. But try some without flatnening or rolling and see what you think😁. I didn't have any good evidence on how the tinder was made for the tinderlocks so I did the first thing that came to my mind!😂 I'm really glad that you can be a history teacher for us all and show and teach these things to us!
Another excellent and really interesting video! Who made the tinder lock arquebus? Google must have overseen you making some sort of ammunition. I'm shivering when I think of all the ghetto kids making trips into the woods far far away... collecting mushrooms, consuming some right away... and turning the rest into primers for their matchlocks! ;-)
Az asszonyod gondolom respektálta a hamulevest, betétként taplógombával, és a receptet is azonnal elkérte! 😄 Nagyon szemléletes lett a bemutatód, mint mindig! Vannak a papírról és fejből értekező hadtörténészek... projektorral és lézerpálcával..., és szerencsére vannak a "kísérletező" társaik, akik újra alkotnak és szemléltetve élesben bemutatnak egy antik fegyvert! 😊👍👌
Asszony már megszokta az ilyen hülyeségeket az elmúlt 20 évben. Szegénykém kapott ilyesmiből rendesen. :D Tartok tőle anno nem tudta mire vállalkozik. Dehát benne volt ez is apróbetűsben. :D
@@capandball Az a lényeg, hogy "felnőtt" a bogaraidhoz! 😄 Az enyém asszony még 20 évvel ezelőtt megkérdezte volt: "Mikor vetted ezt a puskát... távcsövet?" De mostanában már nem fecsérli szóra sem, és csak legyint egyet, vagy észre sem veszi! 🤣 (Igaz én csak a szabadon tartható légfegyvereket "táraztam be" a szekrényembe, abból is csak rugósakat és csakis eredeti németeket. Egy .22 LR hüvely nagyon szépen tud fütyülni 25 méteren...! 😊)
Tissue paper is a really good option if you want to make a slow match using modern materials. You roll it and twist it in the opposite directions. You can use some water, but then don't twist it too much. Too tight roll will extinguish itself. Without water you can twist as much as you can and it won't become too tight. 30cm slow match will burn one and a half hours. Gun powder dust inside of it makes the burning time faster. Because of that, the end part will be hotter.
@capandball I have used paper tissue as a slow match long before I even knew there were guns using that as an ignition mechanism. I was twelve years old when I invented it. I needed a reliable and cheap way to ignite fireworks at New Year's Eve . When temperature is -30 °C the slow match is the best ignition method for fireworks. You can keep your gloves on. Depending on the quality of the paper you're using, you may have to use some wooden pegs. The wooden pegs will keep the roll tight and prevents it from opening immediately. After a day, take the pegs off, and the roll should stay tight. With the water method, don't use pegs. The pegs will usually squeeze the paper too tightly, and that's the part where slow match will extinguish itself. If I make long match sticks, I tie some support knots using thin jute wine rope. Knots will slow down the burning rate and prevent the roll from opening.
@@PrebleStreetRecordsThat's right, and the serpentine lever on the gun shown in the video looks very similar to the ones that were in the movie, tinder sticks included.
Interesting that cigarillo-like sticks came before widespread use of match, just like lighter arquebuses before heavier ones, or wheellock before the generalization of flintlock. Also, this beautiful weapon reminds me of Lady Eboshi from Princess Mononoke.
I had heard of Nordic "Mushroom guns", and I have a matchlock I made (a Tanegashima teppo), so it is neat to see how to make the tinder to try that out!
This was amazing and informative, I had heard of tinder sticks before but never gave them a second thought. Additionally many reproductions matchlocks I have seen only have a fixed front sight at best so that was interesting to see as well. Well researched and informative. I am curious about what situations would lead a tinder stick to be used over slow match in a operational sense. Great video!
With all that work making the tinder, it surely could not have been a single shot per tinder. If so, people would have found a more efficient way of firing the gun. I totally agree with your conclusion.
Other sessile polypores may be as suitable. I'd try whatever ganoderma grows local. Many trametes are that cotton leather. Pounding pieces together to get larger sheets is done. The horse hoof is made into hats that are similar to felt.
The labyrinth conks, locust cork tops, giant puffballs, all kinds might work. The horse hoof has limited more northern range than most of the world's population.
I find matchlocks fascinating, more interesting than the later ignition systems. That style of matchlock was the first to be used in the assassination of a Scottish nobleman.
Maybe simple hide glue from game skin/hide is able to be spread on the flattened tinder, then roll them up, keep them stacked close to each other. The hide glue may clot quicker than the wired drying method. Also, it wont affect burning characteristics, what's more, maybe slows the burning down a bit of tinder roll, lengthening it's lifetime. Just an idea, also fits to that era's contemporary assets.
@@capandball anyway, hats down to your dedication to redoing and especially reliving the 'real deals' of man's history! In many ways, I do envy your hobby, your work and all the things you experience.
Did food dehydration machine exist in 1546 ? Really like your knife. A knife maker is taking those knives and putting upgrades for handle, and fine leather sheaths, giving those knives a really fine look and feel. I’ve owned one for decades, and probably the best knives available for a production blade.
There were actually food dehydrators around then. They were powered by embers rather than heating coils and such, but the principle of circulating hot air to speed drying was very much known then.
We have chaga mushrooms here in the northeast that grow on the side of the white birch trees, and they're used to boil down and make into tea, who would have guessed that they can be made into tinder sticks? It makes you wonder who the first person was to discover that all those centuries ago.
my mind wounders? what if? you worked the shapes wet, then dried them to shape? like stiff leather armor and such of these days. God Bless! Thanks for keeping history working and alive.
This is great work Cap, thank you for sharing. I do have a question it's not period correct, but do you think a Minié ball would work in the match lock? And possibly improve accuracy?
Love your videoes! I have always been wondering what happened in the days of matchlock and flintlock when a battle had started and it suddenly started to rain and it was impossible to keep a match or gunpowder dry? Did they carry on and just ditched all firearms and used sword, spears and other edged weapons? In the early days of gunpowder I guess it was more adaptable as they also had crossbows and bows I live in the south west Norway and it rains a lot so I’m guessing it was truly a revolution when the percussion cap was invented in a country with a very similar climate namely Scotland, they say necsseity is the mother of all inventions
One question one proposal. 1. Where is the trigger on that gun? 2.To get universal size maybe roll a mushroom over the small mandrel and then wrap it with wire and dry? Or cut it in thin strips and roll it sideways on mandrel so they overlaps-that way you could make long rolls. I wonder if you could use some natural glue to hold it better that will still burn like pine tar or sinew glue on joints. Anyway beautifull rifle and nice video as always!
Amazing group! Seems to be much, much better than your other videos of you shooting smoothbores at similar distances strangely (but in this video you are firing standing!!!)! Do you know why? Also, is there any chance you will shoot this machine at further distances, such as at 100 meters?
I don't understand one thing. They already knew a saltpeter/potassium nitrate to make the black powder. So it is much easier to soak a piece of cloth/rope in a dissolved nitrate and then let it dry. It will smolder almost the same.
@@capandball Yeah I am not sure if it is a historic recipe but soaking a piece of rope in a water with dissolved nitrate (stumpremover) (or the blackpowder itsef) will do the trick. I have tried it many times as a child, it smolders like a cigarette.
i would really like to know where i could get weapons like this, my country allows the owning of blackpowder firearms without license, and ive always wanted some sort of snapping matchlock or tinderlock, where can i buy one of these?
Is it possible that tinder locks were used for very early arquebuses too like the ones depicted in the Berner Schilling chronicle of 1480 ? Or were they fired using only a hand-held burning slow match?
Didn't know i stumbled into a cooking class 😂. Nice video as usual! Quick question, why did the technology evolved fo muskets. I mean its a really nice suprisingly accurate for 30 m
@@offcenterforge1098 These fungi have been used as tinder since the late neolithic. Humanity has had a very long time finding out stuff by accident I guess. Probably these fungi also burn well when just dried. From there, someone accidentally dropped some in boiling ash water. Then why would they boil ash in water? Well, to make soap. How did they find out how to make soap? I guess they accidentally realized boiling ash and fat in water makes a soapy substance. They'd have a lot of ash and fat while cooking, so that one was an accident that had to happen sooner or later.
Like this matchlock! Excellent history lesson! Learned something new! Will be interesting to find out the other lessons on this gun! Capball always has excellent content! David Back from USA.
How did people figure out the tinder fungus? It seems incredible to me someone would boil it in lye and dry it to make fire. How could the modern man survive without technology...
CapandBall is like Hunglish Forgotten Weapons crossed with the Townsends and it is awesome!
Thanks!
@@capandball Isn't hunglish a grand language-unpatious yet we all know what you mean!
It looks like the cigar Clint Eastwood used to light the cannon in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. I might have to get me a cheroot-lock firearm and take up cowboy action shooting.
A Cheroot!
@@CameronMcCreary Make a blunt lock!🤣
Cheroot lock 😂
The design of the gun is elegant, the bright polished steel contrasts with the dark wooden furniture.
Great to see such a high quality reproduction of the tinder lock. The tinder lock was quite popular here in Sweden and massively outnumbered the ordinary matchlocks until the last quarter of the 16th Century as tinder was plentiful but the domestic production of slow match was very limited. The inventories even go so far as to distinguish between the weapons that can use tinder or match and the weapons that are only able to use match.
Slow match production would continue to be a problem until the reforms of Gustavus Adolphus when enough factories were set up to remove the need to mix the reliable and soldier proof matchlocks with more fragile weapons that did not consume slow match.
Interesting info indeed! Thanks!
Odd that match production was such an issue. If you have the capacity to produce gunpowder, match is simple. All you need is natural cordage of some kind and potassium nitrate.
You don't even have to have an industrial base capable of working metal to produce match.
Hello from the USA! I enjoy your videos, Capandball. Your background history, attention to detail, and overall effort that goes into your videos make them superb! Always a good learning experience. Thank you good sir!
Great ressearch! You are completing all the projects I had planned to 20 years ago...and much more! Congratulations!
:) we will all have enough to research. there so few interested in early firearms...
Thank you. I love the videos I learn so much from them.
I hope that was not one of Mrs Capandball's good saucepans!😀
It was. :)
One of these days, when the equipment is available to me, I hope to start making stuff like this. I just finished going to a trade school for gunsmithing, and early firearms was my focus. I even made a (Admittedly rough) handgonne for one of my final projects. Its such a shame you don't see stuff like this more often, its always a hugely fascinating experience and people are always intrigued when they see stuff like this at a range or demonstration.
The performance at 30 yards is remarkable. I’m impressed.
That's a beautiful piece! The matchlock arqua bus is my favorite old school black powder firearm. Thanks for the excellent video! 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
So there is an alternate universe where guns are still fired with a button on the side of the stock. Cool.
Thumb triggers kept coming back for centuries for target shooting purposes and even military trials.
Winchester made a thumb trigger rifle. I believe it was for youths as a first rifle. Can't remember why a thumb trigger was considered better for a beginner. Maybe it was just a cheaper mechanism suitable for a rifle that was less expensive to manufacture.
Fantastic! Love the smile on your face when you fire that beautiful and interesting weapon.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. Yet another high quality, very interesting video.
As usual, high quality video and demonstration. Thank you!!
Thank you for all of your videos. The archaic topics are some of the most fascinating.
I just finished building a snaplock very similar to this one. Except mine is much longer. I love how fast the action is. I'm already planning a carbine like this one.
Congratulations. Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷.
Well… this is absolutely going to be my winter project this year… building one of these muskets from scratch. I think I have pretty much everything I need but a large enough piece of walnut for the stock!
The trigger and lock mechanism is very simple and should be easy to make. I should even be able to find the fungus in the woods where I live.
Fantastic project idea. Thanks for the great video.
Awesome and informing video!
I live around birch trees so I have been using tinder for my matchlock as well. Burns really hot, so I have never had a problem of not getting the powder to light. I carve the insides of the fungus and put the part I want in a traditional birch ash lye solution (1 part birch ash to 8 parts of hot water). I cut my pieces to the proper size and length. They can however sometimes be a bit brittle so I have wondered if they wrapped theirs. Thanks for the proof! I will have to trie this method also!
The mushroom that I use, Fomes fomentarius or "tinder fungus", has a really thick outer layer of "tinder" so I have tried not beating it thin and cutting it straight to the desired shape. They are more stiff and less like leather that properly beaten and streched tinder. I store them in a little woven birch bark container🙂
I will trie these "rolled" ones also!
@@santerinurminen7909 I will try the stick version as well. Thanks!
@@capandballYour rolled versions seemed more consistant (thickness for example) and less brittle. But try some without flatnening or rolling and see what you think😁.
I didn't have any good evidence on how the tinder was made for the tinderlocks so I did the first thing that came to my mind!😂
I'm really glad that you can be a history teacher for us all and show and teach these things to us!
That smile when you fired the first shot ;.)
The arquebus is such an underrated part of firearms history.
Thank you for all you do!
Another excellent and really interesting video! Who made the tinder lock arquebus?
Google must have overseen you making some sort of ammunition. I'm shivering when I think of all the ghetto kids making trips into the woods far far away... collecting mushrooms, consuming some right away... and turning the rest into primers for their matchlocks! ;-)
:D :D I laughed out loud! The gun is made in Hungary, and will be commercially available in Q1 2025.
That was awesome! Thank you for taking the time to share this knowledge. That group, by the way, is very impressive all things considered.
Wow such a cool mechanism.
I've shared this to a few sites. It never hurts for them to learn!
Many thanks Wayne! I appreciate your help!
No fair! You're supposed to be wearing a comically large codpiece while shooting that!😊
Don't worryi. It will come to make you laugh. :)
Az asszonyod gondolom respektálta a hamulevest, betétként taplógombával, és a receptet is azonnal elkérte! 😄 Nagyon szemléletes lett a bemutatód, mint mindig! Vannak a papírról és fejből értekező hadtörténészek... projektorral és lézerpálcával..., és szerencsére vannak a "kísérletező" társaik, akik újra alkotnak és szemléltetve élesben bemutatnak egy antik fegyvert! 😊👍👌
Asszony már megszokta az ilyen hülyeségeket az elmúlt 20 évben. Szegénykém kapott ilyesmiből rendesen. :D Tartok tőle anno nem tudta mire vállalkozik. Dehát benne volt ez is apróbetűsben. :D
@@capandball Az a lényeg, hogy "felnőtt" a bogaraidhoz! 😄 Az enyém asszony még 20 évvel ezelőtt megkérdezte volt: "Mikor vetted ezt a puskát... távcsövet?" De mostanában már nem fecsérli szóra sem, és csak legyint egyet, vagy észre sem veszi! 🤣 (Igaz én csak a szabadon tartható légfegyvereket "táraztam be" a szekrényembe, abból is csak rugósakat és csakis eredeti németeket. Egy .22 LR hüvely nagyon szépen tud fütyülni 25 méteren...! 😊)
I’m a keen forager and aware of the tinder fungus but had no idea how it was used. Fascinating. Thanks 🍄
Tissue paper is a really good option if you want to make a slow match using modern materials. You roll it and twist it in the opposite directions. You can use some water, but then don't twist it too much. Too tight roll will extinguish itself. Without water you can twist as much as you can and it won't become too tight. 30cm slow match will burn one and a half hours. Gun powder dust inside of it makes the burning time faster. Because of that, the end part will be hotter.
Something I will have to try.
@capandball
I have used paper tissue as a slow match long before I even knew there were guns using that as an ignition mechanism. I was twelve years old when I invented it. I needed a reliable and cheap way to ignite fireworks at New Year's Eve . When temperature is -30 °C the slow match is the best ignition method for fireworks. You can keep your gloves on.
Depending on the quality of the paper you're using, you may have to use some wooden pegs. The wooden pegs will keep the roll tight and prevents it from opening immediately. After a day, take the pegs off, and the roll should stay tight. With the water method, don't use pegs. The pegs will usually squeeze the paper too tightly, and that's the part where slow match will extinguish itself. If I make long match sticks, I tie some support knots using thin jute wine rope. Knots will slow down the burning rate and prevent the roll from opening.
Reminds me alot of the guns that were shown in Princess Mononoke
Japan used arquebus style matchlocks for many decades after the West had moved to flint and even cap locks. Hence their use in Mononoke!
@@PrebleStreetRecordsThat's right, and the serpentine lever on the gun shown in the video looks very similar to the ones that were in the movie, tinder sticks included.
Awesome video! We need to see the inside of that lock!
Next part will come soon.
Interesting peace of kit u got there
Incredible work, I never knew about the fungus! So neat
Interesting that cigarillo-like sticks came before widespread use of match, just like lighter arquebuses before heavier ones, or wheellock before the generalization of flintlock. Also, this beautiful weapon reminds me of Lady Eboshi from Princess Mononoke.
Amazing thank you.....
Old Shoe🇺🇸
That's a unique looking Matchlock!
Bom trabalho,.foi aí que tudo começou
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Geat video ! Thank's.
I had heard of Nordic "Mushroom guns", and I have a matchlock I made (a Tanegashima teppo), so it is neat to see how to make the tinder to try that out!
This was amazing and informative, I had heard of tinder sticks before but never gave them a second thought. Additionally many reproductions matchlocks I have seen only have a fixed front sight at best so that was interesting to see as well. Well researched and informative. I am curious about what situations would lead a tinder stick to be used over slow match in a operational sense. Great video!
Great video and a nice „rifle”
Great video I like matchlock Muskets The Interesting research
5inch group from a smooth bore at 30 meters. this is realy realy good!
Wow, really nice replica.
With all that work making the tinder, it surely could not have been a single shot per tinder. If so, people would have found a more efficient way of firing the gun. I totally agree with your conclusion.
The lock time on that is quite a bit faster than I thought it would be. Very, verry neat.
Other sessile polypores may be as suitable. I'd try whatever ganoderma grows local. Many trametes are that cotton leather. Pounding pieces together to get larger sheets is done. The horse hoof is made into hats that are similar to felt.
The labyrinth conks, locust cork tops, giant puffballs, all kinds might work.
The horse hoof has limited more northern range than most of the world's population.
I really enjoyed this informative video with my morning coffee. Greetings from the USA. Would love to see the internals of the lock.
I find matchlocks fascinating, more interesting than the later ignition systems. That style of matchlock was the first to be used in the assassination of a Scottish nobleman.
Now I get it how the Tanegashima got it's impression from . Although Tanegashima is bit more simplified I think
Maybe simple hide glue from game skin/hide is able to be spread on the flattened tinder, then roll them up, keep them stacked close to each other. The hide glue may clot quicker than the wired drying method. Also, it wont affect burning characteristics, what's more, maybe slows the burning down a bit of tinder roll, lengthening it's lifetime. Just an idea, also fits to that era's contemporary assets.
I am after the original methods.
@@capandball anyway, hats down to your dedication to redoing and especially reliving the 'real deals' of man's history!
In many ways, I do envy your hobby, your work and all the things you experience.
@@tmsaskg Many thanks!
Did food dehydration machine exist in 1546 ?
Really like your knife. A knife maker is taking those knives and putting upgrades for handle, and fine leather sheaths, giving those knives a really fine look and feel. I’ve owned one for decades, and probably the best knives available for a production blade.
The machine was and is called: Dryness + wind. :)
There were actually food dehydrators around then. They were powered by embers rather than heating coils and such, but the principle of circulating hot air to speed drying was very much known then.
We have chaga mushrooms here in the northeast that grow on the side of the white birch trees, and they're used to boil down and make into tea, who would have guessed that they can be made into tinder sticks? It makes you wonder who the first person was to discover that all those centuries ago.
One of Beretta's first guns they made, was an Arquebus.
can you use woody perennial fungus as a substitute for cork for wine plugs and boards?
my mind wounders? what if? you worked the shapes wet, then dried them to shape? like stiff leather armor and such of these days.
God Bless! Thanks for keeping history working and alive.
I did that exactly in the video.
This was so cool... I want one! Hahaha
This is great work Cap, thank you for sharing.
I do have a question it's not period correct, but do you think a Minié ball would work in the match lock? And possibly improve accuracy?
The Miné bulléet was designed for rifles. A Nessler ball would be better. That's also expansive.
@capandball oh ok, that would be cool to try out
Hel, I'll stick with my Jacob de Gheyn instructions & my POS rifle shoppe kit. The barrel was good, everything else... not.
But it was a great video.
Love your videoes! I have always been wondering what happened in the days of matchlock and flintlock when a battle had started and it suddenly started to rain and it was impossible to keep a match or gunpowder dry? Did they carry on and just ditched all firearms and used sword, spears and other edged weapons?
In the early days of gunpowder I guess it was more adaptable as they also had crossbows and bows
I live in the south west Norway and it rains a lot so I’m guessing it was truly a revolution when the percussion cap was invented in a country with a very similar climate namely Scotland, they say necsseity is the mother of all inventions
This gun looks beutifull!
I can see it being easier then halling around a big match cord
One question one proposal.
1. Where is the trigger on that gun?
2.To get universal size maybe roll a mushroom over the small mandrel and then wrap it with wire and dry? Or cut it in thin strips and roll it sideways on mandrel so they overlaps-that way you could make long rolls.
I wonder if you could use some natural glue to hold it better that will still burn like pine tar or sinew glue on joints.
Anyway beautifull rifle and nice video as always!
Both are good ideas, thanks! I'll try them. The trigger is the circular botton behind the lock plate. I press it with the right hand thumb.
@@capandball Button. A "bottom" is something you shouldn't be touching with your thumb without consent :D
@@skepticalbadger :D :D :D definitely :D where are my glassees anyway. :)
Spannschnappschloss 🙂
:)
Is this the matchlock that they were selling at the MLAIC?
Interessantes Teil 😊👍
Matchlock tinders - what you don't use to fire your musket can be added to your soup !
Phenomenal
6:20 can't wait to taste the gunsoup lol
Descriptive language is rare in my country. The US has few multi lingual people.
Amazing group! Seems to be much, much better than your other videos of you shooting smoothbores at similar distances strangely (but in this video you are firing standing!!!)! Do you know why? Also, is there any chance you will shoot this machine at further distances, such as at 100 meters?
Yea, if that was one of my choices, I’ll stay with the crossbow till flintlocks come out!
I don't understand one thing. They already knew a saltpeter/potassium nitrate to make the black powder. So it is much easier to soak a piece of cloth/rope in a dissolved nitrate and then let it dry. It will smolder almost the same.
I am collecting recipes for making the match now. I am quite sure that I'll find something like this.
@@capandball Yeah I am not sure if it is a historic recipe but soaking a piece of rope in a water with dissolved nitrate (stumpremover) (or the blackpowder itsef) will do the trick. I have tried it many times as a child, it smolders like a cigarette.
Why did the matchlock replace the snaplock? The snaplock appears to be a more sophisticated weapon.
Great video! How would the soldiers light the match in the first place, did the cary a small candle or a tinderbox with them?
Tinderbox is an easy solution. The Löffelhoz codex also displays wheel lock tinder lighters dated 1505.
@@capandball Alright, thank you so much!
i would really like to know where i could get weapons like this, my country allows the owning of blackpowder firearms without license, and ive always wanted some sort of snapping matchlock or tinderlock, where can i buy one of these?
These guns will be in production in a few months. Where do you live?
@@Kapszli-Capandball i live in the netherlands, specifically the province of frisia
@@ranoutofnames6595 We'll be able to ship there in 2025 Q1.
Is it possible that tinder locks were used for very early arquebuses too like the ones depicted in the Berner Schilling chronicle of 1480 ? Or were they fired using only a hand-held burning slow match?
The Berner and Luzerner Chronik shows arquebuses without locks. Very common in the second half of the 15th century. But they are great sources indeed.
How does the trigger work. Are you pulling with your left hand?
The button behind the lock is the trigger.
Who can I contact about purchasing one of these?
I would love to learn how to make this. You wouldn't happen to have dimensions would you?
The gun is not made by me, but by a Hungarian company. It will be available soon.
@capandball I look forward to it. Thanks for responding so quickly as well!
Didn't know i stumbled into a cooking class 😂. Nice video as usual! Quick question, why did the technology evolved fo muskets. I mean its a really nice suprisingly accurate for 30 m
Change of tactics. The musket ball had a larger effective tactical range than the light bullet of the arquebus.
@capandball thank you for your explanation!
The forbidden stew
I had a silly idea: could you use a rolled piece of tobacco leaf, a cigar, or cigarette as a tinder?
Yes. :) Tried it.
Is there anybody using this to hunt deer with I would love to try my hand at this
You have to wonder how they ever figured all of this out. How to you get from match to, maybe if we boil fungus with ash?
The tinder came before the match. I'm still watching lol. Still, who figured this out?
My guess is that it might have been one of the dormant medieval methods of keeping a little for quick use.
@@offcenterforge1098 These fungi have been used as tinder since the late neolithic. Humanity has had a very long time finding out stuff by accident I guess. Probably these fungi also burn well when just dried. From there, someone accidentally dropped some in boiling ash water. Then why would they boil ash in water? Well, to make soap. How did they find out how to make soap? I guess they accidentally realized boiling ash and fat in water makes a soapy substance. They'd have a lot of ash and fat while cooking, so that one was an accident that had to happen sooner or later.
The sticks look like a small cigar,
リクエストです！日本の火縄銃を使って下さい！😊
海外の火縄銃とは､違うけど性能はすごいですよ！
Like this matchlock! Excellent history lesson! Learned something new! Will be interesting to find out the other lessons on this gun! Capball always has excellent content! David Back from USA.
How did people figure out the tinder fungus? It seems incredible to me someone would boil it in lye and dry it to make fire. How could the modern man survive without technology...
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It's a very heavy weapon.
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It is a very light weapon in that age.
@@capandballcould you perhaps make more vids with the lovey firearm, man?
Very Cool ᛬D
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Lets make some Hungarian Goulash (Gulyás) in the next video.
The only food I can cook. :)
I’m a hillbilly that shoots muzzleloaders.
can you drink that water used to boil the fungus as a herbal tea?
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