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Bronze Casting: Making a medieval firearm: The Danzig handgun/handgonne

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#appliedarchaeometallurgy #medievalfirearms In this video archaeometallurgist Dr. Bastian Asmus demonstrates his hypothesis how an early medieval handgonne could have been cast in Bronze using the lost wax method. He also shows how it was fettled, filed and finished. A wooden tiller is made from ash wood.
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14 авг 2024

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@stereomaster4231 11 месяцев назад

Imagine trying to get through airport security with one of these in your carry-on bags

@jeffyoung60 9 месяцев назад

Beautiful piece of wax sculpture. It was rare for Europeans to create decorative firearms. This was something more common in Persia and the Far East. There has been a small resurgence in the interest in medieval hand gonnes recently. 20th century weapons and firearms book writers gave short thrift to medieval hand gonnes. Historian writers claimed the hand gonnes were capable of hurling a small metal or rock ball with better than a man's punch but no more. The hand gonne's primary effectiveness was its startling and frightening loud explosion. But in the 1990s researchers tested reproductions of medieval hand gonnes and discovered that the firearms were far more deadly than thought. This is why medieval hand gonnes lasted for well over a century. It was common sense that medieval soldiers would not use a weapon that was ineffective.

@kelvinsparks4651 2 года назад

Very good and a great result. I've always been interested in ainchient firearms and so glad I found your video. Thank you.

@tylerthegrimm 4 года назад

Really interesting video, and that's a nice looking hand cannon. Hello from Texas.

@ArchaeometallurgieDe 4 года назад

Hello to Texas. You are right, it is a nice looking hand cannon. That is why I chose to re-make it (:

@tylerthegrimm 4 года назад

@@ArchaeometallurgieDe are you going to make the breach loading one like in your animations?

@ArchaeometallurgieDe 4 года назад

the model is made, yes. But the thing is of questionable provenance. And that there is a complete one, with a cartridge? Too convenient for my taste... The other issue is that of safety. The cartridge is held in place only by a the breech block, which pivots around a small steel pin. There is no safety mechanism, i.e. if the breech block slides out of position, you get the cartridge in your face. Read more here if you like: en.archaeometallurgie.de/handgonne-cast-bronze-part-i/ That being said, I might still make it, to see how feasible it would have been to make one. After all there are contemporary design sketches, even if none of the handgonnes survive, heck , we do not even know if they were ever built. But there are plenty of other handgonnes out there, which would be very interesting to make, too. There will be something big soon.

@tylerthegrimm 4 года назад

@@ArchaeometallurgieDe awesome, and thanks yes I'll check it out. I like the content of your channel btw. It's fascinating what you do. Keep up the good work.

@WojciechP915 4 года назад

I am surprised by how wet the loam is when applied.

@ArchaeometallurgieDe 4 года назад

Remember that this is only one of the dozens of possibiilties to make clay/loam moulds the "supposedly" medieval way, but it works really well.

@sethmullins8346 2 года назад

I really want to do this myself now. I have a propane furnace, all I need is crucible tongs and I'll be ready to do it. I even have a lathe I could use to turn down the stub from a steel sleeve.

@homecookingonblitz9268 3 года назад

Soooooo beautiful

@mcRydes 11 месяцев назад

wow, I wonder how much range you can get out of a little gun like that! I wonder how the strength of bronze compares with iron barrels?

@ArchaeometallurgieDe 7 месяцев назад

Many of us ask ourselves the very same question, and there are no well documented trials to study that. However more important would have been the quality of the cast... Well made bronze cannon did do a tremendous job compared to cast iron ones. Then again "iron barrels" encompasses SO MANY alloys, that the question can really only be answered of specify what you mean by that.

@theoldehandgonne2503 4 года назад

Again, very good. What type of animal hair did you use for the loam?

@ArchaeometallurgieDe 4 года назад

cattle hair

@JimHolmgren1 3 года назад

How would the barrel be drilled in medieval times?

@ArchaeometallurgieDe 3 года назад

It wouldn't. They were cast with the bore and all they round did was to clean out and "ream" tue cast cavity. Boring the Barrel from a solid cast cannon is only really done much later..

@jeffyoung60 9 месяцев назад

Another interesting point. Medieval hand gonnes tended to be anywhere between 12 inches to as much as 18 inches. Exceptions were longer of course, but as said, just exceptions. 12 inches to 14 inches seems to be the most common lengths although standardization as we understand it today did not exist then. Therefore, the short Danzig artistic hand gonne was definitely in the 'exception' category.

@Thecompanioncrate 3 года назад

Drip cannon. Did you say that was a pagan slavic figure the heads represent? I assume the handgonne was found in danzig as the name suggests.

@ArchaeometallurgieDe 3 года назад

It is a find from just before the 1920s and it is under debate as to whether it was found in Schwedt an der Oder in present day Germany or in Gdansk in present day Poland. Since it was in private hands for so long, and it is not from an archaeological excavation it will remain unclear as to where it was dug up. For some reason it became to be known as the Danzig handgun.- I did mention that it may have been the Slavic god Triglav, as it was suggested by Petri (2017) in his article on the matter. I find the his hypothesis convincing, though it is just that: A hypothesis... Hope this helps

@jeffyoung60 9 месяцев назад

Reproduction medieval hand gonnes are available for sale on the Internet for hobbyists, historians, and medieval re-enactors. Expect to pay estimated $300 U.S. currency or more. The reproduction manufacturers claim the reproductions are safe to fire as long as the operator follows the instructions, for example, not exceeding the recommended black gunpowder charge, not obstructing the barrel, so forth. The advantage is that a buyer can count on the metallurgy quality today whereas it was still an art back in the Middle Ages.