Making a Brass Cannon 

I’m a recently retired Design & Technology teacher and I first started making these with 14 year old students 40 years ago. It was a great way of them developing a “tool kit” of skills that would serve them well when designing and making their own coursework projects. I started with brass, but transitioned to casting the barrel and wheels in aluminium to bring in, even more processes and techniques. Sadly, this level of work is no longer evident. However, some of the work that the students were doing at the point where I retired using CAD/CAM, Systems and Control and Electronics is equally challenging.

To quote Mr Spock "fascinating". Well done, beautiful result 👍

Truly beautiful work! What an awesome project!

Sir! You earned my sub with your most excellent use of a boring pun, drilled it! LOL! Oh, and your cannon is super cool beans awesome too, well done.

Beautiful work!

This reminds me of my machine shop class in high school back in the early 90's . Making a canon was one of our projects.

OK, now you got me motivated to do one of these. I am making field cannons, but one of these looks like fun. I have a shorty setup barrel that would be perfect. Nice work.

Love it. Its on my list for 2018 to get on board with making one of these. I want to make a field artillery cannon with the large spoked wheels. I have 2 suggestions, or comments for you. If you pull a lathe tailstock off center towards you and drive the part between centers, long taper turning can be done with your carriage power feed. The offset in centers determines the taper. Second, when you turn an OD taper and think you may have secondary operations on the part like backside turning or cross hole drilling, Bore a bushing while the compound is setup at your angle, then just split the bushing and you have a perfect cylindrical nest for a tapered shaft. Good job on this. I wish you showed the bending of those side cleats. Thumbs up!

That was perfect music for this vidio!!!

That came out great, nice work!

Beautiful build!

Did anyone else hear that (Lock's Quest) music in there? Man, that nostalgia! (Play the game if you haven't, you will thank me!) Loved the vid by the way, good job!

Great workmanship!!!

Beautiful work. 👍

I made one in high school very similar but they wouldn't let me drill the fuse hole. So, of course the first thing I did when I got home was drill the fuse hole, load it up with some black powder. It sounded like a shotgun and the base was completely destroyed on the first shot.

had to make a cannon similar to this for my 1st year millwright course :D really enjoyed it

Very nice work.

Out of all the miniature cannons I've seen machined on RU-vid, I think this is the only one that actually has the look of a proper naval gun instead of some short, stubby field gun. Though if it was me, I would've made the carriage out of a single piece of wood machined into shape. Also, I would have put the touch hole a lot further back, it wasn't uncommon for them to be placed just behind the first ring.

Very good bravo. Good work

Very nice work...

escutcheon pins will do the trick. looks great

Great work! How to find the CNC for this cannon?

love it

where are your drawings (what is Patreon?). I think your cannon looks great and I would love to make it. Fred

Could you have used the lathe to somehow form the teats (cross members that mount the cannon on the chassis). Then the bore could have been drilled to meet the touch hole. It would have been more authentic and if legal in your state actually fired. ( Only without a projectile re/ 4th of July New Years). However, Wonderful craftsmanship thank you!.

I am a beginner… How do you set up the small angle to cut conical shape?

Fire the damn thing!

Ich mag es wie du die gewindeplatte für den einstich benutzt hast😄

Do you have a store or a way to buy some of your handy work

You should have made the proper fixings instead of those crosshead screws. Apart from them it turned out great.

Very nice sir

Fire

You well done

I am more surprised how much it cost you for that brass stock. These thing are way expansive here. The 1" diameter cost 36$ for a feet length here in canada!

Does it go boom?

wow, a powerfull chickpea cannon...

Channels name is TabletopMachineShop, but then in the video he machines brass on a full sized lathe with Conan the barbarian music in the bg. +1 for you.

Fantastic vedio 😍😍😍😍😍😍

I would like to buy a Wepon like this

What was the degrees for taper?

A nice cannon...however I think possibly you could of used some dome head type peened nails to hold the cannon on to give it period styling as well as scale instead of the CSK screws....but that's just my thoughts anyways. :)

I made one of those in high school

slotted half-round bulging head screws are nicer than Phillips screw head

Beautiful work sir ! What is the estimated cost of the build ? Please.

The spinning machine that he is using to shape the brass what is it called???

Really perfect job, beautiful camera !!! Thank you for your video !!! 👍👍 j.pol ... cz

Are you going to sell it?

Allen Dustin could I get plans for your cannon project

Where can I get the program to make one of these

No shooting?

Have you fired it?

I screamed in fear when you wrapped that emery cloth around the part. That's how you lose your finger. Stay safe

now are you going to make the ship to go with the cannons

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If scaled up could this be fired?

Hello sir. Sir can you please share its exact dimensions .... I want to make it for my advanced workshop project

FIRAAA

thid is soa good

Brilliant, shame about the screws...!!

How would you charge to make one of those and that exact size

I searched Canon in D Brass Quintet this appeared.

I do the same but with wood

You are very easily influenced.

As he's drilling holes I blow on my phone to get the shavings away. Then realize it's a video

Why such a large flash hole?

The song from tokyo drift. 😎

How About some sizes of what you are doing

So much time and dedication went into this. Then suddenly...countersunk Phillips 😢Some round head or oval slotted would be my choice.

did anyone else pause this video thinking they were getting called on discord xD

Would it shoot ??

price if you want sale

Bhai çhannel been raha h kya

You could've shown it being fired.

Hi

does this dud still have all his fingers .the emmry paper should be no longer than the radios of the job that is to be polished ,or it might snatch and pull the operator in and rap ones arm around the job tearing off an arm or wares ,killing him .. Phil , engineer ps its a nice cannon.

meow

Franchement, ces vis cruciformes, qu'elle horreur

Sorry to be a safety nazi but you should alway keep your file handle in your left hand so you never get your sleeve over the chuck... off course doesn't apply if your machining in bear chest, since I can't tell...

Those philips screws awfull

#Make_brass_kanon

Very very disturbing background music

Why to make a cannon if you´re not going to fire it. Making a cannon, you´re never going to fire is like being boyfriend of a girl you´re never going to fuck. I´m very disappointed.

Bro Fr next time play some better music

Horrible music

No CNC - no like. Next time... :)

If anyone reading this know good blueprints for napoleon era/ US civil war field gun with measurements please give me link! Doesnt matter what country but something to help with dimensions so i can make it realistic.

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