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Hello
I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction - our club has a Pedersoli Frontier .45 flintlock rifle. It does not spark well, and I have read on the web that they did not harden the frizzen sufficiently on some rifles. I've contacted Kranks and they were as helpful as usual - not very. Does anyone know of a gunsmith who might be able to effect a repair?
Regards
Springfieldm6

You could try Ron Curley: http://www.greenshel.co.uk/

Many thanks, i'll give them a call.

If it's a hardening issue, reheat it & oil quench it?

It needs to be heated for a few hours buried in a carbon filled container, also whether it is surface hardened or through hardened informs the treatment.

I did one a few weeks ago, I used the wife's temp controlled kiln with some charcoal and kasenite it the crucible as that is what I had to hand so not too much of a problem. Quenching the lot afterwards holds your attention.

I think it could be a bit of a feck on if you don't have a temp controlled heat source, I find these colour instructions a bit vague for the occasional heat treater, its bright orange in this case, makes a change from cherry red.

Derbyshire arms do a frizzen hardening service, don't know anything about them though, seemingly precious few other people do either.

i done it for other small parts put them in a steel container with crushed charcoal and some bone meal and leather scraps put into embers of fire and left overnight with very good results

greenshoots

Was that to harden a frizzen or to colour case harden some parts?

both

greenshoots

What temperature was it at and for how long?

god knows as i said left in ashes of bonfire overnight, which is probaly what they did in days of old, done as more of an experiment then anything but it turned out ok been meaning to do it more scientificaly but its been put on the back burner at moment (pun intended)

greenshoots