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Thank you Tidewater Kid!
Because I sent it sideways (not that it matters), here are the tools from clockwise:
Die & form (both wood) for bending sheet brass into a pistol grip.
brass trigger guard
sanding block (fun, short project just because I had time and scrap wood)
Tracing marker
Hinge patch box forming jig (top object at 6 o'clock, 2 x 2 square metal)
Three relief carving tools (one has handle)
Mandrels for forming pipes/thimbles. right one is for entry pipe and can do both round and octagon shape. One on left is just for regular pipe/thimble
Forearm scraping tool (had cutters on the side and the round part fits the ramrod channel as a guide)
cast brass buttplate
Center: left to right
silver wire inlaying tools
marking scribe
Not shown are the mortise chisel and loop saw - both were made from worn needle files.
The mandrels were heated red (as were the mortise chisel and loop saws) and then immersed into kerosene. Sorry but I never asked why Kerosene and not water. The smaller relief carving chisels were stuffed into a can of ash. Afterwards they were all polished and then tempered (the big mandrels in a nitreblue solution) and the smaller parts by an alcohol lamp that was blown with a copper jewelers' pipe.
18th Century technology is awesome!
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