OM Bisley Single 6

[sack peterson]

Ive been working on this about 6 months. Its almost ready to send out for finishing.

* With some freestyle soldering I skirted a hammer to replicate the Bisley style hammer
* Used the 'Flatgate' tutorial to build a trigger return spring in the NM Bisley frame
* Took a touch of the extreme oval ness out of the trigger guard
* Soldered a scrap trigger to a good trigger to make one that would fill the Bisley slot
* Plugged the front half of the Bisley trigger slot.
* Reduced the grip frame to #5 size, pulled the front 'toe' out, and made it a two piece assembly.

I need a front sight, but I have a plan..

 

[Easy Ed]

Looks good to me Sack. Good project and a lot of thought there.

Ed

 

[flatgate]

Cool! Yes, you need a 3 story tall front sight.....

A NM .32 Mag Single Six front sight is "screw attached" and kinda
tall. It it's too short then some "'smithing" is in order.

flatgate

 

[flatgate]

Oh, and now you need to graft a Bisley hammer spur to your OM hammer....

My "life long" OM .357 to .44 Special project! (I actually shot it a couple of months ago....... :roll: )

flatgate

 

[Aeroscout9]

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That's alot of work. Wow I really like where it's going!

 

[REP1954]

sack petersen, Thats coming along real nice. Looks like you have been having alot of fun there. Are you going to fill us in on your ideas for finishing?

 

[sack peterson]

Absolutely....

This is going to be a shooter, but I'm OCD enough that I think I'll really be dissapointed when the day comes and this has a turn ring. And I think it's inevitable, its safety converted lock work.

So its going to get a hard chrome, because I think it will be impervious to the bolt. And also because I've got a bit of solder here and there, and I'm not sure how that will look under bluing.

BUT... I think its getting stags...and I'm really stuck on yellow / cream offset against bluing, so its going to be a blackened hard chrome.

 

[flatgate]

If I remember correctly, the "Conversion Kit" lockwork will not ring the cylinder if operated in the proper sequence. (It's been a long, long time since I've fiddled with the Conversion Lockwork.... sorry....)

Rule #1 Never lower the hammer from half cock. Always pull it to full cock prior to lowering it down to the "at rest" position.

This procedure applies to any/all "traditional lockwork" single actions.

Yeah, stags!

flatgate