Steampunked Handguns?

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indy1919a4 said:
AAAAARRRRRGGGGG you can not get away with this.. Please sir just a little info on them??? Did they work??? Pretty pretty please...

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Both revolvers functioned and were created by a man named George Tibert I believe. I really wish I’d taken a better picture if the carbine also.

All three were beautifully machined and fit by hand. All were chambered in 38 Special. If I’d had $4000 I’d have happily bought the revolver on the left.
 
JFrame said:
What I've heard, regarding steampunk, is that the technology being depicted might be fantastical and/or whimsical -- but ultimately, it has to make some sort of internal "sense" (like any good science fiction, really).
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That was the early steampunk aesthetic. It's not easy to figure out how a steam powered Flux Capacitor would work, so they tended to restrict it to large complex things that were only generally explained or small practical things. 'The Wild Wild West' is a excellent example of that. The technology was either the villain's big doomsday machine or Jim West's takedown derringer he had concealed in the heels of his boots.

JFrame said:
Clearly, that second pic has jumped the shark in that regard... :)

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First one doesn't pass muster in my book.
 
I wish I had a picture of it,,,
But I saw a steampunk revolver made from an old brass frame Remington cap and ball revolver.

The owner tossed the cylinder and replaced it with this thing from wood that looked like a drum magazine,,,
He also did the thing with two small magnifying glasses as a scope.

Oddly enough, in the right light the "scope" actually worked a bit.

For the grips he mad a much larger and ornate set that looked very Victorian.

Neat fantasy armament.

Aarond

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Steampunk. Yuck. I've been around stationary gas engines and steam engines since I was born. My uncle owns a Rumely that I've driven through threshing shows.

The Steampunk fad is just people soldering brass piping and adding monocles to stuff to look more like Mr. Peanut for some reason.

Some very cools guns here. Maybe it's the "punk" part that bugs me. Or the trend of it.
 
Some people like Steam Punk and some people like Fantasy Football and some people like both.
 
DocRock said:
Excellent trove! What in the name of Sam Colt is the second one from the top?
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That's one of the Mannlicher models.

Full disclosure, I don't own any from that first group, although I'd love to have them.

Most of those are straight from Wikipedia, as ISSUED handguns from Austria.
Steampunk seems to focus on the Imperialist fashions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and you don't get any more Imperialistic than what was coming out of Vienna. Gaudy uniforms, lots of medals (the shiny metal kind, not some bars) and ribbons, leather knee-high cavalry boots etc.
 
lsudave said:
That's one of the Mannlicher models.

Full disclosure, I don't own any from that first group, although I'd love to have them.

Most of those are straight from Wikipedia, as ISSUED handguns from Austria.
Steampunk seems to focus on the Imperialist fashions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and you don't get any more Imperialistic than what was coming out of Vienna. Gaudy uniforms, lots of medals (the shiny metal kind, not some bars) and ribbons, leather knee-high cavalry boots etc.
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I think the Mannlicher 1894 wins.
 
I don’t like the “punk” aspects of steampunk, but I always felt that the whole steampunk aesthetic was a positive move, adding some beauty and gratuitous adornment to objects, which was often done in the 19th century when things were more hand-finished, and all but disappeared in the 20th century with the constant drive for increased function at lower cost.

I don’t care for random “industrial” decoration, like randomly welding on brass pipes, but if someone wants to make a functional piece more beautiful, like adding a fluted cap to an already existing fixture, or making a pipe out of more elegant yet expensive brass rather than polymer (if function isn’t seriously compromised) I’m all for it.
 
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