I'm planning to build a replica William Bailes ca. 1760 double. It requires swamped barrels. Commercially available swamped barrels don't fit the description. Barrel makers contacted (Colerain, Rice, etc, etc) have either declined or not responded to a request for custom barrel work. So, I'm bringing this to the community.
I have raw round blanks in 19 and 11 bore. All that's needed is to machine the blanks into barrels. Anyone here have or know of someone that does have the machine capability to do this? Drawings can be provided for review on request. Thanks!
Hank
You have two barrels in 19 bore and two more in 11b? or your double with have one of each? Rifled? Not quite sure what you are looking for.
In any event, the one person that I'm quite certain could do this is Bobby Hoyt. Whether he would or not is another question I cannot even guess. Hoyt rebores barrels and also makes barrels from scratch. He made a custom .45 barrel for me in with a rifled false muzzle which I use on a Henry-esque muzzleloader. If it was just contouring the outside of the barrel, no doubt many other can do this, but I know that barrel contouring is not a favorite activity of many gunsmiths.
Are your barrels a leaded steel or true barrel-quality alloy?