Here is a selection from W.W. Greener's Modern Breech-Loaders in detailing barrel making techniques as described by W.W. Greener or his father W. Greener. I don't want to state the obvious or be redundant. So if anyone wants to see the 2 pages this text is contained within, let me know & I'll try to take a pic of it.
"The generality of barrel-makers spoil this metal by an attempt to obtain figure; for all extreme twistings in the rod depreciate the metal by separating the fibres: to borrow a simile, they obtain only an over-twisted rope. This is not only disadvantageous, but useless; for the extreme density of the metal renders the figure difficult to be shown distinctly, as acid acts upon it but slightly, and never so well as on metal fabricated from two differently constructed carbonised materials."
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Raimey
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