original style cleaning equipment

[Sixgun Bart]

Does anyone make cleaning rods/accessories like the ones originally used for Colt Cap and Ball revolvers?

I have found very little info on these accessories on the net.

[River City John]

Start with Dixie Gun Works. They have items, plus tools, etc. for filling in cased sets.

www.dixiegunworks.com

[Sixgun Bart]

Start with Dixie Gun Works. They have items, plus tools, etc. for filling in cased sets.

www.dixiegunworks.com

I already dug through dixie gunworks - they did not have anything.

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[St. George]

Dixie Gun Works does sell a number of accouterments - nipple wrenches, screwdrivers, flasks - those things that were commonly a part of a cased revolver.

They - along with S&S Firearms - also sell some original Civil War era 'brush and thong' bore cleaning 'equipment', as used with the various carbines of the time.

As to cleaning rods - you have to go further down the trail, time-wise - and then you begin to encounter 'barracks rods' and buttstock rods that were used by the Frontier Army, though Henry and Winchester both had screw-together rods.

If it's a 'Gun Cleaning Kit' that you're after - those don't start being offered until the big mail order houses catalog them in the latter 1880's.

Good Luck.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Black River Smith]

Can you provide a detailed discription or provide a picture of what you have in mind or direct us to a picture in a reference book?

ie. are you referring to the wood handled rod with slit using flaw as a scrubbing material.  Or    Spiral bottle brush.  Or   Rod with finger loop on one end.


Also looking in the book COLT by RL Wilson, the cased/boxed guns after the Dragoon's (~1849 on) do not appear to have brushes or cleaning rods as part of the box.

Please provide some addition guidance.

[Sixgun Bart]

Can you provide a detailed discription or provide a picture of what you have in mind or direct us to a picture in a reference book?

ie. are you referring to the wood handled rod with slit using flaw as a scrubbing material.  Or    Spiral bottle brush.  Or   Rod with finger loop on one end.


Also looking in the book COLT by RL Wilson, the cased/boxed guns after the Dragoon's (~1849 on) do not appear to have brushes or cleaning rods as part of the box.

Please provide some addition guidance.

I dont really know what original cleaning equipment looked like. I did some web searched and did not find anything.

Barry

[Dan Topper]

There a couple of places I have found pictures of cleaning equipment.  Books by R. L. Wilson show cased sets of firearms (Steel Canvas in particular, but also Colt an American Legend) with all the necessary accessories.  In the recent auction catalog from Rock Island Arms a Colt Single Action Army (circa 1883) is pictured with the cardboard box and a bottle brush type cleaning tool.  The recent book on small frame conversions "Variations of Colt's New Model Police & Pocket Breech Loading Pistols" also has some cased sets with a steel cleaning tool.  These are similar to the ones sold at Midway and made by Dewey (these are brass) with a finger loop on one end and threaded on the other (item number 616-296 on page 240 of the Master Catalog, and not the ones with the plastic handles but the ones above those).  Hope this helps.

Topper