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there are three main components to every musket of course you have the lock just there you have the stock and of course you have the barrel alongside these three main components if you will that really make up the meat of the gun you have a number of other bits you have things like the trigger guard the actual trigger itself you have a butt plate there you have your ramrod you have the bits of brass that just there have to keep the ramrod in place you have the pieces here to actually keep your sling on all sorts of little bits and pieces which have to go into making a full and proper musket but how exactly are they all held together because of course on certain pieces such as a Charlotte Vil for example you can see those great big barrel bands which actually keep the barrel attached to the stock but on a brown bess it always seems to be just sort of sitting in place what actually keeps this entire thing together well my musket is really quite filthy and I really have to start paying more attention to it have to start doing much more thorough cleanings and today will be the first of many sessions I imagine what I do so in order to actually properly clean the piece now really get in there with the nitty gritty and try and polish every piece that I can up to a more proper parade standard I'm going to have to disassemble the entire thing and I thought that might be an interesting process to show all of you [Music] so the first thing that I'm going to disassemble on this musket would be the actual lock I'm going to take it out of the piece which is a fairly straightforward process when compared to things like the barrel I can just remove the AR the hammer stall here which you can see just as a simple piece of leather which you can slide over top of the hammer there or the frizzen as it's now called - it's just as an added safety measure as whele it simply wraps around the trigger guard and you can loop it through one itself it's very simple simplistic sort of thing but the actual lock here you can see on the other side of the gun there are sorry it's upside down there well there we are we'll handle around a bit we have two screws there which actually keep the entire thing in place it's fairly straightforward fairly simple so if I can use my set that down gently as I can I will use my musket tool here which could probably make an entire video just about this little tool but for now it's a sort of a 18th century screwdriver if you will can use that to remove the lock here so there is screw number one and now we can begin on screw number two now I should add as I am removing the lock here that of course you can also disassemble the lock completely you know take apart all the little bits and pieces all the springs inside and all that sort of thing that is a much more complicated process requiring a few more tools than I have with me today so I'm not going to be doing that today perhaps some other time I'll get my hands on some vice grips we can actually you know decompress or whatever the term would be the springs in there and we can actually disassemble the lock I can show you that mechanism but that's for another time but for now ah I have if I can flip around and show you without actually having the lock fall out because that would be an expensive mistake to make I removed the two screws there which means that the actual lock will simply lift there we are right outside of its casing as you can see if you can't see the detail they don't know how far away and from the camera but uh it needs quite a fair bit of cleaning itself so I will be disassembling the entire thing to polish every bit in peace inside but uh well that is going to be a task for another day so I'll just put that aside there so then the lock itself is actually removed and as far as the common the average soldier back in the 18th century is concerned that's really the old at least as I understand it I've not actually read this myself in any sort of primary sources I will admit that I really do need to do more research on how men historically would be cleaning their muskets but as I understand it and this is sort of reinforced in the fact that I've never actually read a case of a man going further than this I've never read you know anything saying that they wouldn't but I've never read of a case of a man disassembling his musket any further than I've just done I believe this to be the case and of course I'll provide a correction down below in the comments if I need to if I need to do so but as far as I'm aware at least the average man the average soldier on campaign way back in the day naturally as he's on campaign he will be firing his musket he will have to clean his gun the average soldier would never do anything beyond what I have just done there the average man was not generally trusted to be able to handle you know disassembling a lock with how complicated it is and the fact that you do need rather specific tools to do so that's sort of the realm of gunsmith only so a regimental gunsmith who'd be in charge of handling all those sorts of things he would also not generally be taking things like the barrel out of the stock because of course it involved as we shall see a great deal many little bits and pieces that you know if you're in the middle of a field and something happens and oops I lost three of my pins well you're going to be in a very difficult spot trying to reconstruct our musket with little pieces of wood that you can find you know scattered around you know the officers tend to be rather upset about that sort of thing generally speaking the men would not be trusted to my knowledge again more details to follow I think but the men would not be trusted to really go as in-depth as I am doing right now that's as far as they would ever get now that being said remove the lock I think that the next step I'm going to do just for simplicity sake on my end is going to be removing the what's it called the the sling that's what's called the sling here which as you can see is held in place with a simple little swivel bit there which has a screw going through the stock of the actual gun mine is actually a little bit large there I think I need to replace that at some point but then I doubt historically that they're all perfectly sized either but a simple screw heading right on through the stock there to keep the to swivel bits in place that actually keeps the sling on the gun so if I can just unscrew those with a bit more fancy editing work ah there we are that is number one good moves out there and we'll owe screwed that one on backwards so I'll flip that around we'll take care of the next one of course the second screw here or the one more towards the base of the gun does not go through the stock of the musket but it goes through a small hole in the trigger guard which is there for that purpose which when I remove the trigger guard you'll be able to see that in better detail and there's the second one so we'll keep those aside and there we have the sling has been removed again we'll put that up there away from everything so then what do we have now basically we have things like the ramrod still in place we have the trigger-guard butt plate and everything and then we actually have the barrel inside the sock of the gun and something tells me that that's the bit that we're all very excited to see so I will now remove the barrel from Pisa first off we do have one screw kept in place just back there towards the rear of the battle that barrel sorry that metal piece that's I extending outwards I think it's called the tank I'm afraid I don't know the technical term for it we'll have to ask a friend of mine who's actually built one of these himself that's the metal piece there that is actually part of the barrel extend outwards there is a screw in place keeping that keeping it there keeping it inside the stock so I will unscrew that this part would have been much easier if I used a modern screwdriver but doesn't this just look so much better hey there we have it there's the other screw there which I will try and keep that aside as best I can so I remember which one goes where but indeed so there we have as you can see a little loop don't want to coil the microphone at all you can see a little hole there in the top and now for the rest of the barrel there are no more screws to keep the actual barrel in place instead what the brown bess relies on is a series of pins inside inside the stock going through the barrel to actually keep the entire thing you know in place so if I sort of stretch it forward a bit there you can see very tiny I don't know if you can really make it out but if you can't make it out on the video I'll be sure to put a little one on the side there and I'll just look a bit silly but you see a series of pins here throughout the length of the barrel which are sort of where's another one there's another one there sticking through the stock actually going through a little ah a loop if you will in the bottom of the base of the barrel and then back down into the other side of the stock it helps keep the in wallet indeed it doesn't help it is the thing keeping the barrel in place now of course I could be using a pin press to actually push these pins through but I don't have one of those so indeed I are instead I will be using the sharper end of the mousketool there then I'll be pulling them out using a pair of pliers if you do decide to do it that way you you know for yours for your own piece back home just do be careful that you don't end up bending the pins because that can prove to be quite a nuisance so with that we can get started on all of these and this will require quite a bit of skipping forward I think but simple enough I put it over top of the pin I push all that one came out quite easily I push it through of course as you can see the this is a very inefficient way of doing it hoped there we are but there's a pin there simply stuck it on push through to where now we have a little bit of it sticking up there and I will take my pliers to simply there we are to pull the pin out of place so now allow me to do that with all of the pins try and keep them in order as best I can so India there's one we have the second one about what halfway down the barrel just there you may notice a another pin just there but that actually keeps the brass piece there in place I'll be removing that next but Andy yes just there we have another pin halfway down the barrel so I will do the same thing with that one what and it fell out in fact that may have actually been the wrong pin for that place last time I reassemble the musket I did accidentally get a few of the pins mixed up so that one may have been actually a bit too small so you know it's not gonna fall out on it so it's still a fairly tight fit but I didn't have to pull it out with the pliers it was able to be pushed on through there we are found the other pin all right I'm a professional as you can say professional set up all right so that's one that's two then we have three and the yep that's it on the very end of the barrel there and oh yes that's the one that's definitely too long for that spot so this one probably belongs this pin a little bit further down but you know simple mistake doesn't particularly matter too much so I'll push that one on through there's the other pin and then of course we have yes one last pin on the very tip of the barrel just there so I will push that one through as well there we are and there is the final pin the I think it's the shortest one well it's one of the shortest ones at least there so now all of the pins I believe are out of the barrel the ones that are keeping the bow in place of course yes so I should be able to simply enough lift it yep there we are right there we are out of place out of the stock duh you know what actually the bottom of it is not anywhere near so bad as I thought it would be but say yes there we have the barrel of the gun would be again I think it's called the tang or something like that on the back there helping to keep the entire thing seated whenever it's being fired at least that's what I imagine that this back bid is for no bit of an odd shape there you can see of course the touch hole which oh there we are but a bit of following that I didn't catch earlier I suppose the touch hole just there and it is a completely closed unit it is basically just a very tiny very long ports you know other dimensions if you will cannon operates on the same exact principles as a cannon it's just yeah a lot smaller and there you have on the very bottom of the barrel the little loops as I said the little holes that the pins were of going through from inside the stock see there's two on the very end there and then we have the two on the back a bit wider spaced so I'll take the barrel position that bit separate and then we are left with the actual stock the sort of the casing if you will for the entire unit so with that let's do the other pins and remove the you know the the brass bits that are keeping the ramrod in place again same exact system we have pins going through loops which actually keep these brass pieces in place so using the same method I will push those out try to pull that one up this one has to have the there are wires there we are so there's another one we'll keep those on the other side there my and actually this would have been a good thing to mention during the how dirty do muskets get after firing but you can see I haven't really cleaned out the stock of the piece and so if you look on the inside and in particular just there actually yeah as long as I can actually do this you can see there just how dirty how much powder can actually build up underneath the barrel of the gun after being used so many times no I haven't ever actually cleaned out the inside of this bit which is again something that I really ought to have been doing I understand that now you know we all had to start somewhere when it comes to this hobby but yes yet I also have been cleaning that out because it's a actually not that much powder really is coming off so I'm guessing it's just been staying over the years but even still I'm gonna be doing a little bit of well you know polishing or glossing if you will for the actual stock here if I can figure out how to do so at least but yes indeed the powder will get underneath and will stain the actual bot the base are the V bottom of the barrel and the stock there like I said it gets everywhere so of course I remove you know what actually I should probably remove the ramrod before I remove all these brass pieces so I can actually take them out and show you as I go along so uh just place it alongside here and remove the ramrod if I can it's been getting a little stuck lately uh this ramrod is a bit miss sighs I think I have to sort of ream out a little bit at the base of the brass piece that actually keeps the entire thing in place so if I can just get this removed oh there we are it was a nice difficulties I thought it'd be actually so of course we have the ramrod a single solid piece of metal there no real surprises or difficulties with that so then back to the stock again we had a pin through the little brass bit there so now I can simply remove that and you can see where that was seated earlier oh my goodness me and as I said it's bright it's not really looking like brass right now that's another piece that I'm really going to have to spend quite some time scrubbing away at but there we have one of those now I can remove the next one just down here again same exact system let's get the hand underneath if I can so the pin doesn't fall out there we are come on ha ha there hand soap that's the second pin there we can remove that one there simple enough then there are two more which I'm actually going to rest the musket on the ground like that because of course the stock is very much weighted at the base there because not only do I have the trigger guard on the butt plate but you know that's where the most weight is so can make it rather awkward to try and do it on a table like this lets you know everything for the YouTube show how's it were there we are that's another pin keep all the pins in place now and another one there also needing a great deal of cleaning and polishing and the last one here on the end has two pins into that don't know if you can see but it's a fair bit longer on the end there because of course that is where the ramrod is actually sticking out so you don't want to be you know bending or flopping around or anything because it might snap at the very end so you want that one to be a bit longer and I can remove those two pins feel like I'm going into far more detail and all these little pieces that I really have to because most of its rather self-explanatory but you know I want to make any assumptions and you know the longer the video is the greater possibility that I can put a second advertisement in it and you know shamelessly profiteer off of your interest let's not pretend that this is anything different of course haha there's another one and the final pin how sad isn't it the final pin Oh actually no I take that back it is not the final pin it is the second-to-last pin or no it is indeed the final pin I confused a pin or a screw for a pin there earlier anyways we'll get to that soon enough here we have the final piece there that keeps the ramrod in place so now we have a completely barren bottom of the barrel there and we have this little piece of brass that's kept on the very tip of the musk of the very bottom there where the end of the barrel stretches out over the the rest of the barrel not entirely sure why there is a piece of brass there I would assume or I'd presume something about keeping the powder away from the wood of the stock helping to prevent more of it from getting caught in between there in the corners but then it may also well be purely aesthetic I'm not entirely sure I'm sure that plenty of others and the gunsmiths among us could shed a little bit more light about that sort thing but for that piece it is not held in place by a pin but actually I don't know if you can see it there but by a screw a very tiny screw which is actually a quite a little bit rusted now so it looks about the same shade as the wood but there is just in there a little screw which I will like position it like that that's not going to work will go like this and we will unscrew that which actually oh my the screw there is smaller than the smallest bits that I have on my oath and then these smalls but that I have on my musket tool and they're actually taking this bit off huh ha ha there we have it so we have the little loop of brass there that goes on to the very tip of the musket keep that there why not and then the actual screw which I dropped another screw don't worry I see where that one went and there we have the other screw which as you can see is very very tiny I think you can see how I actually managed to lose it for a little bit there but I found it again I found it that's the thing that matters my goodness me is terribly rusted actually not that much on the inside but on the on the outside it's a fair bit gone so I'm gonna have to apply a little bit of vinegar to that see if we can't fix that problem right so now what well we have the front half of the musket is pretty much completely barren now ah indeed it would be improper to me to call the front half the musket so much as it would be the wouldn't have the front half of the wooden stock there now let's remove I think the trigger guard a bit of fun there and the trigger guard if I can remember where's the other ah there we are of course the trigger guard I almost forgot how to actually disassemble it at first uh the trigger guard has one screw on the base of it or on the very back of it there you can just sort of see the very rear there that's of course where your arm where your hand would be gripping so it normally covers it up and it also has two pins which keep the entire thing in place so I will do the screw first as usual terribly modern thing where did my there it is yes which I'll use the 18th century method wherever possible and suffer through it as a result but that's fine it's authentic suffering that makes it ok ah ah something just happened that I didn't expect to happen but I really should have in hindsight of course the top bit of brass there which you will have noticed I hope throughout the entirety of the thing I did not have any sort of pinhole or goodness me my apologies or screws or would have you on on it well that is also held in place by the same screw which helps to keep the trigger guard in place can sort of see the top that's there is completely smooth but then on the bottom or the back there is the you know the area for the screw to go through there and again the entire thing has to be very thoroughly polished actually you know I I did actually spend like an hour or two before going to you know my first event in quite some time back when I was in Ohio to retrieve the musket I did spend a fair amount of time polishing this little bit just to see how long it would take to get a judgment for the rest of the thing took me a long time to get it polished up to the standard that I did have it which wasn't even all that much and after only two events it's already back down to this level so it's a constant process but that's the side as well there we are that screw there and now I can remove the two pins which keep the trigger guard in place you can see them very clearly on this side of the thing you know see one right there and one right there on the other side they're less obvious we have one just at the bottom of it right there of the bottom of the stock and then we have one which usually is usually hidden just behind the lock right there so I will go at about it I think from this side oh actually no I should say that was wrong I just realized one of the pins that one right there is it part of the trigger guard to keep it in place and then I just realized sort of drawing the line in my own head this pin just there I believe is used to keep the actual trigger in place which is separate from the trigger guard so you'll see that as I remove the trigger guard here using the one pin on the top aha well no that would be the problem it must have been again I warned you all to be careful when you're using pliers this pin is just a little bit bent which may be the result of my having to nail it but I believe because it was stuck I was done earlier when I was using pliers right for the first time when I first actually took this entire thing apart it just got a little bit bent there not a terrible big problem you know I can still use the thing but it did require a little bit of finagling to actually get out of place so with that should be able to remove his indeed the oh I was right there was there were there are two pins here for the for the trigger guard I just didn't see where the other one was at first there's another one just at the bottom of swell there so if I can remove that one as well using the same method there there's always another pin with this thing there's always another pin where you didn't notice it but of course there we are that one's much easier same exact method for that one Oh much better that one much better that aside and now I can remove simple enough the trigger guard which wow really needs to be cleaned very very badly very badly God but in any case the actual trigger guard regardless of how terrible a state it's in runs off of the same exact system you see the two little loops there for the pins to go through and the entire thing you know just fits right in is seated very exactly like that southern other than that of course we have the piece of brass which you can just make out here we are you can see just there how the trigger is sort of hanging loosely now down there and it is kept in place by its own piece of brass which I think actually because I removed the screw is here so I had to make sure that I knew what I was talking about at first but when I removed the screw here that helped to keep the barrel in place you know helped with the process and it went through the very top of the thing there that screw is also used to keep in place the bottom bit of brass there in which the trigger guard is seated so I should now be able to just lift that out of place maybe have to use this as a prior sorts oh no I won't be able to write because I didn't really rehearse this all that much I have to remove the actual trigger before I can remove that piece of brass because of course as you can see it it won't go past the trigger so again we have the one little pin there that keeps it in place and there we have the next one that one was rather tricky as well but it's not bent at all so yeah just a bit of a tighter fit I suppose on that one so we'll put that pin there now I can then remove the actual trigger which as well needs as I can see a great deal of cleaning but it's a rather interesting shape there again we have the the a spot for the pin to go through and I suppose the odd shape of the actual trigger there's because it does reach up into the lock and actually you know activate something there but that's that's the discussion for another time the actual trigger there the little loop metal on the bottom very nice shape there but that's just there and now we can remove as well the other brass piece which as I said earlier sort of seats the trigger and prevents it from running or touching up against the the actual wooden stock which as well wow really needs to be polished and cleaned this is another great extension of just how filthy a musket gets when it isn't volume if properly cleaned but it's indeed we have the piece of brass there the thing now otherwise we really only have the brass there which you know I've never actually removed that piece of brass I never actually thought about that ah how do I take that out I'm gonna see if I can it might not be a very good idea cuz I'm not entirely certain how it goes back but well we'll figure it out together shall we can I remove it like this aha there we are it actually is literally just seated in place there's nothing keeping this bit of brass in on its own it's just of course when you have the two screws of the lock in place that's going to keep this bit of brass in as well and yes there we have it nice simple little serpentine sort of design there on either side bit of a nice little Dacor beyond the absolute functionality of the thing even in a military piece and that leaves us of course lastly with the buttstock which simple enough is kept in place by two simple screws so I will now remove those here we have the second screw and that with that the butt plate will also come right off very simple to take off very simple piece and we have at last the plain wooden stock the beginning of the entire process as it were the the initial and the most important piece that holds everything else so we can take that and put that down and there we have it the musket has been completely taken apart now I get to clean the entire thing and try and put it all back together well that'll be fun quest until the next time mighty if you are I am and I shall remain your most humble and obedient of servants [Music]