A close replica to one of the 24 pound guns used on the ship USS Constitution.

The original guns were 10 feet long and fired 24 pound iron balls. Canons of that era were usually of cast iron but sometimes bronze, and with oak carriages. Everything on the model works just as on the originals. If you want to be historically correct rather than have a polished mantle piece like mine, the barrel and all fittings should be black and the carriage of oak. Either way, it is an impressive model that will take "center stage" on your fireplace mantle, book shelf or desk.

The plans set consists of 8 sheets of drawings, an info sheet and a sheet of construction and assembly notes.

Specifications: Scale: 1/10th, Length: 12-1/2", Height: 4-1/4", Bore: 9/16"  

All of our plans projects are machined from metal bar stock (supplied by you, the builder) and no castings are required. This is the lowest cost way for you to build as the metals can usually be purchased from metal salvage yards for around $2.00 or so per pound for aluminum, brass and stainless steel. But as can be seen, most of the model projects are designed to look like they were in fact made from castings instead of rectangular blocks and round bars of metal.  High precision machining is required. 

You will need a lathe and a milling machine with the usual tooling items.  You will need a horizontal/vertical rotary table for your mill if you want to duplicate the visual design aspects of some of the projects - spoked flywheels, fluted columns etc., but the engines will operate just as well without those features. 

Please note - we do not have any ready to run projects or bolt together project kits for sale. The plans are for a model replica - the project can be scaled to any size, but no claims of suitability for practical use are made.

The Plans Set drawings are high quality computer generated drawings using a professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) program and printed on 8-1/2" x 11" sheets with a laser printer. This permits you to insert them in plastic sheet protectors so they won't get soiled as you use them in the shop. Dimensions are in U.S. inch decimals - no fractions - which makes it easy for you to change the scale of your model to suit your machine tool capacity or the materials you have on hand or have access to. Multiply dimensions by 25.4 to obtain millimeter dimensions. 

NOTE: If you want your plans right away, send us a message with your email address and we will email you a link to download a PDF of the plans.  If you are successful in downloading, we will cancel mailing of the hard copy and refund 80% of the eBay shipping cost.

We are the owners of this copyrighted material.  Sale or giving away our plans is strictly prohibited!