Just picked up a another rock lock pistol. It's one of the Japan imports I'm guessing from the early 70's and has a three digit serial number on the breach along with "Japan". The barrel is about 9 inches long and goes from hex to round tapered down to twin wedding bands at the muzzle which measures .68 smooth bore.
The lock has a partial crown stamped in it with a G and maybe a R or B under it along with a little scroll work along the edges. It has a walnut stock and for $65.00 I had to pick it up. It's in real nice shape and was never fired and looked like it never had a flint installed.
Well the problem is that it won't throw a spark, I've put in five or six good flints, heat treated the frizzen twice, one with oil, the second time with water but it still won't spark. Not even a small ember, nothing, notta, zero sparks with multiple flints.
Any ideas as what to do, the geometry looks fine with the lock with the flint hitting the top third of the frizzen and scraping the face but it won't throw any spark at all.
I'm getting ready to order a Silier large rifle frizzen in the raw and machine it to fit instead of trying to make the original one work which I have my doubts about.
No pictures yet, just got in from the shop.
Thanks