Hand Cannon Project - Help w/ Stock?

[Matchlock]

Originally Posted by katana

Welcome to the forum Mr Scratch ,

Micheal....Would stocks on hand gonnes be 'standardised' I wonder....or, if fairly standard did individuals modify to suit their needs ? If this is the case...perhaps it gives Mr Scratch more 'flexibility' in designing/making a stock to suit the barrel ?

Kind Regards David

Hi David,

Thank you so much.

And: stocks seem to have not been standardized before ca. the mid-16th century in Central and Northern Europe. On the other hand, very few of them have actually survived 600 years but the barrels were restocked again and again in arsenals. Telling from a copule of actually existing items, plus, and especially, the very scarce earliest original sources of illustration we know, I dare say that variations were quite common.

Best,
Michael