Tutorial: How to make a smoothbore ball rolling fixture for files

[Maillemaker]

I made myself a fixture for holding a file for rolling smoothbore ammunition between files. Rather than use farrier's files, which are expensive, I used a cheap set of heavy duty files from Harbor Freight for $12.

I made a how-to article on how to make the fixture out of a scrap piece of wood and the files here:

http://4thla.weebly.com/ball-rolling-fixture.html

Steve

[tmont]

Well done, Steve! Good solution to that problem.
Tom

[Eggman]

Not to commit heresy but I've gotten very good results just using common wood rasps. Balls load snug from start to finish (.678 ball from Lyman mould in standard Armi Sport 1842).