John Griffiths Vintage Air Pistol repro's based on unrealised airgun patents by Webley, Haenel etc.
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- The author of ‘The Encyclopaedia of Spring Air Pistols’ John Griffiths shows us the reproduction non-commercialised air pistols he made, based on patent drawings from Webley, Lincoln Jeffries, Haenel and others.
Pistols in order:
The Webley Whiting ( W.J. Whiting/Webley 1910)
Twist -grip (F.Clarke, J.W. Fearn and D.V.Johnstone, 1923 )
Lincoln Jeffries overlever (L.P. Jeffries, 1926 )
Hill two-stage pistol (A. H. Hill 1933)
Thunderbolt Senior ( Frank Clarke Lead Products/ W.J. Walker, 1945 )
Webley Mercury (H.F. Resuggan/Webley, 1981)
Haenel Model 250 repeater (E. Leyh / ETW Suhl, 1954)
As always a big thank you to John Griffiths for continuing to contribute his knowledge and enthusiasm to the channel.
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A skilled engineer / machinist who's had the patience & skill to remanufacture lost designs from the past . Brilliant ! . Thanks .
Nicely put… I think I’ll Nick that as a description of this video, cheers!
@@dkjngl1 That's Great by Me , if it helps You, Even better !
You have done an Amazing job making those pistols!!!!!! I wish I had your talent !!! Thanks for sharing your guns with us
You have great skills sir. Very well done, respect! 👍👌
Simply amazing! Great thanks!
Great video, awesome work!
Although it doesn't have much power, I really love the design and the look of the pistol with the long barrel.
Impressive workmanship.
Haven't watched the whole video yet but am enjoying it immensely. Great idea to show case these. Fantastic work to recreate these designs. 👍
Beautiful work sir
Absolutely riveting!
Cheers Trev
Hi Matt, thanks for these awesome videos, congratulations for your work. Cheers
Wow! You have quite a talent. My favorite is the repeating pistol.
what fun! thank you
Very enjoyable, excellent work on the manufacture, thanks
My kind of video, Amazing works of Art
great to see an acvoke pistol, i was given one 40 years ago and it still shoots really well
Glad to hear it, they are built to last!
This is awesome! amazing work! Thanks for the video
Inspirational. Patent drawings are a long way from what a machinist needs to get going. Much work interpreting and problem-solving before anything moves. Then begins the large number of machining processes involved- each requiring careful setting. No shortcuts. No CNC. Proper 'old-school'. Spins me out just the thought of it!...Great work John! - these and the book! Thanks so much Matt for the presentation- Fabulous close-ups at the end btw! :-)
The work John has put into these is amazing, his written accounts of exactly how he worked it all out and made them work is shows his extreme patience. Glad we managed to get them on film. Cheers, Matt
superb , thanks for sharing that
Glad you enjoyed it. John is a bit of a genius
Fantastic work
Fantastic video showcasing the immensely talented John Griffiths. I ordered his book last week and cannot wait to read it.
Many thanks, PTDunk.
We’re very fortunate to have got these pistols on film, and his new book is awesome. Cheers
This is just simply incredible! As a partial professional and mostly hobby machinist and spring 25:56 air gun enthusiast I just can’t quite express my pleasure and enjoyment of this video. If I could subscribe more than one time I most certainly would. Thank you for sharing this incredible content!
Thank you
Matt, thanks for bringing us Johns amazing collection of hand built prototypes in such a quality production. 👍 Of all Johns pistols my vote goes to the Haenel 55R as the one I would most like to own. Excellent work John, well done.
Thanks Mark, he’s a genius, glad I could help share it. Twist grip was the most intriguing, great to cock and shoot. Got to shoot the Webley Mercury too as it was one of my favourites. Great stuff
Absolutely fascinating work on those thanks for the video
Thanks you
Cool collection. Can't believe you made some of them guns, clever dude.
Guest presenter John Griffiths made all of them!
He definitely is a very clever dude.
Cheers mate 😊
wow what a great video i wish i had the skill to make some of these. great stuff
Brilliant in every way! My dad bought me a new Hyscore when I was12 years old, I still have it in my collection! I always thought what a superb design compared to what was out there at the time.
I have a U.K. Hyscore and I agree, what an ingenious design. They shoot well too! Cheers
Brilliant!!
fantastic
You did a terrific job building air pistols from those old patents, especially that first Webley air pistol!
It has a resemblance to the first Webley semi automatic pistols made around WW1.
Speaking in John’s behalf, if you look up ‘Webley & Scott 1911 target pistol’ you’ll see the long barrelled automatic target pistol the Webley Whiting air pistol was based on. Check out the vid on his Gallery pistols we made. They are my favourites. Cheers
Great video Matt! Do more videos on John Griffiths,he is so interesting. Keep up the good videos!
Thanks, I agree and would love to but it was quite a mission to make these videos as John lives at the other side of the country. Hopefully one day. Cheers, Matt
Love the Wallace and Gromit of the design. Well done in bringing them to life. Easy to see how the Acvoke was a success and the others never made production.
The most talented gunsmith in the world in my opinion. You should be making and selling these, I know it's a labour of love but you'd soon be a gunsmith God in everyone's eyes. Great video by the way.
I agree the oldies are the best made pistols, I own many.
Well now. There's a book i need!
Bah.. antiguidades é muito interessante mesmo ❤.
Very interesting video. It would be very enjoyable to visit John Griffiths workshop and see it in operation. Perhaps you can put a video together
on him and his shop. Thanks very much for your and John's efforts. Stay healthy my friends!
Hi Ron, John isn’t doing any projects at the moment, but he did take loads of photos of the process involved in making some of the pistols. Maybe I could put together a timeline montage of the construction of one of the pistols if you think it would be of interest? Cheers, Matt
Fascinating video, have watched twice. You mentioned possibility of timeline photos showing construction processes involved, that would be fantastic. Am new to all this and would love to have some idea of the processes involved. Thanks for posting 👍👍
Thanks for your comment, I’m hoping to put something together showing how he made them, only as a photo montage as John took lots of pictures showing the construction process. …maybe as a winter project when I can’t get out to shoot. Thanks, Matt
My 1917 BSA Lincoln Standard still flattens pellets on my bell target. Rebuilt had to get firearms lic as it hit 750fps! in 177. Is the Hy score 400fps?
The 'spiral' action is interesting. Technically, one could acheive the same with a screw thread but would need a lot of turns to cock the spring! Anyway, this is high-tech compared to the push-in pistols with which you can't hit an elephant at three feet!
I am quite surprised that no one has put together a pro documentary film about John Griffifths work making unrealised airgun patents and his book about air pistols. I would guess there is an audience for a film like this all around the world! There are so many airgun enthusiasts. Let this be food for thought for anybody with a PRO background. What was John's type of work? A machinist or ?
This is the best documentation of these air pistols we’re going to get, so spread the word! John is a scientific academic and does these types of projects as a hobby.
Power maybe low but the fun factor looks awsome
Great pistols, twist grip was my favourite. Johns home made Gallery pistols vid coming at Christmas, watch this space
I should point out that there are two John Griffiths here, and this John Griffiths as ,the maker of the guns, can confirm that they are good fun for a bit of indoor challenge shooting. 😊
would love to purchase the Arther hill Birmingham repro, absolutely brilliant. What it lacks in ease of use in loading, It makes up for in sheer beauty. Do you know if any of these are for sale?
I wish! No…I believe John has made them as personal projects and they are not for sale. I’d love to own one of the Gallery pistols he made featured in my other video of his work.
Well made guns but how did you black the steel work
The guns were blacked by the hot alkali salt method, which has been the gun industry standard method since the 1940's. It is not to be recommended for the amateur gunsmith unless he is comfortable working with dangerous chemicals, as it uses a concentrated solution of caustic soda at 140 degrees C. Apart from that, it yields excellent results.
Thanks John
Can i buy the book pdf ?
No pdf no.
There is a new updated version by the same author that is twice as big and full colour. Available here:
www.proteksupplies.co.uk/index.html
Very nice video