vertically grooved frizzen

[Adam Helmer]

steven,

Welcome to the Forum. You pose an interesting question about grooved frizzens. I never thought about verticle grooves and in the 200 +/- years of flintlock use in Europe and the colonies, I never read anything about such a practice. I do polish my curved frizzens with crocus cloth now and then to remove horizonal flint-induced grooves to prolong flint "life."

Off hand, it seems to me any grooves in the frizzen would wear away the flint faster than a smooth frizzen. Maybe some of our posters have a clue?

Adam