Don,
What do you mean by "bluprinting" the Navy? Doing this or that to get an exact dimension here and there, as per the originals?
Like you would try to do with a car engine?
I don't think there is such a thing.
For one thing, there was supposed to be a big fire at the Colt factory that destroyed all their paperwork, prints and the like, in the '60's, 1860's, that is, the entire works were supposed to have been destroyed.
The second is that they did not make parts and just slap them together, and they functioned perfectly. There was a heck of a lot of hand fitting to make a smoothly operating revolver from those parts. Smith, Colt, Ruger, anybody else, making a pistol, even today, assembles, stones and fits parts to make a well functioning firearm.
This is one of the arguments that seems to go on with some of the members of different forums, who makes the best functioning gun out of the box?
Pietta makes a good looking, functional, firearm, Uberti may make a better functioning firearm, Taylor's may even make a better functioning firearm, and the defunct Colt Black Powder Group was supposed to have made the BEST functioning firearm from the Uberti parts. The same parts, more hand labor, better artisans, and a way higher price, to put the same pieces into the same box, with a different name inscribed on it.
Still Uberti produced parts, just put together and fit and finished differently/better. Plus, Colt blueing.. Automatically worth 300 bucks more, at least.
Forget "blueprinting", you won't find them, they won't be fit and finished the way you think they will be.
Cheers,
George
I might have more to say on this, if you want to keep it up.
