Our firearms are created through a combination of state of the art technology and old-fashioned craftsmanship.
   Some of our cannon are molded from originals. Some are made from scratch.The mold is then worked in two halves, each half being lined with layers of fiberglass mat and spread with gel-coat. When set, the halves are placed together and the seams bonded with fiberglass mat. With larger pieces, such as the Rodman, this actually requires that the technician squeeze inside the body of the gun. Once the cannon is released from the mold the finish work is crafted by hand. This demands many hours of skilled and careful labor to ensure that the gun is authentic to the smallest detail.
The finished product is of museum quality appearance. They resist weather and corrosion. Are very durable with a very long life-span, and may be replicated quickly and very affordably.

The Rodman, now ready for the last of the detail work before packing and shipping to its final destination.

Since the 1950s fiberglass has successfully been used in a wide variety of applications - automobiles, airplanes, artificial limbs; chemical, metallurgical, textile and light industry; instrument manufacture, building materials and insulation. Our cannons are molded from glass fiber reinforcement that is then saturated with resin and allowed to cure. A typical epoxy resin has a tensile strength below 10,000psi, but when reinforced with glass fiber the resulting composite can have strength much greater. This equals high strength for relatively low weight.

Tailorability is a further advantage of fiberglass. As opposed to metal casting, reinforcement can be built up in any direction, allowing for detail work to be accomplished after release from the mold. The materials and equipment used for manufacture facilitate lower production costs, in spite of the many hours of detail work that are sometimes required in the hand finishing stages.