Lars's last project.

About 2 months ago Lars emailed me to discuss his latest project. It was the repair of a Finnish Kakola where one side had a broken spring. It was cleanly snapped near the hole. Lars had told me that he had contacted two engineering companies who had quoted $200 in one instance and another estimated about $300. Lars was looking to find an alternative.  Within the hour I made a spring  and had it ready to mail to Lars in the morning. I sent the spring off but didn't tel Lars as he got very frustrated with Norpost and how slow they were to deliver. He didn't need the extra grief. About 18 days later the spring did arrive but unfortunately the size of the hole was too small and the wall to thin to be drilled to the required size. Lars was disappointed. Lars then remembered  another engineer in Sweden that he had used years before. He was able to get a spring
made. Lars was thrilled. The last I heard was another friend was going to reassemble to cuff. That was about a week before my last email  to ask how Lars was, Lars replied,
 "i'm extremely tired so i'm coming back to you during the weekend." (sic) That was on the 18th. I replied "write when you can" . Just two weeks later , we all heard the bad news.  I would assume that cuff would have been compted by now and back in the collection. Lars was very proud of Finnish workmanship so I add the photos of his cuff to further the knowledge of collectors as I suspect Lars himself would do.

We discussed with Lars about the spring problem and I suggested to take contact to local gunsmith. One Finnish gunsmith modified spring to my Kakola cuffs from Colt Single Action Army (SAA) spring. But I think that Lars did not have enough time to finish project. That pair is very rare with triangle key, I sold that pair to Lars few years ago and at June Lars said that it should have been repaired earlier. 

Nice cuffs and nice key done too!

Very interesting, also for the Kakola I'm trying to restore at the moment.
Fun fact, the company Stabila (on the meter scale) is from my 5000-people hometown.

Do Kakolas sometimes have different mechanisms?

KruegerKuffs wrote: ↑

Sep 03, 2023

Very interesting, also for the Kakola I'm trying to restore at the moment.
Fun fact, the company Stabila (on the meter scale) is from my 5000-people hometown.

Do Kakolas sometimes have different mechanisms?

At least three different mechanisms. Triangle key is as pics on this topic and with key mechamism there is at least two different depending where the teeth are on the bow (side or top).

Lars actually showed me photos of that cuff and discussed its repairs with me. Ron J