Any interest in these?

[Gmed]

I am making these in my garage...they are made from a 2 inch wooden ball with a flat on the bottom. I drill a hole 3/4" deep the same diameter as most ramrods into the center of the flat. I drill a hole in the side 90 degrees from the hole in the bottom and epoxy/press fit a brass 10-32 threaded insert into this hole for any of your muzzleloader accessories. I can include a short staring jag that is about an inch and a quarter long and will start any bullet down the muzzle to include round balls, pointed bullets or hollow points and will work in either 45 or 50 caliber muzzleloaders. Start the bullet with the short starter, place ram rod over bullet then turn the starter over and place the hole over the ramrod to seat the bullet the remainder of the way onto the powder charge. Saves your palm and gives a larger grip surface than the ramrod itself making it easy to push the bullet down onto the powder. Have made several for friends and seeing if anyone might have interest. Thought I could sell plain with brass insert for your starter for $7.50. If I include an 1 1/2" short starter $10.50. With the short starter, these are small and convenient. Fit right in your jacket pocket.

 

[Rancocas]

I made them with a 2" circle 3/4" thick, instead of a ball. It takes up slightly less room in my bag than does a round one. Short, 3/4" stick and a longer, 3" or 4" stick attached into the narrow side of the wood circle. All wood, no brass. It resembles a lollypop with an extra, short stick. Very easy to make.

However, I no longer use a short starter. Just something less that I don't have to carry. I found that with a coned muzzle I can easily start the patched round ball with only thumb pressure. Ramrod pushes it down the rest of the way.
With a loading block, I just place the block with a patched ball over the muzzle and ram the ball down with the ramrod through the block. I make my .50 caliber loading blocks 3/8" thick so that a patched round ball sticks through it by about 1/8". That makes it easy to center the ball in the rifle muzzle.
For hunting I like a loading block with only 2 or 3 roundballs, but for target practice I use a block with anywhere up to 10 patched balls. I carry my loading blocks on a throng around my neck.
Short starters and loading blocks can be made quite plain, or they can be fancied up with carvings and/or brass or silver wire inlets.

Except for dressing up in colonial attire, I am a strictly traditional muzzleloader. I make my own powderhorns, powder measures, loading blocks, shot pouches, ball bags, another little bag to hold all the necessary ramrod attachments; I even made my own rifle. All of these things can be plain or decorated up to suit yourself.

For me, half the fun of muzzleloading is making my own gear. Next I want to try my hand at making a knife from an old file.