In The Gun, or a Treatise on the Various Descriptions of Small Fire-Arms, Greener described 9 different gun barrels at that time, and in general was extremely critical of the quality of British gun barrels being produced:
1. Damascus from only two sources: Mr Clive of Birmingham and George Adams of Wednesbury
2. Wire-Twist Iron
3. Stub-Twist Iron or Stub Damascus. Made from horse-nail stubs (iron) mixed with coach spring steel, fused into a "bloom of iron", then hammer forged into rods, rolled into threads, which were then wrapped around a mandrel and welded.
4. Mr Wiswoulds Iron Barrels and a similar product called Silver Steel. These are described as ¾ steel and ¼ iron and from the description may be Two Rod Laminated Steel
5. Charcoal Iron (without steel) – inferior to Stub-Twist
6. Threepenny Skelp Iron
7. Twopenny/Wednesbury Skelp
8. Sham Damn Skelp which apparently was stained to look like Wire-Twist
9. Swaff Iron Forging made up from small scrapes of lockplates and gunscrews
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