Michael
Elledge
Carronade
My full scale 10 Pounder Parrott Rifle shooting at Liendo,TX. Civil War reenactment.

Videos of Customer's Cannons
Shooting on one of my Custom
Built
Carriages.
All my customer's are welcome to email to me a video of your
cannon shooting and I will place it on my website here for all of
us to enjoy watching.
michael@jmelledge.com
Location- Houston, Texas
Website :  www.jmelledge.com
Phone- 713-249-6020
This naval carriage I custom made for a customers replica Verbruggen barrel that is firing.
This is a You Tube video of a "Brook's USA" 24 Pounder (1" bore)
cannon firing, but "NOT" on a carriage that I built.
My 3/4 scale 1700's Revolutionary War Cannon firing on my
custom made Split Trail Carriage.
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My custom 1/4 scale #2 Field Carriage and Brook's USA Napoleon brass
cannon firing
a black powder charge.  Bore size = 1.032".
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Texas Historical Commission opened their new museum in 2018 at the San Felipe de Austin State
Historic Site, in Sealy, TX.  They commissioned me to make a
Galloper carriage for their
Verbruggen cannon barrel.
 They have an artillery crew that will hold demonstration shootings during
the museums public events.  This video is the first shooting event with their artillery crew that I
took.
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I was contacted by the Texas Navy Association to construct an 1830’s Texas Navy display.  The
location of the display is on board the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, Texas.   It
was to be an 1830’s ship board exhibit complete with a 16’ long hand rail with two gun ports.  
These gun ports sported a matched pair of my concrete cannons mounted on naval carriages complete
with block and tackle rigging.  The display and 1 minute video too can be seen here
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A customer came to me asking if I would be interested in a unique project.
He had a 120 year old bronze bell that came out of a college somewhere in Central Texas.  He
needed a cart or something to use to pull the bell in parades.
I made him my design of a "Bell Limber".
Testimonial
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The "Alamo Museum" commissioned me to build a field carriage for the original
16 pounder cannon barrel that was used at the battle of the Alamo.  A video
was created on the day of our install, 7/23/2019, by the Alamo conservator.
A customer purchased from me a Brooks USA Brass 24 Pounder cannon barrel
on a naval carriage that I made for it.  This barrel is capable of shooting a 1"
ball.  A few months later he sent me this video of it shooting.  I asked him
what he was shooting out of it and he said....... "No ball, about an once of
power and a piece of a hot dog bun for packing." It made a pretty good boom !
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