Dwarvern cannons

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Irba, 32nd of Snows Maiden, Year 54

Cobbler first began by sketching the original cannon in three dimensions, and to get more of the mechanics of how the cannon fully operated. I started breaking pieces of the cannon off, to get a look inside. I then put my arm inside, to feel it and know how the inner barrel was crafted. I then started tampering with what seemed like supports on the front and back, to see whether they were necessary, which there were in this design of it, because of how high the barrel was which I noted down in the sketch of the new cannon that I was designing to be smaller and easier for transport. I then removed a wheel and replaced it with a stilt so that I could get a good look at it's shape and materials used in, making it which included iron to hold it firm as it is holding a heavey payload. I then went on to sketch these wheels onto my new design. Now that I had the wheels, I could start designing the support for the cannon barrel, which needed to be smaller but just as efficient as the orginal cannon, so the majority of the supports that I designed were to be under the barrel itself unlike the original one, that had the majority on the sides and very little on the bottom. With my new design of supports for the barrel, I began to craft the base of the cannon. After this, I realised that the cannon was sitting on top very loosely, so to adjust it, I added a strap of stone brick on top to hold it firm in place. Now that I had barrel held onto thet wheels firmly, I couldn't help but feel that the barrel was too weak for our blast's, and for god measure, I smelted an iron ring for the end and blasted it in place making the barrel a lot stronger and less likely to crack upon firing.

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Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.