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sbwhart:
I remember one trick the gunsmith chap showed me.
It was measuring your selfe up to get your vice at the correct height for filing, what you did was stand side on to your bench, and you got a buddy to measure the height from the top of the bench to your elbow, you then blocked the vice up so its top was at elbow height, this way you file flat. :thumbup:
Cheers
:wave:
Stew
Alphawolf45:
Stew
I have a couple cnc mills, a pair of manual mills, 3 lathes , surface grinder etc. etc.all rather serious stuff..I got my share of expeditiously helpful motorized machinery but will swear that I believe that the measure of a mans completed work is predicated upon the quality of his abrasives and his file work.... I regret that my eyesight is going bad , I have to get my nose right down nearly touching the workpiece to use a file with some degree of precision. I marvel at pictures showing persons using a file as you describe..Also I got a picture of a lady checkering a gunstock at comfortable arms length,she not hunkered down over it. I wish I could operate that way. I pull a stool up to the vice , sit down to use a file........I set one my manual kneemills up onto a 10 inch high block so I wouldnt have to bend over so far to see the work..see the picture.
Bernd:
Hey Alphawolf45,
Some nice work and equipment you have there. :thumbup:
That six shooter sure has a nice finish on it. :dremel:
When you build your own, do you also make the barrel and rifling or do you purchase them and just build the frame.
I'm also with you 100% on the gumint with gun control. I dispise it and those would force that on us. But lets not turn this thread into a politcal bashing. Much more fun talking about making them. :headbang:
Bernd
Alphawolf45:
--- Quote from: Bernd on January 25, 2009, 10:46:10 AM ---Hey Alphawolf45,
When you build your own, do you also make the barrel and rifling or do you purchase them and just build the frame.
Bernd
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I dont do any rifling .I buy rifled barrel blanks from a number of sources.Then cut it to length , contour it and thread it and chamber it and cut extractor slots and crown it and mount sights on it and mill dovetail slot to affix stock or whatever hangs off the underside..Then polish and blue it..By time I am finished I definately feel like I made the barrel........
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sbwhart:
Hi
Can you expand on the blueing process, its something that may be of use to me.
Cheers
Stew
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