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<blockquote data-quote="Coyboy" data-source="post: 148456" data-attributes="member: 3733"><p>Jerry, I attended the NRA sponsored gunsmithing classes at Trinidad last year. They have week long classes that cover different areas of smithing. Examples, gun repair, jigs and fixtures, basic machining, adv machining/barrel fitting, blueprinting, match ar15, double shotguns, and more. Each class is a week long 40hours, The cost is 300 a week and 100 to stay in the dorms. Call Anthony Chavez in the gunsmithing dept. he will send out the class schedule, they start in June.</p><p></p><p>If your going into the metal working side of gunsmithing, lathe/mill work. I would suggest you attend a machine tool class at a local tech. This will pay off more than anything. It will teach you a good understanding of metal working and machineing, tolerences and measuring </p><p>equipment, and above all else attention to detail. It will also show if your up to the task skill wise. </p><p></p><p>I attended a Tech at home for the first year to learn all the manual machines, and skipped the second year which was cnc dosen't mean I can't go back someday.</p><p></p><p>Some of the students at Trinidad had never run a lathe and after 2 weeks had barrels fitted to actions. Some of which ended up as 20" tubes, and not by choice. So advance skills in machining help significantlly.</p><p></p><p>As far as starting a buisness, that is something you should decide after some experience. If you KNOW your work is first class, and you have the means(money) to get it started, go for it. Definatly have another income when you start, the first year could be very rockey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coyboy, post: 148456, member: 3733"] Jerry, I attended the NRA sponsored gunsmithing classes at Trinidad last year. They have week long classes that cover different areas of smithing. Examples, gun repair, jigs and fixtures, basic machining, adv machining/barrel fitting, blueprinting, match ar15, double shotguns, and more. Each class is a week long 40hours, The cost is 300 a week and 100 to stay in the dorms. Call Anthony Chavez in the gunsmithing dept. he will send out the class schedule, they start in June. If your going into the metal working side of gunsmithing, lathe/mill work. I would suggest you attend a machine tool class at a local tech. This will pay off more than anything. It will teach you a good understanding of metal working and machineing, tolerences and measuring equipment, and above all else attention to detail. It will also show if your up to the task skill wise. I attended a Tech at home for the first year to learn all the manual machines, and skipped the second year which was cnc dosen't mean I can't go back someday. Some of the students at Trinidad had never run a lathe and after 2 weeks had barrels fitted to actions. Some of which ended up as 20" tubes, and not by choice. So advance skills in machining help significantlly. As far as starting a buisness, that is something you should decide after some experience. If you KNOW your work is first class, and you have the means(money) to get it started, go for it. Definatly have another income when you start, the first year could be very rockey. [/QUOTE]
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