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Gunsmithing
Would really appreciate some advice for smithing...
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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 1250620" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>Everyone with the notion wants to "chamber their own barrels". I can think of several gunsmithing tasks that require a lot more skill and patience. I had 16yrs experience as a job shop machinist (40hrs a week for 16yrs) before I enrolled in gunsmith school. After I'd made that first rifle stock, by hand from a blank during "Classic Rifle Stock Making", I realized "there are no limits". You were required one,, I made 2. It's a daunting task, makes chambering look like childs' play.......... I 'hooked-up' with a local pawn shop while in school. I always had plenty of work from there. I re-soldered ribs on a couple of SxSs. That involves removing the loose rib, cleaning-up all the old solder and re-laying the rib. Got to work on the lock work on more than a few (L.C. Smiths were cherished in that area), learning how to repair ejectors and time them properly, making leaf springs 'cause ya' couldn't buy them, then (those parts ARE NOT "drop-in") and re-cutting and hardening sears, besides all the 'common' repairs that came from that shop. That kind of work (hand fitting & finishing) makes as much or more than the average chambering job, 'cause any swinging dick can chamber a barrel given enough time, barrel blanks and interdnet........ But they stumble all over themselves with any other lathe/mill work. Learning to hand cut checkering can make you feel like an absolute fool, 'till you learn the 'tricks'. And even then it takes immense concentration (for me, anyway). I won't even work on a modern double action automatic pistol, there's no money in just changing parts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 1250620, member: 24284"] Everyone with the notion wants to "chamber their own barrels". I can think of several gunsmithing tasks that require a lot more skill and patience. I had 16yrs experience as a job shop machinist (40hrs a week for 16yrs) before I enrolled in gunsmith school. After I'd made that first rifle stock, by hand from a blank during "Classic Rifle Stock Making", I realized "there are no limits". You were required one,, I made 2. It's a daunting task, makes chambering look like childs' play.......... I 'hooked-up' with a local pawn shop while in school. I always had plenty of work from there. I re-soldered ribs on a couple of SxSs. That involves removing the loose rib, cleaning-up all the old solder and re-laying the rib. Got to work on the lock work on more than a few (L.C. Smiths were cherished in that area), learning how to repair ejectors and time them properly, making leaf springs 'cause ya' couldn't buy them, then (those parts ARE NOT "drop-in") and re-cutting and hardening sears, besides all the 'common' repairs that came from that shop. That kind of work (hand fitting & finishing) makes as much or more than the average chambering job, 'cause any swinging dick can chamber a barrel given enough time, barrel blanks and interdnet........ But they stumble all over themselves with any other lathe/mill work. Learning to hand cut checkering can make you feel like an absolute fool, 'till you learn the 'tricks'. And even then it takes immense concentration (for me, anyway). I won't even work on a modern double action automatic pistol, there's no money in just changing parts. [/QUOTE]
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