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Lathe and Mill Recomendations??
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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 1160310" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>You made my point for me! Go to school to become a machinist, not a gunsmith. With the business model you propose he'll have no need to learn the finer points of metal finishing (spraying on CerrCoat doesn't count) , glass bedding, fitting a new butt stock to replace a broken one, install an oversized hand and time a S&W, tune-up an A-5 for the bird hunter, fit a new firing pin and disc to that AyA, re-cut the sear notch on that 1885 hammer and reharden it, or fit and finish a fine piece of English Walnut, let alone checker it . Being a gunsmith and being a machinist are two different things. Few, if any, leave an instructional institution with everything they need to start out at the "top". Making actions and other 'parts' and supporting $100,000 worth of machinery and tooling (that's 'tool room',, not production), he'd have to be 'right </p><p>up there'. <strong><em>After</em></strong> graduation is when the <em>real</em> learning begins, just ask any good lawyer, welder, doctor, diesel mechanic or anyone else that 'schooled' to learn a trade. If you applied yourself you learned the basics, but all those little problems that crop up along the way are yours to figure out!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 1160310, member: 24284"] You made my point for me! Go to school to become a machinist, not a gunsmith. With the business model you propose he'll have no need to learn the finer points of metal finishing (spraying on CerrCoat doesn't count) , glass bedding, fitting a new butt stock to replace a broken one, install an oversized hand and time a S&W, tune-up an A-5 for the bird hunter, fit a new firing pin and disc to that AyA, re-cut the sear notch on that 1885 hammer and reharden it, or fit and finish a fine piece of English Walnut, let alone checker it . Being a gunsmith and being a machinist are two different things. Few, if any, leave an instructional institution with everything they need to start out at the "top". Making actions and other 'parts' and supporting $100,000 worth of machinery and tooling (that's 'tool room',, not production), he'd have to be 'right up there'. [B][I]After[/I][/B] graduation is when the [I]real[/I] learning begins, just ask any good lawyer, welder, doctor, diesel mechanic or anyone else that 'schooled' to learn a trade. If you applied yourself you learned the basics, but all those little problems that crop up along the way are yours to figure out! [/QUOTE]
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