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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 1252620" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>I guess a guy could watch enough YouTube videos, ask enough questions on interdnet forums and read a book or two and eventually get it done. Without basic machining 'skills' and understanding,, it'd sure be a lot easier IF you had some "in person" instruction. Might consider taking some NRA Summer Gunsmithing courses during/if you have some vacation time. Learning on your own sure can develop a bunch of bad habits and form a lot of unfounded conclusions. But, think about this, it will take, at bare minimum, $5000 to buy a cheap lathe and the required tooling. At an average of, say,,, $275 for a gunsmith to do the work for you, you could have had 18 barrels professionally thread, chambered, crowned and fit to your action. Any way you look at it, you still will have to buy the blank, and regardless of popular opinion gunsmiths don't get huge discounts on barrel blanks. That initial $5000 investment just calls for more and more $$$$$ as time goes on. Cost effective? No...... I had 16yrs experience as a job shop machinist before I attended gunsmithing school. I watched guys who had no experience be scared of the metal cutting band saw and spend a whole class period, even after being shown and instructed repeatedly, trying to dial in a piece of bar stock in a 4 jaw chuck. There were some who could just never grasp the concepts. Big or small, machine tools demand an enormous amount of respect. If you've got the spare change to set yourself up, go for it. If it doesn't work out for you there will be many more willing to buy your lathe and tooling so they can give it a try, themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 1252620, member: 24284"] I guess a guy could watch enough YouTube videos, ask enough questions on interdnet forums and read a book or two and eventually get it done. Without basic machining 'skills' and understanding,, it'd sure be a lot easier IF you had some "in person" instruction. Might consider taking some NRA Summer Gunsmithing courses during/if you have some vacation time. Learning on your own sure can develop a bunch of bad habits and form a lot of unfounded conclusions. But, think about this, it will take, at bare minimum, $5000 to buy a cheap lathe and the required tooling. At an average of, say,,, $275 for a gunsmith to do the work for you, you could have had 18 barrels professionally thread, chambered, crowned and fit to your action. Any way you look at it, you still will have to buy the blank, and regardless of popular opinion gunsmiths don't get huge discounts on barrel blanks. That initial $5000 investment just calls for more and more $$$$$ as time goes on. Cost effective? No...... I had 16yrs experience as a job shop machinist before I attended gunsmithing school. I watched guys who had no experience be scared of the metal cutting band saw and spend a whole class period, even after being shown and instructed repeatedly, trying to dial in a piece of bar stock in a 4 jaw chuck. There were some who could just never grasp the concepts. Big or small, machine tools demand an enormous amount of respect. If you've got the spare change to set yourself up, go for it. If it doesn't work out for you there will be many more willing to buy your lathe and tooling so they can give it a try, themselves. [/QUOTE]
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