I run a machine & blacksmiths shop in Canaan, NH. Using this to document some of the cooler stuff I get to do and share some living history of historic manufacturing methods. I do a lot of tool and die work, equipment repair, and other oddball one off stuff. I also will restore, customize, and repair firearms as well.
@randallsemrau7845 glad I could help! In all honesty I got tired if dealing with this kind of issue and just bought a glacern vise ~5 weeks after this video. You still need some tricks but they are night and day better than the old bridgeports.
Whee! My pumpgun made it into a video! It really is a pain to try and take pictures and video of being so long lol. I really am happy with this gun. Thank you again, and I hope I can bring more work to your shop in the future.
@HiganbanaRifleman thank you. It was a pleasure doing business with you as well. I certainly look forward to seeing you again. And that was a pretty nice survivor gun, given current i expect anything of that generation to continue to appreciate.
@@seldendaniel8819 UPS usually can handle shipping guns packed far worse than this. With the degree of impact I'd think even a hard case may have had issues.
@spinesales fortunately I only ever need to swap out the boring bars with any regularity. The nice thing about more or less only doing rifle barrel work you need very few lathe tools!
@spinesales thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed. Re watching this I see some of the confusion folks are having & I think I will take the time to do a better explanation with diagrams.
That's not an unreasonable question, but the what doesn't really matter in machining. You can see the setup in the mill and work it out (assuming you recognize the part). Ultimately, context is irrelevant to how & what a bottoming drill is used. You use it the same regardless of what you are doing. You use it when you need a fairly inprecise flat bottom hole quickly. Most of my videos on machining skip the what and focus on the why & how. The 'what' is up to you to apply your knowledge on. This was intended to link from the below video, but I forgot to update the descriptions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P8hKGFmIU54.htmlsi=COxopBWOvPTRwqdE
Well I opened this expecting to learn something. And I did. Don't waste your time. Between the ums ahs and other gabbling, I don't even know what the phuq he's trying to fix.
@reallydonotdo that's a good thing to point out. So I learned to do it this way. Tried using the quill mic a little bit and just found this method to be easier and more convenient than spinning the depth stop around and moving it. It's never the right spot when you need it!
At my work they resharpen everything they can. Seems like most of the 1/2" endmills are like .467 or something silly like that, you never know till you measure them. Of course we have a whole tool room.
@@HiganbanaRifleman I sharpen the ends of my mills but haven't bothered setting up for sharpening the sides. It's not worth it when they are so cheap and last so long in manual applications.
Nice looking shop, Moose. I envy your floor-space and work stations. lol btw, I'm impressed with your taste & style when it comes to rifles, not to mention the results of your work.
@johncmitchell4941 thank you, that's quite the compliment. I've improved dramatically since starting years ago. I carved my first gun stock in my lap. For how small my shop is, it's a really great setup. It was a ton of work building the benches and getting everything ready. Eventually, I will get another 250-300 square feet so I can separate my grinding and sanding, but that's not anytime soon. Thanks for watching!
Seeing as how you are checkering ,i guess your doing a lot of gun stocks 🤔 ? Lovely bit of work , my father-in-law ( now passed god bless him ) worked for Purdy in London he was a master gunsmith. I had several visits to the workshop the guy's doing the stocks and stock plates we're just brilliant, and all of them had glasses like milk bottle bottoms having spent many many years checking and engraving stock plates. He was presented with a hip flask, i made him a display stand from rosewood, lot's of checkering of course 😉 but, i did it all with a very fine triangle file. Tool me a while but the end result was well worth it. Cheers Les. ( uk ) Hopefully you will show some more of your work.
@lesliecrowther7004 I do a few stocks now and then, but I dare say, I'm not as good as those guys from Purdy or H&H. They were in a league of their own. I have a few photos of my work on my Facebook facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084567378016&mibextid=ZbWKwL And my website: www.moosesgunsmithing.com/
I stopped taking you seriously when you said striker fire made hammer fire obsolete. there is not a single person shooting 25 or 50 meter bullseye that would say that *any* striker fire pistol is better then a hammer pistol. P10 trigger is better then glock triggers but still worse then a PDP wich is lightyears behind even a basic Shadow2 or TS2 pistol, or 1911 for that matter. Sure, for self defence and military use striker fire is fine, but for any serious competitor they lack severely in trigger quality. The end all be all of hammer fired pistols are the original nehausen sig p210, if you tried them you will know how bad striker fire pistols really are.
@isaiahcooper3038 if you can find an M76 parts kit, yes. Part of what makes this job hard was the complete lack of parts availability. I had to get really creative modifying the parts. Even bullet guides are extremely scare.
There is something really fun about watching an artist work. I wouldn’t mind seeing some more videos where you go into the specific details of the work, and maybe get some close up shots, different camera angles and whatnot. Like a whole documentary sort of thing. I’m sure it would be a pain and somewhat get in the way of your work though, and it’s not what people are paying you to do.
@HiganbanaRifleman I try to, but honestly, I've been letting myself get behind shooting videos. I have a couple of videos coming up on dealing with some drill and tap jobs I've done. Not on the woodwork, but interesting nonetheless.
I wanted a Deckel FP1 for my home shop. I had a Millrite MVN at the time, and I never really loved that machine. I'd found a Deckel nearby for a very good price, but it was a bare bones machine. Didn't even have a vertical head with it. But i made a deal with the seller, and was going to pick it up the next day. I called my brother, who owned a machine shop in Portland, and he talked me out of buying it. He said I'd go broke equipping it, and that a Bridgeport was just as versatile, and easier to.use and set up. I passed on the Deckel, and kicked myself for the next few years. And then I found a nice, nice, step pulley J head that had my name on it. I sold my Millrite for more than I paid for the Bridgeport, which made my wife happy. If the Bport was made in Germany or Switzerland, people would think it was the greatest milling machine ever made. And it might be. There's a reason its the most cloned milling machine in history. Its the Swiss army knife of machine tools. Its extremely user friendly in every way.
@vandalsgarage the J heads are extremely versatile machines. I would prefer a deckel for some more precise work though. The ram and knee arrangement lends itself to being more precise and far more rigid. But given I mostly use my machine as a glorified drill press most of the time it kind of doesn't matter. They are still plenty accurate for most things.
I concur. I like my full size Rock Island so much I bought the compact. Great shooters. I never thought I'd buy a 1911 that didn't say COLT on the side, but the Rocks have been great guns and well worth the investment. My only issue on the full size were sharp edges on the grip safety tang and trigger. They were sharp enough to cut my hand during recoil. I sent it back and they rounded them off and got it back to me within three weeks. I've been very pleased and look forward to buying another.
@briandrake5464 I've found them to be excellent handguns as well, and we also are supporting an allied nation when we buy one. Armscor is one of my recommendations for budget friendly firearms. I've found them to be better than most of the later colt guns I've worked on when it comes to consistency and reliability.
@@arturhakobyan6850 I'm not aware of any single phase motors like this surviving inverter duty. Frankly in the years I've had this ive never felt like it needed variable speed.
@SkipsGunz it could be a bunch of things. I'd hose the ram down with penetrating oil first, then try to move it in and out to break it free (be careful with this so you don't hurt yourself). If that doesn't help WITH THE CLAMPING BOLTS TIGHT, remove the worm gear & cover and see if something is broken inside. With the clamping bolts loose and the cover removed, nothing will be holding the head upright. It's probably just rust from sitting.
@RustyInventions-wz6ir what works better if you need a bit more precision is a more sensitive and easy to read indicator combined with a sine bar. This works to within about 15-30 minutes. A sine bare can get you within 1 or 2 minutes, sometimes better.
Popped in Abe's to see this today, was kinda surreal to see something from the internet in real life. Rifle looked and felt okay, but honestly It seemed a little wacky to me. The stock was easily one of the nicest rifle stocks I have ever seen. However, the action was just okay, it wasn't super smooth like a Tikka but not a bear to force around like a garbage rod, just felt kinda meh. I think if the bluing was more polished or had more depth or something it would have more character to it and fit the stock better, but I'm not sure, I'm not that kind of steelworker. I really don't know much about that kind of finishing at all. Just seemed kinda boring. I just feel like the action didn't deserve that nice of a stock I guess. Just my taste I suppose. I'm pretty sure I would want something else for the action. For slings, I would go with QD sockets personally, might be an interesting option to advertise. Hell, I might have to ask you to make a new stock for my M1 with those and a rubber butt pad, once I get around to that project. Something basic with a more plain piece of walnut to match the forend stocks. Too many things to do first though. Gotta build up the savings first.
Thank you for supporting our local businesses. We all appreciate it! If that rifle isn't to your taste, we have a few pages of options (there is a physical copy available at Abe's) for you to choose from. The whole point of this project is to give customers like you the ability to pick and choose what they want in their guns. A semi gloss blued finish like that rifle has been my most popular bluing choice for most customers, and you are actually the first person to say it wasn't a deep color. One of the benefits of the semi gloss is that it tends to wear better with time when used hunting or shot regularly as compared to the higher gloss finishes. Scratches are not as immediately obvious (something that really matters for a floor model gun!). Also, the style sling stud chosen is compatible with the standard uncle mikes style of sling QDs and the Harris and magpul sling stud qd bipod I have tested it with. The inletted style sling swivel is more popular on higher end rifles, for example, some of the factory pre-64 winchester 70s through the winchester custom shop. The action chosen for that rifle, howa 1500, is one of the strongest 2 lug designs available right now. They are popular in the PRS and F class shooting circuits as they have very consistent quality control and are easy to build accurately. Due to the bolt design you feel the cocking action more so than on others, but it is a very easy tool-less disassembly for cleaning. In my career as a gunsmith, I have never once had a howa 1500 or weatherby vanguard show up with broken parts.
You do see some odd things now and then, don't you? With the amount of lead, cobalt, etc I get exposed to I've taken to wearing gloves whenever I'm working with chemicals.
It's not particularly well known as it's fairly niche. I'm an odd shop in that I bothered to buy a machine to do it even when it isn't my primary business. Most people with this equipment work business to business and are very specialized in this area (stock making).
I am a former competition trap shooter. High dollar custom made to fit stocks is a very big part of trap shooting. Very few competitive shooters use off the shelf stocks. I know hand checkering in itself is a very limited and specialized part of it. I bet you love that Foredom. They are one of the best rotary tools.
@grntitan1 a lot of rifle shooters are the same way. I don't work on many high end shotguns, but they show up time to time. The stocks on them are a different beast compared to a rifle stock. They are simultaneously much easier to work with and far more complex with the fitting to the shooter.
@grntitan1 and yes, my foredom is a slick machine. It needs a longer drive shaft on it but it is a huge increase in productivity over a dremel or working solely by hand.
So a 50-75 year old vise has about 0.001 inch more than deflection than a brand new one? Let your grandchildren do a deflection test on your new vise in about 60 or so years and see if the new one can hold those tolerances 🙁.
