Cut Riflng on HAAS TL 2 

One day, I'm going to win the lottery and set up a home machine shop. I hope by then, you have patented this and are selling your tech to the public. I've watched many videos of the different rifling processes and this is absolutely phenomenonal ‼️ I would do this in a heartbeat if I could. Thank you so much ‼️

Precision is a drug you can`t quench. You can only be satisfied knowing you did your best.

People that love dogs are my kind of people!

It's all impressive, but the automatic cutter adjustment is very clever! Kudos!

He who knows his art explains it to the point that at the end, all questions are answered without being asked! Excellent presentation.

As a guy that ran CNC lathes for almost 20 yrs, I found this very ingenious. Well done, sir. Thanks for posting this.

Awesome modern technology take on an old process...well done!

Impressed. You have given away secretes.

Very interesting video. I have a good friend who started making muzzleloaders as a teen in the 1940s (hobby only, not commercially). At the time there were no parts suppliers so he repurposed locks and trigger sets from junk rifles and made his own barrels and stocks. I'm going to show him this video the next time that I visit him. Using books from the library for reference he made a manual rifling jig like the ones used in the late 1700s/ early 1800s. It takes about 300 passes per groove; six grooves total so 32 passes is a great improvement. I am fortunate to have one of his rifles and it is a tack driver.

Really nice you have figured that all out as a small company. Congrats on such fine work.

As a professional quarter back arm chair critic, I say....."outstanding work!"

Thanks Jim, that's very ingenious what you've designed there. Thank you for sharing.

I liked the slow pace of the video and how all operation was explained in details, no rush. Good job!!

You really nailed that rifling process using the CNC lathe. I’m a hobby machinist and have seen the single point rifling machines, located North of Milwaukee.. They pretty much do the same process. I learned machining by watching YT video’s. 👍

That adjustment method is very clever, very cool ! 26:40

Your ingenuity and expertise is remarkable and your compassion with Little Dog shows. You would make a great employer or friend. I'm 83 not looking for job. Just totally impressed by you and your presentation. Bless you young man!

It's great to know when I go to the woods with my Southern mountain rifle to deerhunt. It was made with quality machinery that I can count love your videals. They're very interesting. I ordered a Southern mountain rifle in 45 caliber, and 2024 cant wait to get it. Thanks again.

I like how the cutter depth isn’t on its own axis, but is still controlled automatically

Awesome to see the growth of your company. Love to see anything in metal being manufactured

Great design and process, well thought out down to the smallest detail, very clean. Gerrit

Very clever process you created, I'm impressed. It's great that with that lathe you have control over the C axis. I had no idea that was a feature on that model lathe. Thanks for sharing and posting the video.

This world would be a worse place without our puppies. What a sweet kiddo.

I was a toolmaker for 20 yrs and as such I’m impressed as hell . I did most of my work on conventional machines .I would have done things like making the rifling cutter . I have even setup and run gun drilling machines . I enjoyed this presentation immensely. Keep up the good work. Your attention to detail is the reason I ordered one of your kits . I knew it would be done right .

Thank you for explaining comprehensively and showing the whole process. It is very interesting.

Absolutely brilliant process and a great presentation. Thank you for sharing your craft.

Greetings Jim, Dave P here. A modern Innovative approach to a centuries old process, good on ye sir. Very interesting video demonstration to boot, enjoyed it. I hope your family, and business, are fairing well during this world wide pandemic.

That sold me Jim. I'll be talking with you soon. Thanks for sharing 👍

Wow, this is the most perfect river knife I have ever seen. I really want this set of knife drawings to complete my toy.

This falls back to a design I saw in print that Pope used 50 - 60 years ago - but your re-engineering is just plain fantastic. I have an old rifle - and the only repair - is to roll the barrel from 0.312 to a standard 0.358 rifling. Thank you Sir - cheers

Very impressive what you have been able to come up with. Thank you for sharing!

Fantastic explanation and design for the cutter thanks for the video 🤠👍

Thanks for verifying ,what I've never had tools to implement. Bless your all.

As a retired toolmaker, I say EXCELLENT !

Very interesting video! Thank you for sharing it!

Very impressive that you doped this out yourselves!

man that was amazing how you manufactured the cutter in house, good stuff and an enjoyable process to watch too, thanks

that is indeed clever... fantastic bit of work; thanks for sharing it.

Awesome designed cutter. Kudos to to you sir.

Great work. Magnificent design and toolmaking. Does make one appreciate the work done in the past in designing such a machine to work entirely mechanically - and to do all the design on a drawing board and notepad!

Best video on how rifling is done.

Morning from NZ,well worth the coffee and the growling from the wife.

outstanding work.

Fascinating solution!

Brilliant bloody brilliant.....

Very impressive technology and video.

These types of videos helps prove how advanced my rifling knowledge and methods are.

very nicely presented video and very informative

Wow. I just received a 1943 9" South Bend lathe with a 4.5' bed that my grandfather used to make barrels on. Huge difference from then and now. I also received a ton of tools and bits that I struggle to understand what they do but I know there were a lot more tools needed back then they do now. Cool stuff

Awesome work.

Hi, Nice to see your shop.. The screw assembly on the back end of the spindle to hold the barrel stable is called a " spider ".. Keep up the excellent work..

Loved the video thank you

Thanks for sharing your process.

That’s a cool way of rifling!

Incredibly clever setup and tooling design.

Thanks, that was quite educational. Great Video.

Fascinating and useful video

Very clever bit of engineering.

Good job, exellent idea!

Great video.

Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

fascinating to watch. thanks!

Super travail merci pour la vidéo (de France)

Ayyy new video! Nice work!

Very cool!

That's pretty dang slick

Outstanding!

very clever, very informative video thank you very much for your presentation

Awesome use of Fusion 360

That cutter depth adjustment is really clever.

Very interesting..!!, thanks for sharing..!!

Great explanation and demonstration video. Thank you! I just saw a video with Brux Barrels. They are using Pratt & Whitney machines and their cycle time is around 30 minutes for a "standard" blank, 27"-ish? I'd say in your case using an adapted machine and blanks that are 30% longer, your cycle times are acceptable. The best barrels are lapped after rifling. You could consider lead lapping your barrels for an even more uniform finish. Great job!

I like your cutter, as it has the potential to do squeeze bore rifling and can be set up for polygonal also.

great quality work loll

I love your three legged mascot🐕🐶

Just a thought, instead of plugging the oil pump in, rig a switch neat the control box for easier operator access. If you trust relays, you could automate the oil pump from input from the control box. It depends on how much damage ensues from running the cutter dry. Thanks for showing us this fascinating process!

Very. interesting. Thanks!

Nice job!

ABSOLUTLY!! FASINATING!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Olá sou português adoro trabalhar com metais e não sei porque razão, mas desde uns anos para cá, que eu tenho acompanhado tudo sobre fabricação e reparação de armas. E é a primeira vez que vejo isso, é espetacular parabéns excelente idéia por essa ferramenta. Desejo muito sucesso para vocês. E eu adorava trabalhar numa fafrica assim. Um grande abraço de Portugal felicidades.

Clever use of CNC lathe!

That's slicker than a minners peter!

One heck of machine . Great video.

I would seek to add a multi point tool that free spins on the draw rod. This would be pulled through as a final stroke to remove the burr at each edge of both sides of each groove, and polish that corner uniformly. Of course, a couple rounds of hard lead ball would largely accomplish the same thing.... The tool could easily be created in a sintered metal process. Very cool process that can easily be changed for things like gain-twist rifling, 5R, etc... Awesome fix!

Awesome!👍🙏💗

Amazing

Great video and with 1 hour of cycle time I now realize the cost of manufacturing.

This is by far the most explanatory video I have come across yet about rifling head. Thanks! I would really like to get some more details of how you made the rifling head as I'm in the process of making one for myself. Pls advise. Thanks once again.

Very impressive, i need one them machines now! 😊😊😂😂

Absolute Genius

Классная работа!

Amazing work, The only thing I don't like about the extreme care you put into your rifles. Is that it really makes me want to purchase one of your rifle kits. Boy this precision barrel work, along with some of that extra fancy Maple. Sure would be fun to finish up here in my shop. Just what I need. Another project. Cars and guns. That is where all my money seems to go. Keep up the great work. Hope you have a great Christmas. Hope your dog is still doing okay.

Back in the mid eighties I drove the Blue Ridge Parkway. There was a small building that housed a early rifling machine. Almost all of it was built out of wood. The technology is almost identical except for the accuracy and automation.

Very cool and every machine shop or garage needs a three legged dog.

great video !! i always wondered how this was done

Nice "tiara"!! Never work without "Safety Tiara" on your head !!

i didn't realize you were doing this,,, Great for you (and your customers)!! lots of benchrest smiths call that (cats paw) and outboard spider..probably a much more cost effective set up than purchase of a rifling machine??? indeed a very clever program/setup!! I have noticed quite a bit of difference in the quality of the finish inside different barrel manufacturers products... some look like railroad tracks,, some very slickly lapped..(competetion barrels being slickest) looked like it was cutting very smooth with no chatter!! from what one can see here,, yours looks great! you should get one of those cheap bore scope attachments to show the grooves up close (much cheaper than my hawkeye bore scope) . Good Job!!!

I like the way you are cutting on the lathe look real nice have you considered after you are done running a button through the barrel to finish it off this will give it a real nice finish no scotch brite needed save you time.

The TL-2 is the only Hass machine I've enjoyed being on

There are different ways to rifle a barrel. Cut riffling being one of the oldest. I don’t like button because the control of the lead is often a chicken and egg problem. The sexiest riffing machine has to be the Pratt Whitney model A sine bar. The model B got rid of the sine bar and has two gangs to speed things up. The hydraulics on the B are a nightmare as many specialized parts are obsolete. The model A downside is that uses turn of the century machine technology and was originally line shaft drive. Other makers of sine bars are basically copies of the Pratt Whitney. What you have done here is really impressive. Quality barrels are cut riffle barrels. I am not a fan of hammered barrels… originally designed for the German MG42 machine gun. It solves a problem unique to the MG42 but not on the radar for muzzleloaders. Marlins micro groove is a joke. I think fewer deeper lands are the way to go for long term reliability. While it would be nice to improve cycle time, you run the risk of breaking tooling and reducing quality. Cut riffling has always been time consuming. Personally I would accept it as a necessary evil and focus on quality. One of the proverbs from Solomon on haste comes to mind. I have searched for a model A for 20 years. After WE1, the anti gun mentality saw many scrapped and many exported to the Slavic countries. Model Bs were also scrapped in number after WW2. I have tinkered with idea of building a model A from scratch. The pattern work is insane and the bed casting is no easy machine problem requiring sending the bed around the country to get planed and ground. Older model As will likely need to be sent to Wisconsin for grinding as well. So what you have done is an impressive solution to a vexing problem. My hat is off to you on this one.

About the only Change I'd make is indicating the muzzle end using the spider adjusting screws. When I'm chambering I indicate both ends within .001. Excellent job. I think the z axis feed is fast enough, I might take a little shallower cut per pass. I put the indicator needle right into the muzzle.