Gunsmiths at Colonial Williamsburg demonstrate the tricks of their old-fashioned trade, creating high-quality, period-correct firearms with naught but hand tools.
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This is the "American Story" of the start of interchangeable manufacturing or guaranteed shop-floor assembly. It is the beginning of mass-production. The 1/64th of an inch divides precision tolerancing from a less-costly non-precision tolerancing. American got it all figured out by just studying the modern ASME Standards (Y14.5 Dimensioning and Tolerancing) and basic design-engineering digital CAD/CNC/CMM technologies. This is an awesome automation story and the beginning of mas-production in North America. Europe brought craftsman from their many developed nations and we benefitted as immigrants build the economic culture. Thanks for the "History" of geometric dimensioning & tolerancing. Germany has said, "Those Americans got it right, we can build perfect parts." Thanks! T J (Tom) Vanderloop, Author, Researcher, Technology-Instructor; ATEA, AWS & SME Leader/Memberships
Was reading the comments and saw your last name. The late, great Jon Laubach was one of the colonial gunsmiths at Williamsburg for at least 10 years. His son Chris still builds beautiful flintlock rifles.
