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Making the Sharpes rifle

Chuck — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:00:53 +0000

In my usual time of relaxing and surfing the internet I came across some interesting video’s on the making of the Sharps rifle.

The first is the machining of the receiver.

The next video is making the stock.

This is the barrel making video.

This last video deals with the finish that is applied to the rifle.

I enjoy video’s dealing with gun making. I dope you do as well.

Lower receiver support pressing for VG1-5

Chuck — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:26:20 +0000

In this video we are pressing the lower receiver strengthening piece. This piece effectively increases the support metal around the front barrel support from 1/16 of an inch on both sides to 1/8 of an inch.

Here are a couple of close up pictures of the drilling fixture.

All the front supports pressed and drilled.

Another old video on making the 1903 springfield

Chuck — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 08:00:37 +0000

This is another video in the series of early gun making. This on shows the forging of the 1903 bayonet and making the barrel for the 1903.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq0-CDfiH8Q

Older gun making Italian style.

Chuck — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:00:27 +0000

This video was taken at an Italian factory where they are working on Carcano’s and Revelli machine guns.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KIo9Uop.9VXzcA428snIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBzYjc0MWM5BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMzk-?p=gunstock+making+machine&vid=fd97950ced4d59562eda07112d13cc56&turl=http%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.CXpnYuh%252ftLQZy%252bDfXVa%252f0Q%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D168%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgR29BrT8iyw&tit=Gun+turrets+machine+tooled+at+a+plant+in+Italy+HD+Stock+Footage&c=38&h=168&w=300&l=36&sigr=11bh00q7i&sigt=11vlg9pgd&sigi=12rr3t94c&age=1399590458&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&tt=b

Just a great deal of hand work

Making parts for the AR-180B

Chuck — Fri, 29 May 2015 08:00:42 +0000

We were down to see our friend Rick at http://ar180s.com/ a while back and over the last few weeks during conversation he was interested in if we could make a few AR-180B parts. Why not that’s what we do. So while we are waiting for ATFE approval on the VG1-5 and the machines are kind of idle we started a project to make impossible to get fire control parts for the 180B.

The first part we decided to tackle is the safety selector. This part is specific to the 180B as it is longer then the standard safety for either the 180 or the ar-15. The orginal ones were investment cast so making them that way was out of the question. What we did was to redesign it to a two piece part.

A quick look at the master cam video of the first op being performed.

This is the actual video of the part being made.

This is what the parts look like after the first op is completed.

Here is the complete lot done with this op.

Video on making the FAL by DSA

Chuck — Fri, 15 May 2015 08:00:41 +0000

There are some real good segments in the video. One showing the stamping of magazines.

Part One of the Bushmaster Pistol

Chuck — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:00:21 +0000

In this video I had the opportunity to chat with John D about his collection of Bushmaster pistols. This is part one of the multi part review of this interesting weapon.

Here are a few still pictures of this interesting first model sheet metal stamped upper pistol.

Close up of parts of the pistol.

Stay tune for the next video.

A british video of gun proofing

Chuck — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:09:48 +0000

Interesting how they did this.

Video Friday October 10

Chuck — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:00:52 +0000

This is another great video showing gun manufacturing from the early 1900’s.

video Friday October 3

Chuck — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:00:03 +0000

I just found this video from DSA on making there FAL.

Enjoy the video.