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Weekend update for 8-7-16

Like every other weekend here at Gun Lab it was another one of to much work and not enough fun stuff.

The exciting news is that I finally finished putting in the A/C for the machine shop. This will really help as now you can work and keep the sweat out your eyes.

Due […]

August 9th, 2016 | Category: 3D printing, metal casting, Shop tours, Uncategorized, weekend update | 2 comments

Weekend update for 6-15-15

A quick update for this last weekend. The slab was finished at the cast area. Here are a couple of views. I still need to get the gantry system up, but I am going to wait for my good friend Mac to help me with that one. He is a much better welder and fabricator […]

June 15th, 2015 | Category: cnc router, equipment, Fab shop, Gun Lab, Japax wire edm, metal casting, metal casting area, weekend update, wood shop | 2 comments

Weekend update for 5-18-15

Well it started raining on Friday and continue through Saturday morning. With everything being so muddy it was time for another game plan. I spent the first few hours doing solid works and taking pictures. Then it was out to the wood shop and spend some time with the cnc router. It was noon before […]

May 18th, 2015 | Category: Fab shop, firing pins, Gun Lab, metal casting, model 1930 Sauer, solid modeling, Uncategorized, weekend update | 2 comments

Making the Gardner gun Part 1

I enjoy making things, specifically guns and any thing associated with making guns. I also enjoy chatting with people who make guns or any thing dealing with that. I also love mechanical machine guns. That leads us to today’s topic.

A friend of mine really wanted a miniature Gardner gun and with none available took […]

November 18th, 2014 | Category: CNC machining, Gardner gun, Historic weapons, machining, metal casting, miniture guns, Parts, Parts fabrication, pattern making, solid modeling, Uncategorized, Weapons Design, wood working | 18 comments

Library Thursday

First off you can see that we changed the title for the Thursday post from book review to library. This was done because I wanted to add more then just book reviews. I wanted to add information to the Gun Lab library that I thought would be useful to you.

So this first post is […]

August 28th, 2014 | Category: Brass, Gardner gun, library, Library Thursday, Maxim machine gun, metal casting, metalurgy, Nordenfelt, Uncategorized | 2 comments