Great Trails, last of the pics.....

[BLAHMAN]

Here are the last of the pics from Great Trails....

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This is the business end of the cutter. That is a chunk of Sako tool steel that Tom fashioned into a cutter. The cutter is shapped like a saw blade and is placed into a hickory rod turned down to just slip into a barrel. The steel on this barrell is 4150 and it is tough, tough stuff! We get our blanks from Ed Rayl. At first we had a darn hard time working that 4150 stuff, but Tom figured out how to cut a very smooth barrel. initially, as we would cut, the cutter would dull and start to tear the steel, not cut it. It's taken us a few tries to fugure out how to work with the stuff, thanks to Tom.

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Some more guns on the wall. I'm always fascinated with the variety of guns that we concoct and create, it's simply amazing and I love just standing back and looking at everything....what a lucky guy I am!

 

[Gordon Horn]

Thanks for those pics. I've never seen an actual rifling machine before. I've seen drawings, but not the real thing. Not all that complicated looking, but I'm sure there are lots of things one needs to know to rifle barrels properly.

The wall of finished rifles could ruin my credit history in a hurry. There's at least a half dozen or so (more, probably) that I'd like to add to my meager arsenal. :front:

 

[BLAHMAN]

Thanks Flatlander, for the compliments.

 

[shmrck1]

BLAHMAN,
Great pictures as usual....That wall of guns
could make a grown man cry :cry: I want'em all.
snake-eyes :applause:

 

[bshultz]

Very nice pictures, wish my wall looked like that!

 

[walruskid1]

blahman - let me call you with a credit card # and a shipping address. no, belay that last statment. your close enough i'll just come with the truck!

 

[BLAHMAN]

Those aren't all mine! I made a few of them, but as a general rule of thumb, we just demonstrate, we sell nothing but our comments and dumb looks are absolutely free. Anything that requires use of our lightning fast quick wits requires some cash.......to date, we haven't made a dime! :shocking: ::

 

[hcook]

Those aren't all mine! I made a few of them, but as a general rule of thumb, we just demonstrate, we sell nothing but our comments and dumb looks are absolutely free. Anything that requires use of our lightning fast quick wits requires some cash.......to date, we haven't made a dime! :shocking: ::

Good thing you don't charge each other. You'd all be in the poorhouse :crackup:.

Hank

 

[walruskid1]

i used to work in a gunshop and owed him money every month!

 

Once again ... YOU did it great pics fore sure I will down load'em to show my bud what a rifling machine is like... Thanks again Loyalist Dawg :hatsoff: