Some filing instructions

[The Crisco Kid]

A couple of interesting videos I found while killing time in a motel:

 

[Xenophon]

Pretty cool

 

[Phil Coffins]

Anyone that wants to finish a kit would be well advised to watch these. I was fortunate to get some training in school then work with a skilled craftsman for a few years. Files do a lot of work and last for a long time used correctly.

 

[tallPercshooter]

In the 70s I worked with a guy who was going to gunsmith school in Denver. Students had to take two steel plates and file a male and female dovetail in them, fit them together, no light showing through anywhere. Quite a filing test, I would say.

 

[Philip Lebow]

When I was an apprentice in 1960 I had to file a 1 inch brass cube with nothing but a file and a pair of bow calipers from a piece of round bar.
It had to be to size, and the same in all dimensions. At the end of my apprenticeship, I had to file a 1 inch sphere, with nothing but a file, a pair of bow calipers, and some cigarette papers. It had to be to size as well. I was chastised as the sphere was about .003 oblate...

 

[wiscoaster]

Bookmarked. Thanks for posting.

 

[Beaverman2]

Watched the first 0ne in 1970 freshman high school shop, still sage advise!