- Location
- Edmonton mostly
Rampant Canadian Gun Nut Johnny Canuck here, beginning a mission. His mission, to build rifles, shotguns, pistols and weird combo's therof that come into his head in the middle of scotch whiskey soaked planning sessions with his loyal and trustworthy friends, who also happen to be firearm enthusiasts and whiskey drinkers.
I plan to preform full gunsmithing from action truing and bluepringting, rebarreling to recrowning and even the small things, like cleaning the gun till it works again. I also plan to build my own actions, mounts and eventually the barrels. Since it will be a small operation I believe I will do cut rifling barrels. If popularity ensues I may switch to buttoning, but that will be several years down the road methinks.
Now seeing as planning plus preperation prevents piss poor preformance I want to get a general survey out to the CGN community, the gunsmiths and garage tinkerers specifically. I want to know what you do, and what you use to do it, tricks, tips and past mistakes are also welcome, just because I didn't make a mistake doesn't mean I cannot learn aught from it.
Suggested reading and literature to the point of my goal, who has wrought knowledge onto paper so that I may use it to my own means and what did they title it?
A little background on me before I get calls of getting in way over my head; I am currently a 3rd year millwright with a fair bit of machining expirience and also plan to take machinist as a second trade. I am also a firearms enthusiast. To some this means occasionally going to the range, to others like me it means sitting up till 3 in the morning watching showcase and cleaning guns, taking them apart for the heck of it or reloading ammo while thinking about why i don't have a girlfriend.
So bring it on, Brands of machinery, styles of mills/lathes/drill presses used, sizes on said equipment, bed length, cross travel. Special tools you can buy to get the job done. Modifications made to tools to fill a niche, COSTS!!!, what did you spend, what has it taken for you to get where you are now in time and heartache? What have you worked your blood, sweat and tears into? Any deals on equipment that might perk your ears in the coffee room or the co-op would also be useful, i'll be looking for good condition used machines based on some primary estimates. Gonna try to bring this to fruition for 25000 over the next 4 years or so.
All information is worth knowing, if I am to do something it might as well be to excess. Hopefully the people of CGN may benefit from my mania when I feel I may produce and not dissapoint.
I plan to preform full gunsmithing from action truing and bluepringting, rebarreling to recrowning and even the small things, like cleaning the gun till it works again. I also plan to build my own actions, mounts and eventually the barrels. Since it will be a small operation I believe I will do cut rifling barrels. If popularity ensues I may switch to buttoning, but that will be several years down the road methinks.
Now seeing as planning plus preperation prevents piss poor preformance I want to get a general survey out to the CGN community, the gunsmiths and garage tinkerers specifically. I want to know what you do, and what you use to do it, tricks, tips and past mistakes are also welcome, just because I didn't make a mistake doesn't mean I cannot learn aught from it.
Suggested reading and literature to the point of my goal, who has wrought knowledge onto paper so that I may use it to my own means and what did they title it?
A little background on me before I get calls of getting in way over my head; I am currently a 3rd year millwright with a fair bit of machining expirience and also plan to take machinist as a second trade. I am also a firearms enthusiast. To some this means occasionally going to the range, to others like me it means sitting up till 3 in the morning watching showcase and cleaning guns, taking them apart for the heck of it or reloading ammo while thinking about why i don't have a girlfriend.
So bring it on, Brands of machinery, styles of mills/lathes/drill presses used, sizes on said equipment, bed length, cross travel. Special tools you can buy to get the job done. Modifications made to tools to fill a niche, COSTS!!!, what did you spend, what has it taken for you to get where you are now in time and heartache? What have you worked your blood, sweat and tears into? Any deals on equipment that might perk your ears in the coffee room or the co-op would also be useful, i'll be looking for good condition used machines based on some primary estimates. Gonna try to bring this to fruition for 25000 over the next 4 years or so.
All information is worth knowing, if I am to do something it might as well be to excess. Hopefully the people of CGN may benefit from my mania when I feel I may produce and not dissapoint.
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