What's in the Shop This Week

Love these updates. Living the dream dude, and definitely earning a reputation that's rare up here. Looking forward to the next post.
 
I appreciate that!

I did a few more muzzle brakes this past week.
It seems there is a market for precisely made, effective, low profile brakes that are custom made to a customer's specific rifle.




Small medium and large templates, fully customizable from there!




"Twins" granted a .223 and .308.


Here is a post 64 winnie94 I installed a ghost sight on last week. It's basic smith work but it fills in the cracks!




Here is a Rem700 bolt handle I thread milled for an over size knob...


The beauty of threadmilling is that the old knob becomes the new thread making for a very strong and accurately aligned handle.




And finally, I had a customer with a repro ZF41 scope mount (on a shooter rifle) that wouldn't lock up tight. My budget friendly solution was to make a "top clamp" to reinforce the roller spring.


Making it out of 4140 allowed it to be low profile without bending or flexing.


He'll need a screw driver to mount/dismount the scope now but at least it locks up solid...


I'm currently setting up to make a run of stainless steel, Tikka bottom metal. If anyone is interested in being added to the list, let me know!
 
Beautiful work !

Can you flute my Tikka 595 bolt ?

I also would like to have a Tikka 595 metal bottom metal to replace the factory plastic unit.
 
Last edited:
Thanks RJ. I certainly could make self timing brakes if there is interest. My feelings have been that those are already widely available on the target/tactical market with a lot of "brand recognition" in place making it a difficult market to break into. I chose to design my current brakes to fill, what I perceive, as a gap in the market. Namely: a highly effective, low profile brake that is built and bored precisely and true, that is aesthetically pleasing with no sharp edges or burrs and is primarily intended for use on a lightweight hunting rifle.
I'd be happily proven wrong however and would certainly entertain adding such product offerings!

ben777lemay: I can absolutely flute your 595 bolt. I'm currently charging $165+shipping for bolt fluting and can cut any pattern you like.
As to 595 bottom metal, I love custom work and would be happy to discuss particulars with you if you are interested. My email is: pcook338@gmail.com

I'm just de-burring and cleaning up this run of T3 metal. Not gonna lie, its looking pretty slick...


How it "should have" from factory!

I've got a couple extra available from this run if anyone so desires.
 
PR Cook said:
ben777lemay: I can absolutely flute your 595 bolt. I'm currently charging $165+shipping for bolt fluting and can cut any pattern you like.
As to 595 bottom metal, I love custom work and would be happy to discuss particulars with you if you are interested. My email is: pcook338@gmail.com
Click to expand...

Excellent !

Will send you an email in the next few days.

Cheers,
Ben
 
Some times its the little things... I spent an entire day this week designing and making these stainless latches. Fiddly little critters, but they're they complete the product!


Ready to roll...




I've still have a couple available from this batch, the others shipped out this week.




I've got a few more projects in the works at the moment. I am very pleased to report, the shop seems to be steadily getting busier!
 
Update: I've had quite a lot of interest on these bottom metal sets but few takers. Price by volume is a very real thing (especially where purchasing raw materials is concerned). Making these 5-10 at a time doesn't appear to be financially feasible on the customer end of things so I've re-crunched my numbers including larger quantity material supply options. I think, if I can get my numbers up, I can offer these at $250.

Call it a gamble, call it introductory pricing, lets give it a shot! CGN introductory pricing on these is $250+shipping.

Regards!
Paul.
 
Unsolicited marketing/branding advice:

1. Logo would look better if the maple leaf were to be distanced a hair from the company's name. Like 0.5 or 0.7 of a millimetre (over its current spacing).

2. Your business card should have the same fonts/branding as the logo.
 
I dont think there's money to be made on machined bottoms metal since most of them are casted or molded and it take condirable amount of time and tooling to replicate them out.
No money to be made in Muzzle breaks too, since there's dozens of shops who made them now. Even major rifle builders offer their rifles with third party's muzzle breaks added on.
 
Steyn: Noted. Things are moving pretty fast here, The card pictured is from the last batch. Current ones are up to date.

100y: I also didn't see much market for brakes but I seem to have found an overlooked niche (low profile, aesthetically pleasing, effective brakes to suit light weight barrels). I've been selling/installing quite a few. That said, I'm always interested in new product suggestions!

As to this week, Here's a combination picatinny rail and diopter sight mount I made for a Swedish target rifle...

This took a fair bit of design work to ensure everything would function and line up correctly without a costly trial and error process,
as well as to collaborate with the customer on what he envisioned.






Fine satin hot blued finish...mmmmmm


Should work a treat!
 
PR Cook said:
Steyn: Noted. Things are moving pretty fast here, The card pictured is from the last batch. Current ones are up to date.

100y: I also didn't see much market for brakes but I seem to have found an overlooked niche (low profile, aesthetically pleasing, effective brakes to suit light weight barrels). I've been selling/installing quite a few. That said, I'm always interested in new product suggestions!

Nice custom rail, I am looking for a way to have a custom rail for my Miroku Win1892 44 mag.

Regards,

Patrick
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom