You guys are getting too paranoid again. When we bought the Paris barrel business, crowning the barrel was the last
thing they showed us how to do, and was the last thing they did in finishing a barrel. It was done with a brace and a
countesink tool. We merely placed the barrel in a vise horizontally, then carefully lined up the countersink in the brace and turned it a few times, took all of 30 seconds to do it. When we moved the shop and started making barrels on our
own we used the same procedure for a while, then changed to doing the countersink, or crowning, while the barrel was
still in the lather, after we had turned it, a much better way. However, there really is nothing wrong with the way they
and we did it with the old brace and countersink tool......just try to get it lined up real well........Don