Building a Schuetzen Rifle

[Bill Raby]

Part 5

https://rumble.com/v5gn7qt-schuetzen-rifle-build-part-5.html

[Craig Wilcox]

Enjoyed this one, Bill, as usual.

[Bill Raby]

Glad to hear that you liked it!

[Bill Raby]

Part 6

https://rumble.com/v5hiq7p-schuetzen-rifle-build-part-6.html

[Bill Raby]

Part 7

https://rumble.com/v5idwoh-schuetzen-rifle-build-part-7.html

[Craig Wilcox]

Bill, clear and concise "how-to" use the mill, or drill press, to machine that barrel channel - thanks.

But, I've been wondering for a long time if, having a straight, non-tapered or swamped, barrel, would it be possible to have a mill cutter that is almost precisely the shape of the bottom half of the barrel?  Complete with the 45-degree flats?

I can see that it would be a costly item, and only specific to that particular size barrel, but thinking of mass production.

About how much more power would be needed from the mill itself?

With that ebony on the forestock, going to be a very handsome Schuetzen rifle!

[Bob Roller]

It is possible to make a cutter from a Speed Bore drill and I made a one inch inletting tool for an octagon barrel and I used it in a milling machine running at maximum RPM.Experience in tool making comes in on these odd jobs.
Bob Roller

[Bill Raby]

A mill cutter that matched the barrel would certainly work and make it a fast job. I am sure getting one made would be expensive. Tool making is something that I know nothing about. I just have a small mill with a little 2 horsepower motor. I have never had an issue with it not being powerful enough. But then I don't ever try to run it very fast.

[Craig Wilcox]

Thank you both.

[Bob Roller]

Craig&Bill,
I used an 8620 Clausing vertical mill with maybe 3 HP running full throttle.The speedbor drill is a make shift thing designed as a drill but I ground the pilot/point off and then grind the angle using an ordinary bench grinder and a 45 degree gauge.After the angles are established
then another angle is ground across the 45 degree to give a sharp edge.Years ago I "part timed"in a shop that reground and sharpened end mills and did  bunch of them for Bill Large.The shop I worked in was called Universal Grinding Services and we stayed busy.I also worked in a nearby shop that catered to the coal mining industry and Bob Null who owned it needed someone who understood the idea of a bolt circle and a vertical mill with an indexing table.Thanks for the picture progress on the Schuetzen/Scheibenbuchse.
Bob Roller

[Bill Raby]

Part 8

https://rumble.com/v5j9iaq-schuetzen-rifle-build-part-8.html

[Bill Raby]

Part 9

https://rumble.com/v5k6935-schuetzen-rifle-build-part-9.html