Barrel rifling

[Gaeckle]

Where might someone get the blanks to make their own barrels?

Call up barrel makers and ask if they can provide a blank. Use old barrels and have them reamed out.

[Maineshops]

Sign in my shop reads.....ORGANIZED people are just too lazy to look for things😏 Dan

[Daryl]

OH - there's my yellow flashlight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[David R. Pennington]

That is not clutter, it is called "complex interactive task oriented organization" and requires years of experience to develope the skill.

[hudson]

Mark I have a newer sigh bar machine that looks very similar to yours (rack and pinion). I am wondering if you have cut any fast twist barrels (1 in 20 + -). My concern is binding in the system. Most of the barrels I have cut are 1 in 70. Have had good luck with Rice drilled and reamed barrels, nice people.

[mark brier]

The fastest I have cut was 1-16" (not a muzzleloading barrel) but I did not have any problems with the machine binding. But the cutter was not as long and it was set into the cutter head at a larger angle.
Mark Brier

[Marcruger]

Don't let Dave Crisalli fool you about his workshop being cluttered.  Here is where he makes his Gunner's Mate tools.   ;-) 

[Dphariss]

Those Canadian, and Norwegian boys sure know how to make a guy feel better about his mess.

I was thinking the same thing.
I am planning a 12x24 addition so I have room to put a transfercase in my pickup. Hoping it does not die too soon.
And park the 4 wheeler and the little John Deere.....


Dan

[Dphariss]

But back to the rifling machine.
Wish I had it.
I have an old one that was given too me.
Twisted square rod came with part of a rifling head that is about 60 caliber or maybe 62.
Sticker is its a 22" twist... Slug gun I am sure.
I spent quite a bit of time with JD Baird. But never met TK Dawson... My loss.
Dan

[Bob Roller]

Don't let Dave Crisalli fool you about his workshop being cluttered.  Here is where he makes his Gunner's Mate tools.   ;-) 

THAT is an operating room,NOT a shop. I would be afraid to go in there

Bob Roller

[Dphariss]

Wolf used to make me keep my bench pretty tidy when I was Shiloh's custom shop.
But if I dropped a Winchester screw, for example, it would often disappear or be 20 ft away.... Gremlins maybe?
I lost a 1/16" letter punch in my old shop, sprang away when I struck it. Never did find it even when I moved...... Think it got under the base board or something......

Dan

[Marcruger]

I am glad you got my joke Bob. As clean and sanitary as Dave's functional art is, I am just GUESSING it looks like that. 😄  God bless, Marc

[ddoyle]

Mark, Huge thanks for sharing those photos, really invaluable. sending them off to get printed and studied on.

[Chowmi]

Don't let Dave Crisalli fool you about his workshop being cluttered.  Here is where he makes his Gunner's Mate tools.   ;-) 

If that is a steel beer fridge behind the big blue technical looking doohickey, then I would work in that shop.

If not,      No way! 

[Daryl]

Don't let Dave Crisalli fool you about his workshop being cluttered.  Here is where he makes his Gunner's Mate tools.   ;-) 

THAT is an operating room,NOT a shop. I would be afraid to go in there

Bob Roller

Appears to me, he's just started stocking the shop with tools and hasn't started stocking the shot and hasn't started working in it yet.