Barrel rifling

[mark brier]

Starting a new project building a Hawken rifle. Started rifling this morning, .62 cal 1-66" twist. A little history on the rifling bench. This rifling machine came out of the J.P. Gemmer shop, restored/referbushed by Ed White many years ago. The bench then went to my grandfather T.K. Dawson and now into my shop. I often wonder just how many barrels this machine has cut. Excuse the cluttered shop.

Mark Brier

[Joe S.]

Pretty cool,keep us posted on your progress.Always a treat seeing things done this way.

[wattlebuster]

Now thats just cool

[PPatch]

There is no excuse for a cluttered shop Mark... 

Interesting bench with a long history. Thank you for the pictures and good luck with the barrel rifiling.

dave

[Bob Roller]

An uncluttered shop may be a mostly inactive  Don't ask me
how I know about this.

Bob Roller

[deepcreekdale]

Very interesting pictures, thanks for posting.  Always have a soft spot for Hawken stuff as like so many that started muzzleloadiing in the 1970's I was a devotee of them. Every day for at least the past 35 years, I have sworn I was going to devote the next day in the shop to cleaning up the clutter. Yep, any day now. Maybe tomorrow.

[mark brier]

Rifled and breeched and ready to fit patent breech. Sorry for the poor picture, that's a tough picture to take. 1-66" twist 7 groove .010" deep
Mark Brier

[okieboy]

 Thank you for the great pics of a historical piece of gun making equipment and also the best photos of a sine bar rifling bench that I have seen. I think that you are fortunate to have this piece of machinery and it is fortunate to have you. It is wonderful that this tool is doing what it was created to do, rather than just collecting dust somewhere.

[JCKelly]

I have missed some change at alro

Apparently Mark Brier posted photos, on which others have commented.

Yet the only photo I see on this session is PPatch's

Have noticed the same with some other topics, I cannot see certain photos

What did I miss???

[Joe Stein]

J.C. Kelly, check your anti-virus software settings.  I have been using Malwarebytes and a fer weeks ago I updated it and it reset something (I forgot what setting it was) and would not let anything from the new picture site load.  maybe whatever you are using is doing something similar.

[John SMOthermon]

I have missed some change at alro

Apparently Mark Brier posted photos, on which others have commented.

Yet the only photo I see on this session is PPatch's

Have noticed the same with some other topics, I cannot see certain photos

What did I miss???

Other Guys are expieriencing the same thing .

[Daryl]

Good thread on the rifling machine. I take it that is a sine bar settup.
Here's a cluttered shop.






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[Timothy88]

Daryl, you still have some space that needs filled on the right

[Joe S.]

Good thread on the rifling machine. I take it that is a sine bar settup.
Here's a cluttered shop.






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or your on your way to being a hoarder,at least that's what I'm called when I reach that point,she's all over me long before that

[davec2]

A clear workbench is usually the sign of someone who is not doing anything........(but not always...

[runastav]

Nice rifling bench! Me cluttered workshop nooo
Runar

[flinter49]

Mark, thanks for posting the pictures of the rifling machine. Very interesting.

[cpshoe]

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

[retired fella]

Thanks for the pic Daryl.  Now I don't feel so bad about my work bench.   

[mark brier]

Most of the barrels I have rifled have been Bill Large blanks left over from my granddads shop, or they were wrought iron barrels I forged. This particular barrel blank is a tapered barrel that came from Joe Williams at Oregon barrel company. I will say Joe's barrels cut beautifully. I have rifles a few old Douglas barrel blanks that I had given to me some years back.

Mark Brier

[Scota4570]

I'd love to see more detailed pictures on how it turns the rifling head. 

[WadePatton]

The struggle is real. And I just moved the bench and started reorganization, then some things happened:







I'd be willing to cut the grooves and the rest of the finishing work/fitting if I had a bbl "blank" already properly drilled, reamed, and contoured. Once or twice maybe.  Then I'd likely realize why it's so nice to have men doing that work for us and go back to paying them. 

[Bob Roller]

Very interesting pictures, thanks for posting.  Always have a soft spot for Hawken stuff as like so many that started muzzleloadiing in the 1970's I was a devotee of them. Every day for at least the past 35 years, I have sworn I was going to devote the next day in the shop to cleaning up the clutter. Yep, any day now. Maybe tomorrow.

I have a big contractor's bag nearly full and it must weigh at least 50 pounds.
This is shop clutter,mostly steel chips and shavings.It goes to the alley today
along with the house trash.

Bob Roller

[mark brier]

Here is a few pictures of the indexing head. With this I can cut 7 groove 6 groove or 5. The twist rate is adjustable from 1-10" to about 1-84"

Mark Brier

[smallpatch]

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