Thread: Making a Rolling block rifle on my lathe.

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

I`m slowly, and I mean slowly cutting out the action assembly, so no time clock, it would probably die of old age or I could before this gets finished . The block is now slab sided to 1.230" thick, that's the size of the action and now setup for fly cutting the angle face of the action front. A lot more to do but it`s keeping me busy, specially cleaning up large amounts of swarf .Attachment 137484, Starting to look different .

Looks a lot different to me - you may be the first machinist to turn a block of steel into a pair of leather boots

Quite enjoying the build-along. Cool to see a unique type of receiver getting built!