Thread: Making a Sharps Barrel in my lathe.

Hi, It`s like riding a bike I suppose, the faster you crank, the faster you go, but I just crank nice and slowly, about 5/6 turns and the cutter is through and when It`s cutting you can feel it, so just keep the presser on till it comes out the muzzle. Have just finished the rifling and it looks good on top of the lands, but crap in the groves, the cutter leaves scratch marks in the groves, so in for a bit of lapping and polishing . How it works is when you come out the muzzle, clean out chips, put cutter down, oil, walk to crank end, turn handle back , rifling rod at breech end ,walk to breech end, adjust cutter nut and push in, walk to crank end, crank handle till cutter comes out muzzle, clean chips,!!!!##*@@!, and the book says to do this 50/60 times per grove , . I think I could sell this as the super rifling keep fit machine , the wife says I`m looking like twigge! , Have to have one of my homebrews, , Homebrew.357.

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

I think I could sell this as the super rifling keep fit machine , the wife says I`m looking like twigge! , Have to have one of my homebrews, , Homebrew.357.

@homebrew.357

Have a couple mate .... you've earned them.

Cheers
Pete

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

..... I think I could sell this as the super rifling keep fit machine , the wife says I`m looking like twigge! , Have to have one of my homebrews, , Homebrew.357.

Ha ha, interesting you should say that, I saw John Brownings rifling setup at the Browning museum in Ogden Utah. It used a wooden rod about 5 foot long, from memory, with a single slow twist thread cut along it, to drive the cutter. He operated it by hand, walking back and forth the 5 or so feet hundreds of times. They reckoned he walked 12 miles or something to rifle each barrel!

You deserve one.