Thread: Making a Sharps Barrel in my lathe.

I want one to, so, I`m making it, now the action is all on a side plate and it has to be good hard steel, but you have buy a large bit and I only needed a small bit. Problem, how to find a bit of good comeinhandy stuff, . Having a barbie at my sons place , you haven`t got some hard plate steel buy any charnce son?. I`v got three bits, buggered up Stilth chain bars, the rest is history . So cut a bit from bar with angle grinder, very hard, annealed it with gas tourch so I could cut to shape, then drilled holes and cleaned up ready for fitting other bits. So, yer, had my side plate, Homebrew.357
, Bit cut out from chain bar. , Getting there., cleaned up., The side plate from chain bar, when ready will just reharden and temper for nice finnish.