Thread: Making a Sharps Barrel in my lathe.

Hi all, The receiver has a radius on the top, sides of the b/block, so with my normal ingenuity I set it up on the lathe and using my electric drill clamped to the angle bracket with a grinding wheel of the right size I slowly ground it by the old rock and roll way. In feed with cross slide and I just moved the saddle along for the side of the b/block area. Now grinding on a lathe is a no no,, the grit will stuff up the lathe fast if nothing is done to stop the grit getting on the bed ways, I know this, so you will see lots of rags on the lathe to stop this, its not to keep it warm. , Homebrew.357.
, The set up for grinding. , One end in the fore jaw chuck. , Off centre for the radius. , The drill, G/wheel, lots of rags.