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Hi guys , I`m going to start on making the barrel for this Sharps rifle , so will start a new post just for this and give you an idea of how it was done on my lathe.
Will stop this thread from...

Hi Hanse, You have not seen my thread on my ,Hawken plains rifle project, go to #2 on this thread 11 down, and you will see what a really, REALLY clever chap that I am. I made that one from the...

Still waiting for the sparky with my lathe bits:dark mood: so hardened and tempered some bits to see what colour I could get, and the sample is the same as the action side plate, looks a nice colour...

I tell you guys you would not want to put a duck down my chipper, it would be a f.....k up duck for sure!, When I make something , It`s built like topsy, on plans, I just bubel along and end up in...

Hi Toby, Yes, I self taught my self I suppose over the years, if you had a car you had to fix it yourself, a garage cost to much, My first "gun" was made of water pipe, using black powder and used to...

Yes, Will be doing that to day, turned on my lathe and it would not stop???, :bouaaaaah: until I turned the power off, now it won`t go, Bugger. :pissed off: So hardening all the bits will be the...

Hi Spanners, Lost the plot there somewhere . So moving right along there, set the tumbler up in the fore jaw chuck to cut the square for the hammer. On the top slide a t/c cutter is packed up in the...

The hammer is coming along nicely , the hole in the hammer for the tumbler shaft had to be square, so set up the hammer in fore jaw chuck centred on the hole then using the lathe saddle as a shaper...

Hi Guys, Still hobbling around on my crutches and yea, back on to my lathe, carn`t stand sitting around. Like I said, I`m making the Sharps hammer from a round lump of steel, here is how it was done....

Hi, Having a go at carving out the hammer from a chunk of 1045, yep the hard way, milling on my lathe, good things take time. Any way I have made the little side plate for the tumbler and had a go...

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Well thank you Scouser, I am honoured by your words, but not for long, now I can strut my stuff , but lucky there`s no toolmaker / engineer looking over my shoulder , the way I do things would have...

Hi Guys, Have been waiting for a redo of my hip op, Just got called up for it but it is a temparey one, only 3/6 months and then the finale one, so no more lathe work for a bit :XD::oh noes::,...

But wait there`s more!, I also used car spring for the set triggers, they need to be hard as well, with lots of milling, grinding and polishing , made the set spring as well and a bit of a test ,all...

Hi, Hey Maca is your one a Shilo sharps, with a 1-18" twist, it will shoot out to 800/1,000, like Billy Dixson. I`m thinking of 1-20" or 1-"24, should be good to 3/400 yards and a lighter bullet?....

Here`s the new gun drill and barrel to be. the large round bit of aisi 1045 steel is going to be the receiver with a hell of a lot of machining!, O for a milling machine or c n c, good things take...

Ok, That lumpy bit part of the under lever/trigger garde , had to make it in two pieces and when both were ready I weald them together, then a lot of grinding, bending, sanding, polishing for a nice...

26656 Some more pic`s to see if I can upload them, The lumpy bit at lower right is then of the breech under lever front bit, making it in tow bits, think I`v got it. homebrew.357.

26642 Here is a pic of where the breech block, (not mine) fits in the receiver, and seeing that I`m making it I don`t think a standard stock would fit, would like to make one of black walnut. This...

Those pic`s and this one is to show Rushy what a Sharps looks like, and it is Maca 49`s avtar, I think. there`s pic`s are not my gun, haven`t made the barrel or receiver yet. I think my pics are to...

2658726588 This is what the sharps 45-70 looks like, It`s going to be a hard job to make one. Homebrew.357.

2656226563Hi All, been off line for a bit, my computer had a brain fart and gassed it`s self. So new laptop and learning to get it going and it would not let me on the forum, got it fixed.
So with...