What Kind of Lathe Do You Use For Gunsmithing?

[Butch Lambert]

Nick, I know that you have first class equip., but the reason I like to use you is that you do very great quality work.
Butch

 

[ndh78]

Nice equipment makes it even more fun

 

[Mike Bryant]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwzUxzDS4tk&NR=1

When the REA runs the power in I hope to upgrade.

Get a better light.

al

One thing about that lathe, you wouldn't have to worry about having a gut or getting in shape for elk season either especially if you used it every day.

 

[Jdh]

Harrison M300B
Heavy 10 SBL

 

[Pete Wass]

Nick, I know that you have first class equip., but the reason I like to use you is that you do very great quality work.
Butch

So Nick,

How does it feel being USED?

 

[frwillia]

Andes. 12 x 36 import with 1-5/8" spindle hole.

Fitch

 

[Butch Lambert]

Hush Pete!
I need to post photos of Nick's work.
Butch

 

[jackie schmidt]

Jerry

I noticed you said "used".

 

[LesWard]

16 X60 Sebastian 1- 5/8 " spindle hole ( Pearl Harbor Survivor )

Aloha Les

 

[eddief]

Eisen 1440EV

 

[Tony Titheridge]

Precision Matthews 1440HD

 

[John Kielly]

When the REA runs the power in I hope to upgrade.

Ever ponder on how they might have cut gears & machined chucks back then?

 

[JerrySharrett]

I noticed you said "used".

I used "used" in the context of Sealey (he had 3 Heavy 10's), Miles, Ferris, Harvey and those guys who started this awful addiction but are with us no more.

 

[Engrbill]

I use a Clausing 5914 and love it. -----Bill

 

[alinwa]

Ever ponder on how they might have cut gears & machined chucks back then?

I've been into some of the big shops, generally water or steam powered and everything running off massive overhead driveshafts........ just because the little stuff is underpowered doesn't mean the big stuff was!

And some good work was done.

I'm kinda' making a point here and my point is that good work is an operator function NOT a machine function

Good equipment only makes life EASIER and FASTER, not better.

al

 

[Calibre]

Bought a new EMCO MaximatV13 13x40 lathe in 1986.

 

[ndh78]

So Nick,

How does it feel being USED?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hBYTkI-sE

 

[squeakie]

Romy DoAll 13, 13x40
In the learning stage now, making fixtures and jigs for practice

somewhere around the house I have a set of manuals for the next size bigger lathe. I ended up with a mint condition one a few years back, and ended up ordering in the manuals just to figure the thing out (it's very different). If I can find them, I'll give them to you.
gary

 

[squeakie]

Pratt & Whitney 10x60 tool room lathe........jackie

Wow! I never knew Pratt ever did a tool room lathe! What is the date of manufacture? The last P&W lathes I ever saw were NC chuckers (400's)
gary

 

[Eric U]

Haas TL-1