Just a few more (thousand it seems) steps before this bluing session. Here's some parts of the Rearick Tundra



Top of receiver being bored, counter bored, reamed, and threaded



Transfer Port going into the housing. That's a Barnes handmade cutter being used. A piloted cutter like this would be a couple of hundred dollars commercial. I've made hundreds of them from tool steel. Some have asked before ... yes - there's a handmade cutter machining good quality 1018 steel. They will mill anealed tool steel as well, if you go slow and keep the cooling correct. They will actually mill the same steel that they are made from, when properly heat treated.

You can see the barrel threads in the port too.



Working on the Weaver rails here.



Crossmilling the Weaver Lugs here.



Surface grinding the sides of this component here.

I really need to get this Tundra's steel parts into bluing, along with a dozen other critical projects. It's happening - too slow for me and you both ... but it's happening.



Gary

Mr Rearick's mouth will be watering Gary

Awesome stuff!!!

I am liking metalwork pictures more and more....but of course, I cannot forsake my primary love....WOOD completely!

I hear you do a bit of "bone carving" yourself?



Gary

Gary,

Neat! Did you use your new camera? I was trying to guess whether or not you stopped the maching for the shot or took a high speed photo. You stopped the grinder for sure, the others I'm not so sure.

Hey, forget the gun business, there is a fortune to be made in the tool business.

Lon



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Nice, I like the play by play. Pictures look great, that new camera is earning its keep.

What kind of surface grinder is that, Gary?

It's a Harig Joe. Really nice one I picked up used about 30 years ago. Hardly even broken in yet ... hahah.

Gary

I remember the one at my high school metalshop, I believe it was one of those "don't touch this or you're dead meat" brand tools.
Wouldn't want to get the kids all worked up about having parts that are actually flat AND parallel, after all.

Come to think of it we seemed to have a LOT of that brand around the shop...hmmm......

Nothing you can't spend several days "draw filing" ya know. Keeps the little brats from talking too much.

I still can't believe that those magnetic chucks actually work. It's just plain weird seeing your work just sitting there with the grinding wheel going to town on it, with nothing visible holding it down at all.

Magnets!!! It THAT all it is??? Gosh, I thought you tossed that lever and little invisible force field fairies clamped it down. I always worried about burning them with sparks!! haha.

Gary

Yup, that's why the aluminum parts always disappear right when the wheel hit's 'em. They just don't get along with the magnet fairy.