lower cost front rest idea

[Erik Cortina]

I should only be charging her $135 for sex.

You would have to break it down by the minute!

 

[Syncrowave]

You would have to break it down by the minute!

Yeah, but it's two minutes of pure bliss!

 

[BigDMT]

Who gives a damn about the time or cost. He did very nice work.

Quit nit picking and over-analyzing to reduce the man's sense of accomplishment.
Nagging old men...

 

[AKShooter]

No worries on my end,, funny stuff a few posts up

I'm a DIY guy, like a bunch of others,,,,,sometimes I wrap up a project and wonder why the heck I just spent X amount of time on it! Sometimes money too, why buy it when you can spend more time and money on something that's half as good as something you can buy,,,,,only half kidding

I have one of those going on right now and that's the Annealer.....wish I would have never gone down this road and just bought one!

The rest, it drives like a dream, imagine driving a milling machine, same screws it this rest. I've played with the Caldwell and a Sinclair, they have nothing on this one,,,,,but never ran a coaxial though

 

[bdale]

Nice looking rest AK, if that's aluminum it would really pop if polished

 

[a.costa]

Hi AK. Really nice looking rest!!!

 

[a.costa]

Any chance of making the 3D model or dxf available?

 

[JMayo]

Fun playing with our toys !
A friend had a 1 piece made. The maker said that the time it took made him understand the cost of these type things.

Yours Looks like a Sinclair. Good rest mechanics for sure. I'm sure it'll be a great tool that's fun to use.
Us shooters that do not have the ability or equipment have to go the commercial route :/

 

[Thud]

Good looking rest.
Now go beat the socks off the guys with the fancy ones.

 

[butchlambert]

Fun playing with our toys !
A friend had a 1 piece made. The maker said that the time it took made him understand the cost of these type things.

Yours Looks like a Sinclair. Good rest mechanics for sure. I'm sure it'll be a great tool that's fun to use.
Us shooters that do not have the ability or equipment have to go the commercial route :/

Looks like a Sinclair? Which one?

 

[joshb]

There is no such thing as free time.

Working on projects like this is “therapy”, really. Some people like to sit on a couch and pay somebody $150/hr. to listen to them whine. Some people do yoga. I like to make stuff with wood. The satisfaction of using something you made yourself is priceless! Good job AK shooter! Nicely done!

 

[JFrank]

I wonder if it’s still working well after all these years

 

[AKShooter]

Yes, a little surprised to see this one at the top. But still works like the day it was made, ball screws are smooth.

Does not see much use anymore though, F-Class is not as prevalent in my area anymore, moved more to the prs style of competition. Still makes it to the range for bench work now and then.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I think you did a great job on it. You should work on getting those plans out there and we could get somebody with a waterjet like field and cave to cut out plates as a kit

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

Look at it this way, That money is still in your pocket! I guess your time was worth something!

Well said @Raythemanroe. If you have some choice of several build or buy items, the amount you will save per hour worked is one way you could decide which ones to build and which to buy.

 

[AKShooter]

Ya. I do have the diy bug pretty bad. Lol. Folks have asked for drawings. It really needs to be build around a specific ball screw and bearing size. But I’ll post a screen shot of individual plates.

a cnc really fuels a diy bug. Current project.

 

[butchlambert]

Ya. I do have the diy bug pretty bad. Lol. Folks have asked for drawings. It really needs to be build around a specific ball screw and bearing size. But I’ll post a screen shot of individual plates.

a cnc really fuels a diy bug. Current project. View attachment 1151613

I remember the long dark days in Anchorage and Fairbanks. I spent my time building ice racing cars.

 

[JFrank]

I remember the long dark days in Anchorage and Fairbanks. I spent my time building ice racing cars.

The part about long dark days brings to mind my childhood, including trips to the outhouse, where a candle was waiting.
Jim

 

[butchlambert]

The part about long dark days brings to mind my childhood, including trips to the outhouse, where a candle was waiting.
Jim

Fortunately when we lived in Fairbanks it was military housing and indoor plumbing. Anchorage was a more modern time and we had 2 inside schiff houses.
Back in the older days my grandparents didn't even have a schiff house, we just went behind the chicken house.

 

[JFrank]

Nowadays kids don’t believe there was life without the internet and cell phones.