The machines needed for a complete gunsmiths shop ?

[shortgrass]

If i remember right about $50k

That Centroid up grade runs $15-$16000, then there's the cost of the lathe, itself. That's if you install the CNC upgrade yourself. The Centriod isn't bad, once ya' get used to it. It helps to have some CNC background to begin with, though. I wouldn't try to get 'wild' and install the up-grade on just any lathe, like a Griz, PM or Jet. It'd have to be a top of the line machine to begin with.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

That Centroid up grade runs $15-$16000, then there's the cost of the lathe, itself. That's if you install the CNC upgrade yourself. The Centriod isn't bad, once ya' get used to it. It helps to have some CNC background to begin with, though. I wouldn't try to get 'wild' and install the up-grade on just any lathe, like a Griz, PM or Jet. It'd have to be a top of the line machine to begin with.

A babin retrofitted machine is what chris was using on that video. They make em look like new and they have .0001 repeatability. You wont find many machines that can pull this off no matter how much money you throw at it

 

[shortgrass]

Babin did the retro, using Centroid components. I look at a Centroid view screen almost daily and the shot of the screen is of a Centroid program. Notice I said, "if you install it yourself". That $15-$16000 is componet cost only. Pay someone else to do the install and, naturally, the cost goes up. There seem to be quit a few companies out there that do re-fits from manual to CNC. The mill I use was re-fit by "Route 66"/elrodmachine, that is now owned by Servo.

 

[Clark]

Babbin was the worst source of metalworking machinery on ebay 20 years ago, according to the folklore of rec.crafts.metalworking on the old usenet.
They constantly had Babbin sightings. All caps, in connecticut, never shipping, just painted stuff.

I have moved from rec.guns and rec.crafts.metalworking in the 90s to world wide web gun lists and then gun forums.

I am starting to move to youtube:
Robrenz on youtube and robinrenzetti on instagram
Just on youtube:
Stefan Gotteswinter
This old Tony
Joe Pieczynski
Keith Fenner
oxtoolco
mrpete222
Winky's Workshop
Blondihacks
AvE
Tech Ingredients
Black Beard Projects
Precision Machine Shed
Clickspring
JoergSprave
Adventures with a Very Small Lathe
Steve Summers
Andrew Camarata

If you watch enough of these guys and they watch each other, you will more than once see a Chinese Deckel clone get accurized.

I have a Bridgeport series II with DRO and Precision Matthews 1236 with DRO as my main tools, but I also have a Fein vacuum, Delta jointer, Delta table saw, Delta bandsaw, craftsman grinder, Enco end wheel grinder, Lincoln TIG welder, some belt sanders, a barrel vise mounted on a steel bench, and a big old rotary table for cutting gears that I use for extractor relief cuts on Mosin Nagants.

I have paid for the mills and lathes used by a couple guys I hunt with that know a lot more than me about machining.

Make that 3 guys. I just gave an old lathe to a guy with 3 dozen money making patents. He knows more than me about everything. He is rebuilding the lathe and has a great way of measuring the trade off of spindle bearing temperature vs pre load.

 

[hoz53]

Babbin was the worst source of metalworking machinery on ebay 20 years ago, according to the folklore of rec.crafts.metalworking on the old usenet.
They constantly had Babbin sightings. All caps, in connecticut, never shipping, just painted stuff.

I have moved from rec.guns and rec.crafts.metalworking in the 90s to world wide web gun lists and then gun forums.

I am starting to move to youtube:
Robrenz on youtube and robinrenzetti on instagram
Just on youtube:
Stefan Gotteswinter
This old Tony
Joe Pieczynski
Keith Fenner
oxtoolco
mrpete222
Winky's Workshop
Blondihacks
AvE
Tech Ingredients
Black Beard Projects
Precision Machine Shed
Clickspring
JoergSprave
Adventures with a Very Small Lathe
Steve Summers
Andrew Camarata

If you watch enough of these guys and they watch each other, you will more than once see a Chinese Deckel clone get accurized.

I have a Bridgeport series II with DRO and Precision Matthews 1236 with DRO as my main tools, but I also have a Fein vacuum, Delta jointer, Delta table saw, Delta bandsaw, craftsman grinder, Enco end wheel grinder, Lincoln TIG welder, some belt sanders, a barrel vise mounted on a steel bench, and a big old rotary table for cutting gears that I use for extractor relief cuts on Mosin Nagants.

I have paid for the mills and lathes used by a couple guys I hunt with that know a lot more than me about machining.

Make that 3 guys. I just gave an old lathe to a guy with 3 dozen money making patents. He knows more than me about everything. He is rebuilding the lathe and has a great way of measuring the trade off of spindle bearing temperature vs pre load.

thanks for that list. Ive checked some of them out but some i didnt know about so i will look at them to

 

[tobnpr]

Don't forget Adam Booth..
Top of the list.

 

[Clark]

Yeah, Adam Booth calls his youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/Abom79/videos

 

[Vinootz]

I’ve been collecting machinery for a diy shop and it looks like I’m going to be able to set it up in a friend’s warehouse. So far I’ve collected;
Clochester Clausing 13” lathe (same as Harrison M300)
Millrite MVN milling machine
Roll-in bandsaw
Three grinders and buffers
Deckle SO grinder
So far this is the machinery I’ve collected. What am I missing as far as machines go ? I’ve been collecting a bunch of tools to go with this and I’m not wanting to really delve into those yet just machines you would recommend that I don’t have.

Have fun, I’d rather just pay an established gunsmith. Lol

 

[LVLAaron]

My girlfriend demands to know why I am so aroused right now.