@johncmitchell4941 thank you, that's quite the compliment. I've improved dramatically since starting years ago. I carved my first gun stock in my lap. For how small my shop is, it's a really great setup. It was a ton of work building the benches and getting everything ready. Eventually, I will get another 250-300 square feet so I can separate my grinding and sanding, but that's not anytime soon. Thanks for watching!

Were you the fellow from Oklahoma I spoke to on the phone the other day? Hope you gor your projects sorted out if so. Thanks for watching!

@lesliecrowther7004 I do a few stocks now and then, but I dare say, I'm not as good as those guys from Purdy or H&H. They were in a league of their own. I have a few photos of my work on my Facebook facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084567378016&mibextid=ZbWKwL And my website: www.moosesgunsmithing.com/

If it makes you feel better, I never took you seriously either 🤣

@isaiahcooper3038 thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video

@@moosesmachinery would you consider excepting another commission 30-06 is my favorite caliber and aks are my favorite platform

@isaiahcooper3038 if you can find an M76 parts kit, yes. Part of what makes this job hard was the complete lack of parts availability. I had to get really creative modifying the parts. Even bullet guides are extremely scare.

@isaiahcooper3038 there is a complete kit, less receiver & and barrel on gunbroker now www.gunbroker.com/item/1058462691

@HiganbanaRifleman I try to, but honestly, I've been letting myself get behind shooting videos. I have a couple of videos coming up on dealing with some drill and tap jobs I've done. Not on the woodwork, but interesting nonetheless.

@vandalsgarage the J heads are extremely versatile machines. I would prefer a deckel for some more precise work though. The ram and knee arrangement lends itself to being more precise and far more rigid. But given I mostly use my machine as a glorified drill press most of the time it kind of doesn't matter. They are still plenty accurate for most things.

@@HiganbanaRifleman thank you and thanks for watching!

@johncmitchell4941 thank you! These setups are always a little janky but keep working somehow

@briandrake5464 I've found them to be excellent handguns as well, and we also are supporting an allied nation when we buy one. Armscor is one of my recommendations for budget friendly firearms. I've found them to be better than most of the later colt guns I've worked on when it comes to consistency and reliability.

@@arturhakobyan6850 I'm not aware of any single phase motors like this surviving inverter duty. Frankly in the years I've had this ive never felt like it needed variable speed.

@@ColKorn1965 I thought old farts wouldn't accept anything less than a sine bar?

@@moosesmachinery I'll only use the sine bar if I don't have an angle plate that's the right angle

@ColKorn1965 I'll use whatever makes the job easiest!

Wouldn't suprise me if it was the same pattern casting.

@SkipsGunz it could be a bunch of things. I'd hose the ram down with penetrating oil first, then try to move it in and out to break it free (be careful with this so you don't hurt yourself). If that doesn't help WITH THE CLAMPING BOLTS TIGHT, remove the worm gear & cover and see if something is broken inside. With the clamping bolts loose and the cover removed, nothing will be holding the head upright. It's probably just rust from sitting.

@RustyInventions-wz6ir what works better if you need a bit more precision is a more sensitive and easy to read indicator combined with a sine bar. This works to within about 15-30 minutes. A sine bare can get you within 1 or 2 minutes, sometimes better.

Thank you for supporting our local businesses. We all appreciate it! If that rifle isn't to your taste, we have a few pages of options (there is a physical copy available at Abe's) for you to choose from. The whole point of this project is to give customers like you the ability to pick and choose what they want in their guns. A semi gloss blued finish like that rifle has been my most popular bluing choice for most customers, and you are actually the first person to say it wasn't a deep color. One of the benefits of the semi gloss is that it tends to wear better with time when used hunting or shot regularly as compared to the higher gloss finishes. Scratches are not as immediately obvious (something that really matters for a floor model gun!). Also, the style sling stud chosen is compatible with the standard uncle mikes style of sling QDs and the Harris and magpul sling stud qd bipod I have tested it with. The inletted style sling swivel is more popular on higher end rifles, for example, some of the factory pre-64 winchester 70s through the winchester custom shop. The action chosen for that rifle, howa 1500, is one of the strongest 2 lug designs available right now. They are popular in the PRS and F class shooting circuits as they have very consistent quality control and are easy to build accurately. Due to the bolt design you feel the cocking action more so than on others, but it is a very easy tool-less disassembly for cleaning. In my career as a gunsmith, I have never once had a howa 1500 or weatherby vanguard show up with broken parts.

Thank you! Hopefully this is just one part of a greater expansion plan.

Thank you! It's so exciting to see how much the channel (and the business) has grown in the last year.

You do see some odd things now and then, don't you? With the amount of lead, cobalt, etc I get exposed to I've taken to wearing gloves whenever I'm working with chemicals.

It's not particularly well known as it's fairly niche. I'm an odd shop in that I bothered to buy a machine to do it even when it isn't my primary business. Most people with this equipment work business to business and are very specialized in this area (stock making).

I am a former competition trap shooter. High dollar custom made to fit stocks is a very big part of trap shooting. Very few competitive shooters use off the shelf stocks. I know hand checkering in itself is a very limited and specialized part of it. I bet you love that Foredom. They are one of the best rotary tools.

@grntitan1 a lot of rifle shooters are the same way. I don't work on many high end shotguns, but they show up time to time. The stocks on them are a different beast compared to a rifle stock. They are simultaneously much easier to work with and far more complex with the fitting to the shooter.

@grntitan1 and yes, my foredom is a slick machine. It needs a longer drive shaft on it but it is a huge increase in productivity over a dremel or working solely by hand.

An M head is a different beast, it has a nod knuckle. The round ram J heads do not.

That is one example of a part that can be indicated with this method.

Thank you!

Thanks bud! It's even better than the last time you were by.

What do you want me to use as a datum? And metric or imperial

@@moosesmachinery Awesome. metric is fine. Maybe up from the bottom of carriage to center of sight glass and from the right side of carriage to center of sight glass. Thanks

@@andyc8454 I'm sorry, I got very ill with covid and haven't been out of bed in a week. I'll take measurements when I'm up and about

@andyc8454 it is approximately two inches in from the right side of the case and 1 and 5/16 from the bottom. I could not find my metric rule. I'd fill to mfg stated capacity ans then mark it. Your case may be different than mine but this should get you close.

Thank you very much! Very appreciated. Hope you are feeling better.

With the noise of the machines and my camera quality I try to do benchtop explanations so you can follow along more easily. In the next video on the 20th you get to watch me smash a drill bit with a hammer.

@@moosesmachinery anytime a professional machinist or gunsmith uses the word *_SMASH_* I'm definitely *_IN_* 🔨🤣 . . . 7 days and counting

@miraclemax08 Bismark shpuld have added any kind of repair or manufacturing work to his commentary on why you don't want to watch laws or sausages being made.

@@moosesmachinery agreed . . . mostly . . . guess it sorta depends on what *_KINDA_* sausage and whether there's a cold beer handy (I can stand pretty much *_ANYTHING_* for long enough if there's enough beer in the vicinity that fulfills my 2-tier criteria list: cold and free 🤣

Starting out is snap city for endmills. You'll keep breaking stuff as you get better, but it will be less often. It gets a lot easier. Eventually you will be doing jobs without a second thought that scared you previously.

Thank you! He just sent me the image in this post this morning. I had not done any accuracy testing and was pleasantly surprised. With the flier it was 5 shots in just under an inch, from an AK. Four shots into just over half an inch! instagram.com/p/C5YbB20OHG_/?igsh=MWhqNTZxZTd2Y3hvYw==

I have a set of beater mitutoyos with carbide faces I use as my GP calipers. They are nice to have and can be left in dirtier environments than a dial caliper.

The scale may be accurate to 5 tenths a foot but practically I have found them to be .002 per foot practically. Wear, measurement error, reading error etc all limit me more than the scale.