Single Action machine shop project

[Salt Flat]

I thought it would be a good time to post some pictures of a Single Action revolver that I made quite awhile back. I machined or hand made all of it except the cylinder and hammer which I had in my parts box. The machining was done on a Jet combination horizontal/vertical mill and a Clausing 10” lathe. The hardest part was cutting the pocket for the hand and getting the lockup relative to cylinder/bore alignment. It took a lot of grinding, filing and polishing to get the contours. I engraved it using hand gravers and chasing hammer. I still need to rust blue it (You sort of burn out on something like this.) I made the grips out of Paduk--it oxidizes rather quickly and turns that nice dark rose color. Salt Flat

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