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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
Wow!!!! That’s beautiful. I didn’t know you were such a skilled gun maker.
It must have taken many hours of work and I do understand burnout. It’s better to rest and come back to something like this when you are ready. You have done so much. It would be a shame not to put the same level of care into the finish.
Did you do the barrel rifling or use a barrel blank?
Lee, I reverse engineered -- Used an 1880s Colt Saa for dimensions. I made up some accurate thin aluminum templates for the recoil shield and frame contours. I rough machined on the mill and then hand ground and filed till the templates matched. I used lots of layout dye and worked to scribe lines where the dimensions were not so critical. A surface plate and height guage are helpful as well as all the mics and digital calipers. Here's a few more picture of in progress. These were taken before the dawn of digital photogrphy so i apologize for the lousty quality. Salt Flat
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Originally Posted by Lee Enfield
