I remember being very impressed months ago with your first efforts at gunbuilding but now seeing your subsequent work all I can say is.......speechless! Keep it up - you have breathtaking skills and talent! Metalsworking is a fantastic hobby and fooling with guns is heaps of fun... Currently I am b...

Alphawolf45 - I was reading the other day that many of John Browning's firearm patents were never built by any gun company. Did you ever consider dusting one of these off and trying to build such a gun? :D Guys, again I appreciate all the compliments.. Means a lot to me that some of you think they ...

I have about decided to try cowboy action shooting- maybe next year..I'll need to start reloading before I start that plus I dont have the right guns for it..I've started gathering materials to build a couple Winchester 1873s...I'll have to buy a couple six shooters and leather and lot of other stuf...

Okay and here is my .38-55 Highwall that I just now finished..Well it hasnt got sights yet.. The other pictures I have are too large for this forum.These will have to do..I made every piece of this rifle, every bolt and spring..Probably the toughest of my builds to date.. ... http://i170.photobucket...

I have finished a couple more builds..This is my version of the ubiquitous Marlin model 60 ...I had one I liked but it had the plain jane beech stock and aluminum receiver and triggerguard..I decided I could improve it..What I did here is made the receiver and the trigger guard in steel..Carved the ...

Wow Charlie I like how you made that buttplate..Matching the profile of top of the receiver, very sharp.....Gonna make a video now?..

Guys, I appreciate your compliments.. And I like being able to share my enthusiam for this side of the guns hobby.. Last couple days I have worked on a project that I had set aside a couple years ago..Its a fullsized Winchester Highwall....Its really awesome for me to be able to consider and choose ...

KirkD I am not as good as Charlie and couple other guys I know but I think I am having just as much fun....I could do better if I had more patience...After a couple or three months work my enthusiasm wanes.. I am presently building a pair of half scale Winchester lowwalls and they are kicking my but...

This post caused me to spend a couple days researching Juneau Alaska...Hey looks like a place I would really like to live...Except looking at the real estate prices..Even a little single and two bedroom homes on tiny city lot is for sale at $300,000.00.........I like it that the ocean is on one side...

jumbeaux Rick in East Texas... I'm in Southwest Arkansas , were neighbors.. Why is it most of the guys who worked in machineshops all their lives do not set up a hobby shop at home? Seems a waste of hard won talent and a missed opportunity to pass the interest on to the next generation....Old man th...

Man, I like that Butt Plate. Did you use the old one for the pattern? Is that a sand casting, or investment / lost wax process? Charlie Buttplates I use original steel buttplate as a pattern for sand casting...I like sand casting for lots of things..But the finish is rougher than lost wax...See thi...

jumbeaux You didnt set yourself up a shop at home? This picture shows the bronze buttplate that I sandcast for the Marlin 1892. I heated it at 1200F for 20 minutes to give it the blackish oxide finish..Steel would have been better but I cant cast or forge steel buttplates.I'd have to buy steel buttp...

AlphaWolf...asked a couple of questions on page 2...just wondering about the machine tools you used.... jumbeaux . Metalsworking is my hobby but I am really very serious about my hobbies..... I have a 60 by 60 foot hobby shop with another 20 by 40 foot upstairs for restoring antique and obsolete el...

I am surprised at the response. I showed this same gun at the Marlin collectors forum and have gotten more comments in 24 hours here than in two months over there.. . Charlie you should link to those two videos you made shooting your lever acting pistol..I saved those two vids to my documents and wa...

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/Alphawolf45_2007/Whilebarrelisbluing.jpg This picture shows my weakness..Look at the comb of the original on top picture and then my copy on the bottom. I did not take quite enough wood off the top of the buttstock yet I called it good..By the time I get arou...

Very nice work! That's so far above my skill level. I guess that's why I buy them instead of building them. :D . Buying would be better for most people..If my big interest were guns I would just buy them...But my deal is that I am a metalsworking hobbiest and then next I need a project..Guns is nic...

Absolutely a beauty. Thanks for sharing such a remarkable project . What raw material did you start with for the receiver , bolt ? I use a low carbon steel for the frame and lever and any other part I want to colorcaseharden. 8620 would be the best choice since that is best for parts to be carburiz...

Fer your NEXT attempt = you can enlarge a few measurements, and do one up in .22 Mag ! :P :P :P :P . Oops rats...Lost my post..Well anyway..Hehhehh Pete the model 1892 has weak breechblock and cannot handle even high velocty .22long rifles...I made this breech block from A-2 toolsteel hardened and ...

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/Alphawolf45_2007/colorcasehardenedfront.jpg Yes Marc I do the color casehardening also..It is good part of the fun. Results are variable, never know for certain if its going to come out of the quench tank purty or double ugly. Bob soon to retire ...Yeah I fin...

Took most of my spare time for two months... ...It aint hard to build a gun if you got some good tools and know how to use them..Toughest thing is to keep going all the way to the finish.. . .I have resized my pictures to 800 pixels and less width yet continue to get the red letter error message sta...

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u250/Alphawolf45_2007/Marlin%201892/10.jpg I am real happy how this one turned out..I copied old Marlin model 1892 .22 that inherited from Granddad. I made every piece except bought the tube magazine and the extractor and used a rifled barrel blank. http://i170.ph...

Youve given enough pictures that a determined fellow could build that same gun. I note that I do not know what ejects the spent cartridge after pulled out by the extractor..And I dont know what else might trip up a clever fellow.. I AINT gonna try to build one of'em , you'all might laugh at me :D bu...

I'm in rural southwest Arkansas.. I have a live tree blowed over in my rural backyard. Every week for the last several years my wife cooks chicken on thursdays and pulls the skin off and then puts the chicken skins out on the blowed down tree trunk - ( out of reach of our 4 weener dogs) ..Then hawks...

Charlie I did not know O-1 would make a good spring...For large flat gun springs I mill from a piece of annealed boat trailer leaf spring.. ..Your lever springs look very stout..Does it take two of them to keep the lever in the breech closed position? Or you made an extra one while you were at it? M...

Charlie I found this place by mistake. But every rifle I have built has been lever action so its not a bad fit...But I am on the hunt for a forum having the greatest numbers of highest skilled builders such as yourself.....Uhmmmmm most of the guys here dont really know just how good you are Charlie....

Beautiful work as always Charlie...But the pictures look better here than over at the Home Gunsmith forums.. Excellent pictures..I love the old guns ..Sure is slick how you have the magazine soldered to the barrel , reminds me of fancy built up wood trim molding in an expensive home.