Morning guys. Sorry I forgot about the pics yesterday, I got distracted by a fussy two year old...
Here are a few pics of old man Chucks home shop. 50 years of collecting, and projects. Every horizontal surface had either a barrel or bolt, or action sitting on it. New barrel blanks, old take off barrels, tools, and just junk in some cases. He is not a neat and tidy guy, but does do some fine work.
This is one bench, horizontal mill (burke brand) with home made verticle milling added, home made 60* indexing head, home made bed extension. Next to it is a Walker-Turner drill press.
This is the walker turner drill press. The tooling and jig on it used to belong to Charlie Mikes grandfather, who was a gunsmith here in town ending maybe 30 years ago. There is some more tooling that came from him hiding around here too.
Unknown make mill. It had the name plate on the belt cover, which is gone.
10" Atlas lathe with a different gearbox. Also there is a powered grinding wheel on the tool arm, don't see that very often...
12" Atlas made Craftsman brand lathe, this is his workhorse lathe.
Barrels...
If you look closely in most of the pics, you can see more barrels, and parts just laying everywhere. He also has maybe 4 or 5 wheel grinder with different expanding wheels, buffers, stones, and such. Two horizontal/verticle bandsaws were hiding as well. I just love the smell of old greasy shops, and talking to Chuck about the projects he has done in here can take days!
Well, if any of you are like me, you always love seeing other peoples shops! And it was a good visit.
-Xander