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for welding and metal fabrication. Both electric
and gas welding units are available. Above this
work area, a ventilated hood fitted with a pow-
erful exhaust fan vacuums smoke and harmful
fumes generated by welding, forging, and hard-
ening operations. On the opposing wall, a work
counter supports a bench grinder and a hard
wheel belt sander that are used for shaping and
finishing. Mounted on the adjacent wall is a
spindle grinder/polisher, which is useful in fin-
ishing an inside gun radius. Between the coun-
ters, mounted securely in concrete, stands a
heavy-duty barrel vise for barreling operations.
Figure 11: Example of small gunsmith shop, built into
Custom Loading Shop. Serving a dual func-
a shed or garage.
tion, this area accommodates special loading
equipment, including single-stage and progres-
a variable speed precision drill press fitted with
sive presses, powder scales, powder measure, and
vibrator/polisher, all selected to fill your specific appropriate holding fixtures, including an angle
vise and a supplemental support cradle to ex-
requirements. Also, this area houses reference
storage files, which include loading data and ecute the required drilling operations. Second
is the lathe with a recommended bed length
records, service records, gunsmithing references
and techniques, and manufacturers’ updates. The of not less than 36”, which would be required
to perform fitting operations on longer barrel
loading facility may be expanded from in-house
loading to custom or production loading, which blanks. Also, to avoid restrictions when turning
basic diameter blanks, the recommended mini-
would involve additional licensing requirements
if loaded for resale. The process would be clas- mum hole size in the headstock would be 13/8”.
Finally, the milling operations are adequately
sified “manufacturing” or “remanufacturing” de-
pending on your source of cases. handled by a combination horizontal/vertical
machine that affords the necessary flexibility
General Assembly. The primary work function
to perform the variety of milling operations re-
performed in this area is reassembly. This work-
quired. Located near each piece of specialized
station is designated for assembly of firearms that
equipment is a storage cabinet that houses as-
come from holding areas and require additional
sociated accessories, gages, and tools.
downtime for refinishing and customizing or
for delayed assembly that requires ordering or Polishing Area. This isolated work area contains
parts fabrication. The holding fixture is centrally equipment used for surface preparation and re-
mounted on a workbench with a generous layout finishing, which produce high levels of dust.
area for reassembly. This design is equally well- These machines include both buffers and grind-
suited for its secondary function of scope mount- ers positioned beneath a vented hood to help trap
ing and boresighting. residue dust. To supplement the polishing, an en-
closed abrasive blasting cabinet is available that
General Machining. This area contains the sta-
features an external access. Additional equip-
tionary machine tools required to perform those
ment includes a vertical belt sander, a band saw,
basic and most commonly required machine
and a belt/disc sander, all of which incorporate a
operations associated with gunsmithing. First is
vac/vent. This feature allows a portable vacuum

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