Plan to have a much bigger shop (and a different handicapped-friendly home) within a couple of years.
I did think about getting into making bullet molds at one time, even made up the fixturing and tooling to lathe bore them (and wrote a story about the process). But quite honestly there are some really talented folks out there making bullet molds at very reasonable prices so I think my life's path will go a little different way. Not ruling out making a mold or two for my own use, but not for resale.
Also, unless my insurance agent would want to give me a break, I don't plan on making gun parts.
While my apprentice is running the manual and CNC lathe making the parts needed to catch up with back orders for push through sizers, I'm writing mill code to do the operations on the CNC mill that I've always done on a manual mill. There are even some parts that have been done on a lathe that can be made using the new mill's capabilities. Lots of ways to be creative in work processing.
By the way, one of the better features of my mill is that you can have as many as six user-definable X.Y origins (0,0). I can mount several fixtures or vises on the table and have a home location for each one. I can run multiple parts with one program or break into a production run and run something else and then switch back to the first job very quickly.
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