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I’ve got a pretty decent selection of counterbores, don’t have any this large diameter. I had this shaft that was part of a $50 grab bag I bought to get a 541 trigger and I put it to good use.

De Haas’ book Mr Single Shot’s Gunsmithing Idea Book goes into detail on the Martini actions. It covers the various methods.

I have an old Forster case trimmer cutter shaft and already had a bunch of neck turn pilots. It has come in handy for putting pillars in stocks. I can usually come up with a pilot that fits the...

I would be inclined to have Lee make a custom Collett die and seat the bullets with a Vickerman.

25-20 SS cases can be made by pressing 223 up into the neck of a 7mm die with an arbor press and a punch then turning the case ahead of the rim. There is a bit more to it, but I've only seen it...

I ran out of space to post photos here, so have been posting about my Stevens 44 project here

I bought wood from CPA. It’s just wrapping up. All I need to do is finish my foreend hangers and get...

I’ve got a Teslong flexible one. It’s OK for my purposes. Will get a rigid one, the flex one is a PITA because it wants to turn away from what I am trying to look at. They are inexpensive enough...

My inclination is that some gun scribe dissed on the 58 shortly after it came out and then others followed their lead. I think my experience with my grandfather’s 58 and a few other firearms that...

What a guy. I’ll try and give you a call this week.

Orange juice does a bang up job. Takes bluing off pronto. I had one friend whose bottle leaked into his day pack and stripped the bluing off his kit gun, another had a spill in the back seat of the...

Thank everyone once again for the tips.

Maybe it’s meant to be that I finally give it a whirl. Went over to my buddy’s place with a couple problems, and some Lima bean soup, and came home with...

Well, I got a call out of the blue and don’t know what I have headed this way, but a friend is headed this way from Montana with a box of checkering tools. He retired locally so it’s probably mostly...

I looked again at the checkering I touched up yesterday and it is sharp and not the least bit fuzzy. That file is every bit as sharp and clean cutting as my Grobet needle files. $50 by the time it...

We send flea market files to Boggs every couple years. Most come home better than new. Once they have been through their service I take great care not to have to repeat that. I am going to...

Couldn’t find the Grobet anywhere and bought the Corradi from Woodcraft. I have a few Grobet files and they are top shelf. I bought a fine cut ten inch mill file from them that was a disaster, but...

I took the plunge. Was out of town and it was on the porch when I got home. The verdict: I don’t see how it could be any better. Sharp, sharp, sharp and comes to a razor’s edge V. It was spendy,...

I like it! That is what I have in mind. Nothing fancy. Just get going and learn a little bit every day.

I have the illuminated visor. It comes in handier every day. I’m thinking an 18 line tool, a single line tool, a tool for tight spaces and that ought to be it for tools. A couple of the plastic...

I have been given tools over the years, they used to be made in Tacoma when I was a kid and were everywhere, but didn’t use them and gave them away. I’m finally going to give it a try, and want to...

Agreed. My file card is never out of my reach. I have some really nice files and rasps and take particular care of them.

Thank you for the suggestion. It seems that the "diamond grit files" have pretty much taken over that market segment.

My grandfather had one. It handled and pointed very well. My dad considered it to be temperamental, he had a Model 11 Remington that also pointed very well. I started shooting trap with both and...

I wonder if this is one way to achieve a French Grey finish. I remember reading somewhere that one technique used was to color case harden the part and then buff the colors off with 4-0 steel wool.

I buy zip ties and stuff like that at HF. I looked at the files and all I saw were some "diamond grit" needle files. Haven't found them to be usable for much of anything, instead of cutting they...

I think what I had and liked may have been Grobet. I’ll see if I can find it in their catalogue. Thanks