How to make a barrel on your lathe

**4V50 Gary** · December 28, 2012, 07:06 PM

Harold Hoffman wrote a book on how to do it. Here's the link:

Link

Cold link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24995286/T...s-1999-Hoffman

**Shane Tuttle** · December 28, 2012, 08:28 PM

Is this how they're teaching you to make yours in class, Gary?

**4V50 Gary** · December 28, 2012, 09:45 PM

That's not class material. We buy our barrels pre-made and have to contour them and cut the shank to fit the receiver & bolt. Ditto with the class that takes AR building.

I asked my instructor via email if barrel making could be a summer course.

wyop · December 28, 2012, 11:00 PM

I don't know of any gunsmithing school that teaches students how to make a barrel from nothing but a hunk of steel. Not even for low-tech barrels like a BP muzzle-stuffer.

**James K** · December 29, 2012, 10:11 PM

I have never done it, and don't plan to, but it is nice to know it can be done and the post was interesting. I have a feeling it is not quite that simple, though.

Jim

guncrank · January 2, 2013, 12:10 PM

I bought that book years ago

The blank is drill with a gun drill and a rifling broached is pushed by a hydrologic cylinder
The polished drilled hole
Several chapter on alot topics

December 28, 2012, 07:06 PM	#1
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 15,417	How to make a barrel on your lathe Harold Hoffman wrote a book on how to do it. Here's the link: Link Cold link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/24995286/T...s-1999-Hoffman __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*

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December 28, 2012, 09:45 PM	#3
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 15,417	That's not class material. We buy our barrels pre-made and have to contour them and cut the shank to fit the receiver & bolt. Ditto with the class that takes AR building. I asked my instructor via email if barrel making could be a summer course. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*

December 29, 2012, 10:11 PM	#5
James K Staff Join Date: March 17, 1999 Posts: 16,408	I have never done it, and don't plan to, but it is nice to know it can be done and the post was interesting. I have a feeling it is not quite that simple, though. Jim __________________ Jim K

January 2, 2013, 12:10 PM	#6
guncrank Senior Member Join Date: July 15, 2006 Location: Fern Creek ,KY and Metro Louisville at large Posts: 235	I bought that book years ago The blank is drill with a gun drill and a rifling broached is pushed by a hydrologic cylinder The polished drilled hole Several chapter on alot topics __________________ CW Shooters Supply Inc 1-866-217-5990 Machine Shop and Finishing Services to the trade and public

December 28, 2012, 11:00 PM	#4
wyop Senior Member Join Date: July 15, 2012 Location: Wonderful, Windy Wyoming Posts: 132	I don't know of any gunsmithing school that teaches students how to make a barrel from nothing but a hunk of steel. Not even for low-tech barrels like a BP muzzle-stuffer.