need a gunsmith......

[ebonitekid767]

anyone know a smith that can do a rechamber job for a good price?preferably someone with a website to where i can see prices and such?

thanks

[Flash]

If you buy the chamber reamer, you can go to any decent local machine shop and have them do it and sell the reamer on an auction site. This will be much less expensive since the gunsmith will charge you for the reamer if he doesn't have it in stock and he'll keep it.

[quickdtoo]

Actually the gunsmith should rent the reamer if he doesn't have a commonly used reamer caliber, that will cost you the same as if you rented it if he's honest. That's what the smith whom I used did, and he said that is standard practice for smiths if they don't have a reamer. It's also the reason why there are reamer rental companies, they mainly cater to smiths, not us DIY kinds, that's why they don't offer help to us.... :cry:

[Fred M]

Flash.
Very few machine shops are set up to do rifle chambers, nor do they have the head space gages. Nor do they like to chamber rifle barrels because they can't make any money on that kind of job.

I have a friend that has a big machine shop he does not do any chamber work. So he knows how, he does his own and he will do a good job.
He won't do one for me. He says there is the lath do it your self. But I take my barrels to a gun smith. Also I could do it and take all night but I wont. Knowing how it it is done and doing it is not the same thing.

I could tell you how I did my own octagon barrel on one of his milling machines. The gun smith price was a bargain compared to the time I toke.
Not one of all the machinist in the shop ever done one.

Most gun smith do a fine job and they need to be kept in business, it is really easy to bugger up a chamber. Some barrel makers like Black Star provide a sample steel so the smith so he can test  lath speed, feed and cutting fluid. These guys get my business and I never hackle with the price.

I agree with Quick 100%. A good deal is to buy the reamer and split the cost with the smith  and leave him the reamer if he can use it later.

[Flash]

Fred M
It's been years since I had any contact with the machine shops I grew up near but at that time, several shops did gun work and rechamberings. I guess it's become more of a specialty business then before. I can imagine how some rechamber jobs can be rather lengthy and involved but in high school, I can remember a student rechambering a Savage 30-30 to an Ackley cartridge. He did it within 5, 45 minute periods with the teacher's help but he left it chucked in the lathe. We made parts for small engine repair, drilled barrels for scope bases, made naval truck cannons. I can just imagine a rifle barrel going to school today!!! Yes, you are right, knowing how and doing it is two different things........I just wish I had a lathe in my garage.