• Beware of Counterfeit Woodturning Tools (click here for details)
  • Johnathan Silwones is starting a new AAW chapter, Southern Alleghenies Woodturners, in Johnstown, PA. (click here for details)
  • Congratulations to Peter Jacobson for "Red Winged Burl Bowl" being selected as Turning of the Week for April 29, 2024 (click here for details)
  • Welcome new registering member. Your username must be your real First and Last name (for example: John Doe). "Screen names" and "handles" are not allowed and your registration will be deleted if you don't use your real name. Also, do not use all caps nor all lower case.

Happy Birthday Devil Dogs

Joined
Dec 16, 2005
Messages
4
Likes
0
Location
NE Alabama
Rifle stocks

Back when rifles (03, M1, M14) were made to fire accurately up to 1000 yards, the stocks were turned on lathes!

Semper Fidelis
Jack, 0311 Vietnam
 
Joined
Oct 2, 2006
Messages
1,049
Likes
35
Location
Tallahassee FL
Back when rifles (03, M1, M14) were made to fire accurately up to 1000 yards, the stocks were turned on lathes!

Semper Fidelis
Jack, 0311 Vietnam

Yep. Called a "Blanchard Lathe." Invented by Thomas Blanchard at Springfield Armory around 1820, for "Turning Irregular Forms." Patent numbers before the fire mid-19th century are haywire, but might be found as no. 3131x or x3131 (I forget which.) Works substantially the same as today's Duplicarver (Google for more).

Joe
1st Armored Division, 1966-68, but still admire you gyrenes.
 
Back
Top