What I've got in my set up so far for tooling is this: I have the 9x20 lathe, bench top mill, bench top drill press, 1 and 4 inch beltsanders the 4 also has a 5" disc, several dremels (a must have), a dremel routing table, full size and mini bench grinders, Drill Dr. drill bit sharpener(very handy), sand blasting cabinet, air compressor, metal bandsaw, and two bench top buffing motors-one with two different muslin wheels and the other with two different felt wheels, and a bench top scroll saw. I won't get into specialty small tooling unless needed. I use all of these alot between building the guns and grips. You will use the lathe to chamber barrels and the mill to chamber cylinders. I also have the hot bluing setup for handguns but I don't have a building for it so I have to wait for nice weather which sucks when you live some place where it rains 250 to 300 days a year, it's a cool set up fully self contained on a cart. I think retail from Brownells is 1500-1700. I still need to pick up my press from storage but I've run out of room. I got disabled before I got a garage and shop built so my machine shop is on the back porch which is totally enclosed and I made my wife take everything stored in our shed and store it in the horse trailer so I could set up the rest of the equipment in there. It's kind of a crude setup but it's nice with my insomnia at 3:00 in the morning I can turn out a barrel or whatever, in fact most of my guns were built between midnight and 4 AM.
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