Thread: Making A Quigley Sharps Rifle on my lathe.

Hi Guys, Still hobbling around on my crutches and yea, back on to my lathe, carn`t stand sitting around. Like I said, I`m making the Sharps hammer from a round lump of steel, here is how it was done. Set up a and drill the holes, some holes are just for profile and this gives you a datum point to work from to do most of the machining . Made up a cutter to cut the top profile on the outside of the hammer, now this could not be turned full circle , so it was cut by the ( Rocking the baby ) way, chuck back and forth ectra, until your arm falls off.
A lot more work to do yet, have to cut the square hole for the tumbler shaft and square the shaft to fit, its good to have a hobby, , OK the photo shoot, Cheers, Homebrew.357.