Thread: Self isolation gun projects

Think you need to stretch those barrels a bit, or the Italian mafia boys will be putting in a order.

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

Think you need to stretch those barrels a bit, or the Italian mafia boys will be putting in a order.

@homebrew.357 how's the roller going ?

I'm dreaming up ideas with the next lot of offcut barrels

Here we go again

Just finished this barrel band for G2 contender

Nice. Very Nice

Nearly finished the third one I need
Will finish that tomorrow and then tidy up the surfaces and install one on my 6.8SPC barrel

Polished one to P220 this morning

Finished them all just before the 3pm C19 level briefing
So then I can decide which project to rip into next based on the level settings for the next few days / weeks

Gave the howa mini a wee paint job, was going to go Matt black but liked the grey primer coat so just gave it a few more. Just a subtle wee change from the stainless

Wouldn’t leave it just as primer,might need a clear coat over the top ,found my paint job on the sako rubbed off at the carry spots,oils from your hands affect the primer.I used a black etch primer on my stainless barrel and it hasn’t worn off where as camo top coats have.

I am going to leave as is and see how it goes, I did a 10/22 barrel couple years ago with this and was going to put a top coat bit ended up wanting to go shooting so left it and never went back to finish it and it has withstood really well. Be interesting to see as 10/22 was bead blasted first so better prep.worst case is it scratches/peels off and I'll have to redo at some stage.so your camo top coats wore off down to your etch primer or did you just have a etch primer on?

Originally Posted by Mackattack

I am going to leave as is and see how it goes, I did a 10/22 barrel couple years ago with this and was going to put a top coat bit ended up wanting to go shooting so left it and never went back to finish it and it has withstood really well. Be interesting to see as 10/22 was bead blasted first so better prep.worst case is it scratches/peels off and I'll have to redo at some stage.so your camo top coats wore off down to your etch primer or did you just have a etch primer on?

The camo coats wore off but I carry my gun a bit funny so hands contact the barrel a fair bit,the black etch primer has held up,will post a photo tomorrow.camo coats were a product called rustoleum .

Decided to make a benchrest and used it today to check the sighting on that JW15. The butt rest is moveable to accommodate different length rifles.

Now discovered though that I need to angle cut those outside top corners of the butt rest as they dig into you.

Finished this a while ago, but lockdown finally got me to post about it.
Decided I wanted some front and rear sights for a single shot rifle but didn’t have enough time to do it in the workshop, so modelled it with 5 minutes here and there and then printed it instead.
Ultimately these were to test the idea and adjust rather than a finished product, but they worked out really well. Great way to prototype stuff or just make something tough and lightweight quickly.


Front sight is a keyed insert so you can change it out as you want – the triangular profile was made to be filed down for testing but ended up not needing to file. Next version would be carbon fibre for rigidity and have a fibre optic insert for low light.


Rear sight is elevation adjustable with a through-drilled hex head screw and nut assembly. I pressed a disk onto the head of the screw to block the right a bit better. Printed the rail too just for fun – A carbon fibre rail would actually work quite well. In the future I’ll probably either make the rear sight a clamp-on unit or built it into the rail so it can fold away when not in use and not interfere with a scope.

Made a foresight for my Italian slug pistol, attached it with JB Weld. (I’d made a rear sight and foresight a while ago but somehow lost the foresight)
Looks good - only I found out it shoots 8 inches high at 10 metres even with the rear sight at lowest setting

I guess the previous foresight was a tad higher…

New Property. We're supposed to be building a shed and house but . . . bloody engineers

So today I attended to priorities - built a new backstop for the 22 range, we're pretty much surrounded by "reserve" so shooting a suppressed 22 is a luxury I like to indulge!



Will be able to shoot 50M from the new deck. 100M from within the property. Out to 240M with the goodwill of the grazier of the reserve - thats heaps for a 22!