Jeweling

[SteveWag]

Here it all is;

http://www272.pair.com/stevewag/jb/jb.html

Steve

[CommonHighrise]

Nice little tutorial there Steve. I really do need to start doing some of those. While Im not doing a rifle bolt for this project, the way you made your jig gave me a good idea for making a holder for pistol slides when I blue them.

[deth502]

Originally Posted by SteveWag

Here it all is;

http://www272.pair.com/stevewag/jb/jb.html

Steve

i didnt know this was a show and tell!!

here's one of my last ones.





its a stevens 620 12 ga shotgun, polished and blued.

[rtrageser]

P-11

The gunsmith I use all the time charged me $40 to jewel the bolt on my Rem 700 BDL. Looks great, and I thought it was reasonable cost. He is in the South hills, near South park.

[phill]

Try the pencil with lapping compound, it has been years but it worked for me.

[Corey]

You can tell how new I am to the subject of guns, because when I first read "jeweling" I had something in my mind similar to bedazzling. My first thought was "Ah. That's very... manly."

Thank you for disabusing me of this notion. Though I may still bedazzle CrazyWhiteGuy's guns in his sleep, just as revenge for any number of real or imagined slights. Or perhaps as a preemptive strike. I'm quite sure that he'll do *something* to deserve it.

[P-11 shooter]

Originally Posted by rtrageser

P-11

The gunsmith I use all the time charged me $40 to jewel the bolt on my Rem 700 BDL. Looks great, and I thought it was reasonable cost. He is in the South hills, near South park.

Very cool. I love my P-11, and polished my barell to a mirror finish, but jeweling a kel-tec is kind of like polishing a turd.

I'm not saying I won't do it, because I don't have money for a nicer gun right now and you might as well have it looking as nice as you can.



P-11likechromerimsonacavalierSHOOTER

[AZajack]

In the machining world we call it engine turning. Notice the nose cowl of the spirit of St Louis. In the Machine shop we do it with a rubber bonded abrasive stick and have also used a hard wood dowel with a slot cut down the center and a piece of 400 grit paper inserted and spread over the end of the dowel you can also just charge the end of the wooden dowel with lapping compound. As someone else mentioned polishing the surface to be jeweled works best I would surface grind flat surfaces before hand.
Andy

[Intolerantbobj]

Hello P P,

I like the heat-shrink tube idea ... hadn't thought of that ... going to give it a try.

Take Care

Originally Posted by Pa. Patriot

Depending on the piece/jig I just use the drill press.

The brushes work the best for me on most items. I heat shrink tube the brush up to about 1/16 of the end of the bristles to help it keep it's shape and use differing grit depending on the material and desired look.

[Seventy4Blazer]

why does the firearm industry call it "jewling" but the rest of the world calls it engine turning....