Though different models of lathes and mills have slightly different ... For about the price of having a barrel threaded and chambered by a gunsmith, you can learn the skills necessary to do ...

(KL)GUNSMITH04-Don Stallman, age 53, from Trinidad, Colorado, makes a mandrel tool on a metal lathe ... More in his first semester course as a gunsmithing student at Trinidad State Junior College ...

it’s beyond the reach of most hobby gunsmiths. But that doesn’t mean you can’t put a new barrel on your rifle. Actually, it’s easy to install a new barrel, even without a lathe.

For his mill and lathe, Dove said costs can approach twice that. Gunsmith Jerry Dove found several niche areas to work in. He frequently builds custom takedown lever action rifles and Scout Rifles.

Students like Matt Hayworth spend a lot more time at the machine lathe than hitting the books when they go to gunsmithing school. “The work you do looks quite exacting,” remarks a visitor.

Granby resident and firearms instructor James Norman had an idea — to open his own brick and mortar gunsmithing business in ...