WPD230
Member
Comment on this statement: “A beginning gunsmith really only needs good hand tools and a very good drill press with a compound table. As you advance, you can still do almost everything with hand tools and attachments, probably adding a grinder and sander as you progress, as well as dremels and other power hand tools and drill press attachments. The very advanced shop you see in pictures that includes two or three precision Lathes, milling machines (both horizontal and vertical), drill sharpener, engraving machines and lasers, saws including band/table, shapers, tool and cutting grinders, blueing stations, etc. usually means that a lot of the machines go unused, because the art of making precision tools has been replaced to a large extent by the low cost of Chinese tools that are cheaper to buy and toss than make yourself.”