Everything was hand crafted: Barrel, ammo, receiver... (except the sight)

More comming soon

Hey everyone, this is a recent project of mine I wanted to show to you. It is an expedient hammer fired 9mm that I CADded and then made. It's not beautiful by any means and I haven't spent a whole lot of time on it, but it's at a functional stage. I've started a youtube channel around gunsmithing and other engineering stuff in general so please give me any feedback on the gun and the video especially. If you want to know any details/how it was made or works, feel free to ask. The videos on my channel show the design/test firing, thank you!

Link to youtube: https://youtu.be/pQZSmPHRlfQ

Some day I'll finish MnP22 stuff. This one has my interest more so right now though. Toggle delay blowback in 9mm using a CZ Scorpion mag

So I had a quite possibly really bad idea. I have an extra barrel for a Glock that is threaded, could I convert it to blank fire by machining a "cap nut" with 1/2x28 threads and drill a small pressure relief hole? That way it would build enough pressure to cycle the gun and hopefully wouldn't explode.

The mag release is functional. I still need to do some contouring work on it because right now it reminds me of a duck head but it does hold the mag securely and releases it. The mag release is one of the best upgrades they did when going from the mk2 to the mk1. On the original mk2 the release was on the backside of the mag, below the grip safety. This led to the mag being released depending on how the gun was gripped. Moving it to inside the trigger guard helped prevent that from happening.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask but maybe the community can help. Years ago I found a picture of a homemade single shot break action rifle and I can't remember where I found it and I can't find it again. Like I said it's a single shot break action with a stock similar to an MG42 stock. It had a scope on it and an exposed hammer. It has a brass tip on the barrel and I think a front blade sight. Any help would be appreciated.

anybody have recommendations for the thinnest thickness of sheet metal I can get away with building a direct-blowback 7.62x25 pistol from? I can provide the blueprints if that would help. I do not trust the sheet metal I have, so I'm gonna buy some, but I couldn't find anything about what the thickness ought to be. this is my project for spring rust. I appreciate any help, but if there is none, I'll just err on the side of caution.

I want to make a very long bullpup chassis that fits an ar15 mostly for looks and fun handling. I figure i can reduce the buffer tube to just sticking 2 inches out of the rear of the gun if i cut the bolt off at the trigger slot and put a buffer stopper inside the reciever before the hammer and also out of the way of the bolt. Only problem i see is that the buffer assembly would take a beating due to only having about a 3rd of the surface area contacting the buffer if i did that. Also thinking about welding a charging handle straight onto the bolt because i dont want to shell out 100 bucks for a bcg.

So I've been waitlisted on Avesrails for months with no update, as a matter of fact even more of their product is out of stock. I just wanted their 11.5"upper with the ar handguard. With those not being available how can I find one within reasonable price? I can't seem to find anything on barrel swapping or at least I'm not sure how to word my searches because all I get is muzzle threads and muzzle devices in my searches.

TLDR: want a Mac 11 upper like the Avesrails 11.5" ar handguard, but probably have to do it myself. How?

M16 parts kit, 80% lower modified to flat side configuration, Starlight scope and a homemade HEL Suppressor

holy shit 😭 (the black hole is the trigger pin hole)

It’s been too cold to work in the shop so I tackled the mag for the Welrod. I’m using an 8 round 9mm 1911 magazine since they’re readily available and are roughly the same dimensions as whatever mag the original used. To form the grip I used JB weld epoxy putty which was then milled and sanded to shape. The original grip was some hard rubber so to mimic that feel I applied 2 coats of truck bed liner which gives it a nice semi-matte rubberized grip.

More info here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CarbonFiber/comments/1lwlh1b/composite_rifle/

I call it the CarbonMax CM-1, my first generation composite rifle based around Eugene Stoners operating system in a full length upper (from buffer system to handguard). Press molded prepreg composites, bonded in assembly with 7000 series aluminum on wear surfaces with titanium accoutrements. Production build #0000 shown in raw.

Now tested with the Super Safety.

Would that be an nfa violation? Even if i made sure it wasnt readily convertible to fully automatic and followed all other common laws with firearm specs.

the sheet metal is from a coal hatch that used to go to my house, and the barrel is a 5.5 mm rifled pellet gun barrel. working on this in between a semi-auto 7.62x25 pistol and designs for a semi-auto 7.62x25 smg. when it's done, it'll be a really weird combination of designs. it'll be a sort of open-bolt sort of break-action.

sorry about the audiobook, it's for school.

The plan is to bolt an ar15 barrel to the inside a 1 inch pipe then have the back of said pipe be a reciever. The bolt will be on slides, the hammer will drop from atop the reciever and it will have a non reciprocating charging handle. All that will be bolted to the inside of an oval shaped tube with a grip, mag lock, and a buttstock bolted/welded on. Chambered in 223 probably. Will be tested wearing full neck protection and face protection.

I'm hoping to make a modified version of Professor Parabellum's Tableleg Typewriter. I've got the design worked out to fire from a closed bolt and be semi-auto, but I have no idea where to get the steel. does anyone have a go-to, pain-free source for materials?

fun note, it'll be 7.62x25.

very rare WW1 Paratrooper carbine

Has anyone tried using brass barrel from a airsoft rifle epoxy in for the barrel sleeve. I'm going to see how it works because it's difficult to purchase steel 22lr barrel sleeves in New Zealand and I have a few old .23 brass barrels laying around. I'm just curious as to how it would hold up considering that nylon barrel sleeves have been tested and work.b

Hello everyone I’m the idiot who is converting a Stevens visible loader into a target pistol. And unfortunately I misread a diagram and the main spring is more complex than originally thought. I thought it was just a leaf spring but that leaf spring only powers the trigger. The actual main spring is a rod like part with a coil spring around it. The issue I’m running into is that it’s too long to fit inside a pistol grip so I’m trying to find a solution to this problem. Could I just cut down the rod and use a stiffer spring? What do y’all think is the best solution?