How bad is this gunsmithing?

[ElPollo]

Come on man....your giving highschoolers too little credit. Most first year shop class kids can do better than this! I know I did and we had zero training.

Ask for your money and cost of similar barrel. And if he argues let him know you will show his local competition his work...or he can buy the barrel and hide.

The crown is so bad!

The gunsmith that screwed up my stuff up taught machining to high schoolers. So the future is bright.

 

[ElPollo]

The threads will "probably" be ok for a can but this area is the real issue.

I can see the gunsmith saying just shoot it to roll those burrs to the outside.


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Yeah, that crown is awful. I cannot understand any self respecting smith who would let that go out the door.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Tikka barrels are a different steel than some Smiths are used to and it’s easier to get some chattering,

I can understand a job going sideways on a guy. I dont care what line of work you are in, its going to happen.

But to not only send it out the door, but also try to hide it? I have a big problem with that.

 

[Dioni A]

I can understand a job going sideways on a guy. I dont care what line of work you are in, its going to happen.

But to not only send it out the door, but also try to hide it? I have a big problem with that.

I was pretty clear that I thought it was wrong

 

[ODB]

Good Lawd...

 

[Ucsdryder]

Haha reminds me of a barrel I had done by a tikka expert a few years back.

 

[Taudisio]

Three tikka barrels done by the smith I use for examples

 

[wyosam]

Dull tooling on a hobbyist grade lathe? That’s pretty bad.


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[HairyScandinavian]

OP, that actually looks pretty good assuming they used hammer and chisel.
Edit: crap that joke was already taken.

 

[Eleven]

I’m a self-taught backyard hack with a 14” mini lathe and I can do way better than that “professional”.

 

[longrangelead]

If "I can do it cheaper" was a meme...

You also have to wonder if the guy dialed in the bore, not just tossed it a 3 jaw and went to town.
Being a Tikka, it's probably fine, if it's not fine, a baffle strike will be expensive icing on that shyt samich...

 

[Wrench]

The fact that there's no relief at the shoulder makes me think it was probably a die nut that cut it.

To theead that close to the shoulder takes cutting upside down and away, which is higher level work or cnc.....and he ain't either of those......and it would explain how he loaded the flanks so hard that they tore.

 

[robtattoo]

Threading tool:


Crowning tool:


He might want to return them to Harbor Freight for his $6.99 back.

 

[Luked]

I would be fuming mad about that.
I am no Machinist but I did a few lathe jobs in the past and that is awful.

 

[khuber84]

Who was it? Flame em for that garbage!

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Who was it? Flame em for that garbage!

Yeah, sorry that one doesn't even get the "give them a chance to make it right" pass. That wasn't an oversight or mistake, that was deliberate horrendous work they tried to cover up.

 

[Welldone]

I’ve been a machinist my whole life. There is different classes of threads. I think that muzzle brake threads are 3A.The guy that did that to your barrel has NO CLASS!!! Everybody makes mistakes. Own up to it, pick the phone up and offer you an explanation and then offer to also offer you a solution. If I were you, I’d take my BP meds and make a personal visit to his shop and look him in the eye. Then, explain to him what HIS solution is. Pay for a new barrel and pay for it to be threaded NOT by him. Ya know , sometimes you just have to hold some guys feet to fire and teach them how to conduct business.

 

[Wrench]

Those flanks didn't tear because the class was wrong, they tore because the process was wrong. Nobody can cut that lose to a shoulder and leave a plowed thread. If it was single pointed it would have climbed the tool....but I'd bet lunch that was a die.

 

[doc holiday13]

Could be a number of reasons. No lube, too slow of a cut, dull tool. But also there is no rear relief cut which is fairly important too. I'd be curious what the thread fit came out at.. There is a very small chance those could be cleaned up with spring back pass.

But that never should have come off the lathe that way

 

[Thegman]

Looks like something I would do, in my basement, with a file...