Colt V-spring Adventures

A collection of posts often on colt E- and I-frame revolvers: pythons, model 357s, officer model specials, etc. Topics not limited to: action jobs, fixing Bubba-gone-wrong gunsmith mistakes, and revolver porn. And sometimes I'll wander off the reservation and type random nouns and verbs that have nothing to do with our sole purpose, because who the hell can really pay attention that long?

Saturday, July 11, 2009

won a hardinge cataract tool room lathe today!


Price was great. The UK lathe site has an excellent rundown:

http://www.lathes.co.uk/cataract/page5.html

Only 300 or so made. Only 15 or 20 exist. Looks very solid.

Hopefully I can arrange the shipping w/o much hassle. (It was local pickup only but I don't want to drive to LA...)

I'm now debating on a Schaublin to go with it. It turns out there *are* more expensive ways to waste time than buying colts!

Here's some small pictures: looks very clean, with lots of tooling.






And here's a larger photos of a restored one from the fantastic UK website above:
Posted by DRE at 3:06 AM
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