Free 2012 Calendar Featuring South Bend Lathes

I came across a nice 2012 calendar that you can download (PDF) and print out.  It’s free and it features pictures of South Bend lathes.  I don’t have a color printer but looks good even when printed out on my black and white laser printer.   It was created by Gunsmith David Smith.

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MachinistVideos.com

I’ve created a new web site called MachinistVideos.com that has the best videos we can find about machining, CNC, welding and metal fabrication (and model engineering and gunsmithing).  It was an impulsive act and I honestly don’t know how I found the time to do it because this has been one of the busiest summers

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Download: Advanced Gunsmithing Book (PDF)

Here’s a book about gunsmithing that you can download as a 40MB PDF file.  It’s Advanced Gunsmithing by W. F. Vicery and it was published in 1940.

It’s an old book but I think you may still find it useful and interesting, even if you don’t own a gun, because it describes how to use

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Forums and Discussion Groups for Machinists

The problem with being an amateur/home/hobbyist machinist is that you may be self-taught.  There are some good web sites, videos and books that you can learn from, but sooner or later you are probably going to have a question you would like to have answered by someone who (you hope) really knows what they are

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