Rich,
I'm enjoying your article; thanks for posting it.
My grandfather was a machinist in the 1900-1930 time period. Seeing your work is stoking my long suppressed interest in learning more about this kind of work.
One of our North Carolina community colleges (
Montgomery Community College in Troy, NC) offers a pretty well regarded gunsmithing degree. Hopefully I'll be able to attend someday!
Marc
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