Home Brewed

There have been lots of stuff, lately, about 3D printers to make receivers and magazines and smallish milling machine coupled with available CAD/CAM software.  Here is the latest I've seen.

I, like many gunnie type people, am a bit of a contrarian.  I have also dabbled in various industrial arts as a hobby.  Combine them both and I am liable to spend $20,000 on a machinery set up to roll my own $500 receiver for a 1911, or a M14, or a what have you.

Not a good return on my investment, but think of the blog fodder!

"I am relatively handy with tools and such, but nothing to write home about.  But I spent N and bought X Y and Z and a piece of metal and made THIS gun.  I made a buncha mistakes like A B and C and if you don't do that, you can save some of that money and minimize N.  If you only want to make parts for gun X you can save even more money..."