I am looking for someone to do some bolt handles for me. I have Burgess handles from half/moon. Looking for that quality of work.

Darrell Ragar
415-886-8825

I have a half moon dennis olson is putting on my CZ which I should have back in 3 weeks or so.

Dan Armstrong off www.accu-tig.com does a wonderful job. He makes a living doing this. He has done about 15 for me. Turns them in a few days everytime.
Butch

Mark Penrod can do this. I wouldn't suggest this, but he told me that he could offer these.

Here are some photos. You should contact him.





Here is one in particular that he did for me. It's a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 in .375.



Let me know if you need contact information.

Dean Zollinger, Marc Stokheld, and Mike McCabe all can do a great job for you.

Yes, Mike McCabe can do this, too. Not sure about volume, though, but you can contact Mike about that.

Here is a CZ in 9.3 that Mike recently did for me:



Chic Worthing is stocking it now.

This is one of the ones that Dan Armstrong has done for me. He normally charges $80 for the bolt handle, labor, and insured priority shipping back.

Butch

butchlambert was the handle checkering included in that $80.00? Hard to beat that deal if it was.

Now totally unrelated to that but is pertaining to this thread. I don't particurly care for the recent trend to all of these skinny straight down bolt handles. Some of the CZ big bore guns look like the handles came off of a 22 rimfire. I prefer a pre 64 Win 70 handle or a Leonard Brownells swept back handle on a scoped gun. I like the pre War Win 70 handle on an iron sighted gun.

Whatever floats your boat!!

I have two CZ's in the shop right now for straight bolt handles

Butch, did you or do you have to specify a particular style in the shaping of the pictured bolt handle?

JBELK pic
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10 years ago, my brother and I got an Oxyacetylene set up and bent Mauser bolt handles. Those handles are a little short after being bent around a corner.

I had Randy Ketchum of Lynwood Guns TIG weld (6) Mosin Nagant 91/30 and (12) 1903 Turkish Mauser bolt handles for me.
I built fixturing for cleaning up TIG welded bolt by spinning them in the lathe about the bolt handle axis.

5 years ago I read Jack Belk's bolt handle posts here at AR and Z1R's posts at sporterizing:
http://www.sporterizing.com/
My brother bought a Lincoln Accu TIG 185 for ~ $2k.

2 years ago I bought my brother's set up and he upgraded to the Lincoln 225 so he could also do Aluminum.

Learning amateur gunsmithing has had varied results for me:
A) The vertical mill and building fixtures is allot like mowing the lawn
B) Cutting threads and chambers on a barrel takes a little learning
C) TIG welding is hard.

This weekend I wore my welding helmet in my brother's shop, took pictures of the tooling and heatsinks, asked dumb questions, and took notes, as he TIG welded Mauser bolt handles.
When I got home I wrote it up like a lab report. If you are suffering from porosity, contact me and I will email my findings.

That was Dan's supplied bolt handle. I had Jeromme Glimm do the checkering.
Butch

Friends-

I have a process question. With respect to Mausers; would you have the bolt handle replaced before or after you had the action and bolt re-heat treated?

Thanks in advance.

I don't think you would need to reheat treat the bolt. I never have, but I'm not the expert.
Butch

Before, along with everything except the final polish.

If you're going to have the bolt re-heat treated, makes sense to do the welding before.

The only portion of the bolt that may soften is the cocking notch itself...easily re- hardened in shop

quote:

Looking for that quality of work.

Duane Wiebe done this 4 pannel Glimm for me on a Mex. Mauser, it does qualify as quality.

I have posted this photo before, but what the heck, I think this is the best bolt job I have ever seen.

Why? are you speaking about all the gaudy stuff on it?
Butch

I kinda like the square root and the way the handle transitions from it without a radius. The gaudy ain't bad work either.

I'm just not liking all that stuff on it.I'm very sure a talented person did the work. Just not my taste. The bolthandle itself is fine.
Butch

The bolt was installed by David Miller and engraved by the late Lynton McKenzie.

I knew I had seen that bolt handle before, the shape of it caught my eye everytime. In Tom Turpin's fine book Modern Custom Guns Walnut Steel, and uncommon Artistry...page 103 is a better picture. This is SCI #5 rifle built by Dave Miller and engraved by the best of the best Lynton McKenzie. The whole rifle is over the top but when viewed together its an outstanding safe queen...

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The bolt was installed by David Miller and engraved by the late Lynton McKenzie

You beat my post by 3 seconds

here is another nice one