People who have visited our factory and toured the workshops will have been shown the set of parts from which our guns are made. It is the starting point of every tour we give as they are the starting point of every gun we make. The set of parts illustrated above is for a 28g hand detachable lock with single selective trigger, one pair of locks, tip and toe plates and a woodward style grip.
These parts are made for us by Westley Engineering as and when the various orders come in, each set is gun or rifle specific and includes all the options that the customer has requested. We do not hold any stock of parts but rather manufacture specific parts to each individual order, thus using the very latest drawings allowing us to deliver the very latest developments.
These parts are all made using primarily 3 CNC machines, Milling, Wire EDM and Die Sink EDM, we also use traditional lathe and surface grinders. A full set of parts takes between 250 - 300 hours of both manned and unmanned machine time.
Over the next months I hope to show you how these parts are transformed from the machining we receive, to the final component used in the gun.
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Neill Clark on February 14, 2015 at 7:44 pm
Such is the lot of the blogger who inspires his readers!
It’s a hole I am sure you and your team will fill manfully, thanks from this reader and all the others I suspect.
Simon Clode on February 14, 2015 at 6:53 pm
We will always take the stock out of the blank first and if a suitable piece is left we will use that for the forend. Often we buy (or actually are given in the deal) forend pieces when buying the wood. These are smaller blocks which come from the same tree so are the same type of figure and colour. They are off cuts really. We do tend to buy our wood in groups and often it is from the same tree, when you find a nice blank there are often three or four similar ones and always enough surplus for forends.
I appear to have dug myself a hole with this post!!
Morten on February 13, 2015 at 6:53 pm
Fantastic,, Just put the parts in the box and shake it for a while, and you have a finished gun :-)
seriusly, I am superhappy I found this blog Simon and I look foreward to follow.