Howdy philip here

I have been in the general Crafts arena since the Mid 1960's.

I have done Silver & Gold Casting, Later doing Bronze Casting Professioally. I spent one Term in Junior College actually Teaching Silver & Gold Casting, as the Professor bought the Equipment to please his Students, but Said "I know NOTHING about the topic"!

Wood Working? I was the "Specialty" Wood Worker for a Commercialy Licensed Flooring Company in NORTHERN California, our largest project was a 27 Million Dollar Winery in West Napa County, owned by a Spaniard from Barcalona! (California has/had 3 Levels of contractor Licenses, ours was to allow us to work IN Commercial Buildings).

I Do a lot of Machine Lathe Work, as well as Milling on a "Bench Mill" sized mill.

I have done some nice gunsmithing to smooth out Triggers that were scratchy, but have not "built" any rifles etc.

That enough for now, except a Shout Out to NevadaBlue from "the TREE" Howdy!