Brownells Inc.

Mail order supplier offers a comprehensive line of gunsmithing tools, materials, shop supplies, technical books and gun parts. They offer several hundred gunsmithing tools including barrel wrenches, specialized jigs and fixtures for installing sights. Carries a complete line of shop supplies including lubricants, cleaners, solders, welding materials, grinding and polishing supplies, bluing chemicals and systems. They also carry many hard-to-find taps and dies for specific firearms and milling cutters sized for sight dovetails. Their 450-page catalog lists thousands of gun repair and customizing parts.
brownells.com

Clausing Industrial, Inc.

Offers a complete line of heavy-duty metal cutting machine tools for industrial use, including geared-head drills, drilling centers, radial drills, geared head and variable speed lathes, surface grinders, horizontal and vertical band saws, cold saws, CNC lathes and machining centers, iron workers, punch presses, shears and press brakes. Of special interest to the smaller, non-production shop are their Kondia mills, Clausing belt-driven drill presses, small geared-head lathes and Kalamazoo band saws. Clausing also offers spare parts for many of their older, out-of production Clausing machines.
clausing-industrial.com

Copper Star Ways Site

Comprehensive site has dozens of books and plans for tools and jigs in many areas—metalworking, blacksmithing and welding. Accepts PayPal. Also has link to publisher looking for authors and new material.
CopperStarWays.com

Helical Lap and Manufacturing Company

Lapping plates, internal laps and arbors, and external laps and holders, needle eye laps, lapping compounds, and custom laps.
helicallap.com

Kent Industrial (USA) Inc.

This company in Tustin, California, imports, stocks and supports Kent brand industrial-grade machine tools from Taiwan. These include surface grinders, milling machines, CNC knee mills, compact machining centers, lathes, CNC lathes, EDM and CNC wire-cut EDM machines for immediate delivery.

Their 14" x 40" precision lathes and KTM-3VKF milling machines both with variable-speed drives are perfect for the serious amateur machinist, instrument maker, gunsmith, prototyping, or industrial model shop.
kent.com

Louis Levin & Son, Inc.

Precision machinery for miniature and micro-miniature parts including jewelers' lathes with Sony digital read outs, precision turret lathes, micro-drilling machines and a complete line of accessories for them; also collets, workbenches, coolant systems, cutting tools and milling adaptors.
levinlathe.com

Mini-Lathe and Mini-Mill Websites
by Frank J. Hoose, Jr.

Sister websites Mini-Lathe and Mini-Mill are packed with information on these low-cost, Chinese small machine tools. Harbor Freight and Grizzley sell these tools in the U.S.

Detailed write-ups on adjustments, commercial accessories, tweaks, short-cuts and safety make these sites a must for anyone considering the purchase of or already owning these machines. Step-by-step instructions with excellent photos will save you a lot of time and help you use these machines properly.

Equally important are the links to dozens of related sites also featuring upgrades, shop-built accessories and projects done on these miniature machine tools. The basic site is free, but here are also pay-to-see tutorials available individually on an annual subscription basis.
Mini-Lathe.com and Mini-Mill.com

Nick Carter's Taig Lathe & Milling Machine Pages

A useful resource for Taig lathe and milling machine users, with technical support, project ideas, articles, pictures and links to all pages on the internet related to the Taig machines and their use. Very good for novice machinists.
cartertools.com

Randal Welding & Machine,
The Tool Steel Welding Specialists

Welds tools, molds, dies, jigs and fixtures. Welds for color match, Rockwell match, wear match and texture match. Also repairs machine glitches in steels and stainless steel production parts. Capable of in-house material identification to provide the proper pre-heat and post-heat to insure quality welds. Also performs micro-welding on a variety of difficult-to-weld metals. Shop stocks over 500 types of welding rod, not for sale, but so the shop can handle tough jobs quickly.
Santa Ana, California • 714 546-8193

Sherline Products Inc.

Manufactures miniature lathes and milling machines and also supplies a comprehensive line of tooling and accessories for them. Tabletop Machining, by their president, Joe Martin, is a must for the small-scale machinist.
sherline.com

Southern California Home Shop Machinists Club

SCHSM is a group of amateur machinists who associate to:

Share our knowledge and experience with each other.
Admire each other's work.
Exchange ideas, information, techniques, and sources of tools and supplies.
Consider cooperative buys of equipment.
Visit local suppliers to learn about their products and processes.
Have fun with a bunch of people who understand our hobby.

The club meets the first Saturday of each month 2-5 PM at El Camino Community College in Torrance, California.
schsm.org

Sparro Machine Products, Inc.

Services – Sparro is a source for prototypes, low-run production, precision machining, turnkey custom machinery, automated assembly equipment, machinery rebuilding, and automation of interest to machine design engineers, mechanical engineers, inventors, and purchasing personnel.
sparro.com/machinework.htm

Tools – Sparro manufactures and sells seven specialized time and money saving tools for the machinists, machine shops, and tool and die makers. There are excellent demo photos of the tools in use.
sparro.com/tools.htm

Information – A potpourri of helpful information for machinists and machine shops, a few shortcuts, some unusual machining and measuring techniques, and several book reviews.
sparro.com/Kwik-Byte_Links.htm

Tom's Machinery Moving

Machinery and safe movers in southern California. These licensed and insured specialists in Whittier, have huge low-boy trucks and 5,000-pound capacity fork lifts to move and place large machinery just where it's wanted without bending, scratching or damaging it.
562 692-8283 or 626 444-9977

Victor Machinery Exchange. Inc.

An industrial supplier founded in 1918 specializing in machine shop supplies, metal-cutting tools and precision measuring instruments. Victor Machinery stocks an extensive line of metric and special thread taps and dies, drill bits, reamers, and end mills. Website includes metalworking reference tables and a large selection of books on machining and metalworking. Victor's website makes it easy to access and order an excellent selection of industrial-grade fasteners. You can find supplies needed for R&D or prototype development, automotive work, for jewelers, gunsmiths, hobbyists, artists or all sorts of maintainence and repair.

victornet.com