Custom barrel fluting???

[HUNTING_COACH]

Does anyone know where I can get a custom flute job on a barrel? I would like to build a custom gun, and want the barrel fluted a certain way.

Thanks for the help.

[Mofo]

kampfield customs maybe they do bolt fluting. What are you looking to do? I have seen a diamond pattern but not sure who did it.

[Cajun Blake]

z-hat does custom fluting ...... http://www.z-hat.com/Fluted_Barrels.htm


a small caliber friend of mine also did custom fluting as his name escapes me right now, if i rememeber i'll post up the info

[HUNTING_COACH]

kampfield customs maybe they do bolt fluting. What are you looking to do? I have seen a diamond pattern but not sure who did it.

I dont know if it can be done, but this is just an idea that I had. I would like flames coming from the end of the barrel, to about half way to the receiver. Again, dont know if it can be done or not, but I think it would look pretty cool, especially on my .25-06, being that it is such a fast round.

It might be corny, but I think it will look good. Also, I want to build a custom gun, and think this might be the thing that throws it over the top. Just my idea.

Thanks for the help.

[Dlove]

custom gunsmith

Don't know if they can do if for certain but I use MG Arms in Spring. They just built my wife a ultra light .284 Win. out of her late fathers 7mm-08.I think turned out awesome.

[McClain]

This is what Shilen Rifles says about fluting, and some barrel makers will flute only prior to completion of the barrel.

[What about "fluting" a barrel?
Fluting is a service we neither offer nor recommend. If you have a Shilen barrel fluted, the warranty is void. Fluting a barrel can induce unrecoverable stresses that will encourage warping when heated and can also swell the bore dimensions, causing loose spots in the bore. A solid (un-fluted) barrel is more rigid than a fluted barrel of equal diameter. A fluted barrel is more rigid than a solid barrel of equal weight. All rifle barrels flex when fired. Accuracy requires that they simply flex the same and return the same each time they are fired, hence the requirement for a pillar bedded action and free floating barrel. The unrecoverable stresses that fluting can induce will cause the barrel to flex differently or not return from the flexing without cooling down a major amount. This is usually longer than a shooter has to wait for the next shot. The claim of the flutes helping to wick heat away faster is true, but the benefit of the flutes is not recognizable in this regard until the barrel is already too hot.]

[RingSteel]

... I would like flames coming from the end of the barrel, to about half way to the receiver. Again, dont know if it can be done or not, but I think it would look pretty cool, especially on my .25-06, being that it is such a fast round.
Thanks for the help.

Instead of fluting the flame pattern, just have the barrel polished, then apply a vinyl flame pattern around the barrel, and bead-blast the barrel. Remove the vinyl, and walla! Polished flames on a bead blasted barrel!

[Slick8]

Pete Piper at Precision Barrel Works northwest of Houston can do it.

[Outlaw442]

kampfield customs maybe they do bolt fluting. What are you looking to do? I have seen a diamond pattern but not sure who did it.

He said barrel, but I fluted the bolt on my Winchester 70 Laredo. It was sharp lookin. The guys at the shop flipped out when i put my bolt on the machine. Then when done they recanted

[berettadave]

A friend of mine who's a gunsmith in Lagrange showed me a gun of his that had a spiral fluted barrel. He said someone in Houston fluted it. I'll try to find out who did it.

[RingSteel]

Not my picture, but here is an idea on how polished flames could look on a bead blasted barrel.

[Bily Lovec]

you can do it

[berettadave]

you can do it

Now that's what I call "custom"!!lol

Dave

[312InchMagnum]

Lol

[The Manager]

anyone else have any ifo on this? I am looking for the same information.