I had an idea of how the gun should look. I didn't draw it out or use much of any measuring. I'm not much of a machinist. A real machinist would cringe watching me work. After completely breaking down the gun I clamped it down in the mill and started my first cuts. At this pointed I didn't realize you could mount the body at different degrees to get angled cuts, hence the zig zags.
The first cuts went smoothly but slowly. I was quicker on the sencond side.
After some cleanup the gun started too look a bit better.
At this point I was mostly done with the mill and went to work with hand tools. There is a bit of a gap between the mill cuts and the final shape of the body below. Note the lower tube wing at the rear. That was due to a mistake I made cutting too closely. I scrapped that section and the wing started to take shape.
All in all, the milling only took a few hours, maybe 10. It may seem like a lot but I was a beginner and wanted to err on the side of caution. Slow and steady wins the race right? I used significantly more time with hand tools. Files, some light dremel work, sandpaper to get the body where I wanted it. I did leave some tooling marks thatI couldn't quite get out. Then it was off to anodizing for a bronze finish.
I was very impressed with the ano finish. I was hoping the tooling marks would get taken care of but you could still faintly see them. Fortunately they were hidden in hard to see places. As time went on I acquired different parts to finish off the gun.
Initially I had an Empire balanced valve but could not get it to function properly. I ditched in favor of a Lucky AAV.
More changes would come. Even the Lucky AAV wasn't up to snuff so I went back to a standard valve with an Eigenram. I swapped back to a stock bolt which I cut and shaped to match the back. I ran across a 15 degree ASA and put that in place of the Evil front block.
Here's another full shot of the finished product.
The name Gungnir comes from Norse mythology. It was Odin's spear which never missed its mark. It was a great project, if a bit time consuming. I learned I didn't have the patience to be a real machinist. This was the only gun I did in this fashion.
