Glocks and 1911s

[MW surveyor]

Never sure of just where to post something like this.

[Bill K]

"jmb"?

[CJB]

John Mos'

[Bill K]

John Mos'

Thanks. I'm obviously not a big 1911 fan else I would have known that.

[Bawanna]

Never sure of just where to post something like this.

I absolutely love this. Gotta figure out how to make that a screen saver or a poster for my cubicle.

Boggles my mind the stuff John Moses Browning did in his life. Genius.

[CJB]

Thanks. I'm obviously not a big 1911 fan else I would have known that.

Be gone, oh Devil spawn!!!!







(just kidding!~)

[CJB]

Boggles my mind the stuff John Moses Browning did in his life. Genius.

Curt Gentry's book, JMB's biography, was contributed not only by his own research, but by Val Browning, JMB's son, and other family members. You have to realize that the work Browning did was not by micrometer and drafting paper, but on odd scraps, string, scaled up cutouts of parts made of paper, rotating on thumbtacks, and the like. There's more than a few stories in the book about being asked how big to make a part - like a bolt or slide - and JMB would just hold up his fingers and say "about this big". The shop workers at FN loved him, because he didn't talk down to them, and spoke "in inches, not thousandths".

[mluikey]

I'm traveling to Utah in two weeks. Hope to visit the shrine of Mr Browning.

[Bawanna]

I've heard of the museum that has his little workshop. To do what he did with the tools of the day as quickly as he did never ceases to amaze me.

Of course most of his prototypes were rough and unrefined but they worked and only required a little spit and polish on the assembly line.

Hard to duplicate today even with all the computer machines we have today.

[mluikey]

Yes I agree, I read a book about him not too long ago. He was a man before his time. I will take lots of pictures B and post them for you.

[Bawanna]

You rock my friend. Can't wait to see em.

[chrish]

To do what he did with the tools of the day as quickly as he did never ceases to amaze me.

I've often thought that same thing about JMB and other folks like Sam Colt.

Just think what they'd say if they saw a CNC machine. I bet they'd wet themselves at the possibilities. Kinda like Lucas getting CG, then again, that didn't turn out so well. But I have to think it'd be different for the gun guys.

[wyntrout]

I'm still waiting for my own "Replicator" to make me stuff... anything!

Wynn

[DeaconKC]

I think JMB's greatest ability was that he wasn't so egotistical that he wouldn't re-design something to make it better. Look at the series of pistols that led up to the 1911. Or his numerous shotgun changes that resulted in those great guns.

[AJBert]

Curt Gentry's book, JMB's biography, was contributed not only by his own research, but by Val Browning, JMB's son, and other family members. You have to realize that the work Browning did was not by micrometer and drafting paper, but on odd scraps, string, scaled up cutouts of parts made of paper, rotating on thumbtacks, and the like. There's more than a few stories in the book about being asked how big to make a part - like a bolt or slide - and JMB would just hold up his fingers and say "about this big". The shop workers at FN loved him, because he didn't talk down to them, and spoke "in inches, not thousandths".

I need to read this book.