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2/3 Scale Model Uzi in 25 acp
This is my last scale model firearm made by Raymond Hutchens and I think it might be one of his most amazing. I think he just wanted the challenge of making a stamped sheet metal gun. Bear in mind that he had to make all of the dies to have the metal pressed into the various parts. Of course the gun itself is beautifully finished much more so than the actual gun. The gun is a semi auto ( serial # SA1 ) and reduced in chambering from 9mm to 25 acp. Mr. Hutchens was not only an amazing machinist but also an incredible gunsmith. Enjoy and I added a few pictures of Mr. Hutchens at work in his basement machine shop. That's a Highway Patrolman in the last pic for size comparison.
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06-10-2017, 08:44 AM
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here are some more pictures.
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a few more detailed shots.
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That is amazing workmanship. You have a great collection Brace.
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06-10-2017, 09:08 AM
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That is amazing. Have you ever shot it?
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My goodness you're on the verge of torture here. You should only be allowed to post one of these a week! So you've got two RMs, a luger, 1894 Winchester, an Uzi.... let me guess the 1911 is next?
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Unbelievable ......
Unreal.....
And green with envy i say .... Thank You for sharing your collection.
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Wow is all I can say.
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06-11-2017, 09:31 AM
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That is incredible! I don't know what I was expecting when I opened this thread, but I definitely wasn't expecting to be mind-blown by it. Wow...
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06-11-2017, 11:46 AM
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Bill,
I imagine the time to make such treasures is considerable! Any idea how long it would take him?
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I wonder how He molded plastic for the forearm and grip ?
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06-11-2017, 01:33 PM
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Larry, I know that some of his most complicated pieces (cased Borchardt carbine with all accessories) could take up to a year to produce.I think he made around 60 or 70 pieces all together.
jpage, I have no idea how he made the molded plastic pieces. I don't know how he made all the extremely small lettering or stampings. Did he make roll dies or stamp each tiny letter by hand ? Did he make each tiny screw and polish, thread and blue them? There are 23 tiny screws of varying sizes on the take down Winchester rifle!
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I spent several years in the machine shop, sometimes drilling holes as small as .007 dia., so I can appreciate the skill required to build these scale models. Beautiful work and craftsmanship. Thank you for sharing.
Have a blessed day,
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Raymond Hitchens was my great grandfather, I appreciate you sharing this, I can remember being a little kid and watching him work in his shop. I actually had the toolings, dies and fixtures that he made to make this Uzi until about two years ago. I had been sending them to different machinists around the country who would claim to be able to replicate it and were never successful, anyways I gave it to a guy in Mississippi and afterwards his contact information was lost when my phone broke and never had it saved on paper, been searching for him ever since. Anyways thank you for sharing, later this week I'll upload a bunch of pictures of guns that he made that I have copies of, liked seeing that book as well my mom gave me her copy of it and keep it around and love to look through it.
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Other countries have reputations for craftsmanship, but America has it in Spades.
A young man rented a room of my wife and I in the late 70's. His grandfather was one of the guys that would go camping with Ford, Edison, and that crowd of industrialists. On a camp out, they got to bragging about how small of holes they could drill. The bet was to drill a hole through a human hair! When it was time to settle up a microscope with a slide was used to look at the hair. It did have a hole cleanly drilled through it.... with a threaded bolt and with a nut through the hole!
Just for giggles I collect tiny drill bits, there are standard sizes smaller than a hair, I have seen dies for threading hairs! In fact the local hardware has a drawer of machine screws that are just bigger than hairs.
One time a friend of mine in High School, drew a 7/8 x 1 1/8 inch rectangle in the center of a sheet of typing paper, then wrote out his homework assignment in that rectangle with a mechanical pencil. Just to prove it wasn't that hard. He got a "B", due to sloppy hand writing!
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After 35+ years in machine shops of various stripes, I used to think I was at least pretty good at what I did. It is good for us occasionally to be humbled. My cap is doffed !
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Amazing work 
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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this.
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