2/3 Scale Model Uzi in 25 acp

bracebeemer · Jun 10, 2017

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.
Bill

bracebeemer · Jun 10, 2017

here are some more pictures.

bracebeemer · Jun 10, 2017

a few more detailed shots.

bracebeemer · Jun 10, 2017

some more details.

moosedog · Jun 10, 2017

That is amazing workmanship. You have a great collection Brace.

eveled · Jun 10, 2017

That is amazing. Have you ever shot it?

Hoosier45 · Jun 10, 2017

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?

Qball · Jun 10, 2017

Unbelievable ......
Unreal.....

And green with envy i say .... Thank You for sharing your collection.

vonn · Jun 10, 2017

Wow is all I can say.

forindooruseonly · Jun 11, 2017

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...

boykinlp · Jun 11, 2017

Bill,
I imagine the time to make such treasures is considerable! Any idea how long it would take him?
Larry

jpage · Jun 11, 2017

I wonder how He molded plastic for the forearm and grip ?

bracebeemer · Jun 11, 2017

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!
Bill

Ole Joe Clark · Jun 11, 2017

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,

Leon

beneliot1984 · Jul 24, 2017

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.

Ivan the Butcher · Jul 24, 2017

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!

Ivan

lebomm · Jul 24, 2017

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 !

Larry

OLDSTER · Jul 24, 2017

Amazing work

CptCurl · Jul 24, 2017

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this.

Curl

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