To those who swage, and who might have interest in making their own dies, punches, and tooling for their home swage press, hopefully i can give you some ideas of what to do and what not to do. bullet swaging: draw die housing part 1. bullet swaging: draw die housing part 2. if you are into making your own tooling for your bullet swage press. Corbin has a book on how to make swaging dies. it's out of print but book resellers have it at times. castboolits.gunloads has a swaging forum that has pics and experiences of guys making their own swaging dies. it doesn't seem that hard. you can grind a spoon yourself to form the bullet or buy a reamer made to your specs.
Bullet swage die making tutorial. well sort of i thought i would throw together a short and to the point step by step process that i use to make my swage dies to help those who are still scratching their heads on their own swaging system. for step #1 i always start out by annealing my die material so that it is a lot easier to machine and is. Lee makes swaging dies for cast bullets that would take the same basic machinery and processes as making dies for jacketed bullets. they used to make a press and dies for 1 2 and 3 4 jacket bullets that are no different than a fully jacketed bullet in process, but they haven't made them in years. Seems that making derimming dies, core swaging dies, core seating dies are not too difficult. however, the bullet forming die is the most difficult. some recommend having them edm'd, others have made them with a d bit or spoon bit. still others have recommending lapping them with every thing from wooden dowels to cast iron rods. thanks,. Dies. now it’s time to break out the blackmon jacket swaging die set. as you can see, it consists of two components, a die and a punch. similar to the lee lube and sizing system, this jacket swaging die works by pushing a spent 22lr casing up through a steel cylinder which unfolds the rim, straightening and lengthening the case.
Seems that making derimming dies, core swaging dies, core seating dies are not too difficult. however, the bullet forming die is the most difficult. some recommend having them edm'd, others have made them with a d bit or spoon bit. still others have recommending lapping them with every thing from wooden dowels to cast iron rods. thanks,. Dies. now it’s time to break out the blackmon jacket swaging die set. as you can see, it consists of two components, a die and a punch. similar to the lee lube and sizing system, this jacket swaging die works by pushing a spent 22lr casing up through a steel cylinder which unfolds the rim, straightening and lengthening the case. Step 5: using lead wire or cast cores, form the cores by swaging them to the appropriate weight in the core swage die for the bullet you want to produce when the jacket is added. i’ve settled on 60 gr. bullets. any imperfections in the core will be forced out and excess lead will be pressed through bleed holes in the die. By other pioneers of bullet swaging: people like ted smith, who founded the old sas dies in the 1950™s; harvey donaldson, who experimented with some of the first dies to make .224 bullets from fired .22 cases; walt astles and ray biehler, who developed the principle of upward expansion and the two die swage tech.
Step 5: using lead wire or cast cores, form the cores by swaging them to the appropriate weight in the core swage die for the bullet you want to produce when the jacket is added. i’ve settled on 60 gr. bullets. any imperfections in the core will be forced out and excess lead will be pressed through bleed holes in the die. By other pioneers of bullet swaging: people like ted smith, who founded the old sas dies in the 1950™s; harvey donaldson, who experimented with some of the first dies to make .224 bullets from fired .22 cases; walt astles and ray biehler, who developed the principle of upward expansion and the two die swage tech.
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