the milling attachment on a small lathe ( e.g. << http://www.varmintal.com/milling.jpg >> )
and built a copy of his Macgyver index gear/disk/stopper cutter.
By Brownian Motion on the Macro_YouTube scale I happily just found his
generous tutorial that even those advanced in years can follow
and appreciate.
I know some will be able to extrapolate the set up for unlimited
creative creations. Milling exotic shapes and cutouts on cylinders, disks,
tubing.
<< http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation ... ygh6gmlC0Y >>
Though one might think that they are constrained by a table top lathe, in the 1960's NRA Gunsmithing book
I was inspired by an Alabama gunsmith's write up in a lengthy article on surprisingly how much gun work he did with his Atlas 618
and its milling attachment, leaving his larger lathe was for production work.
One need be limited only by imagination.