Another group of graduates coming to an area near you! Cameron Lydyard, Nick McDaniel & Chris Trujillo finished their 14 months today and will be going on to build their talents at new outfits.
Are you interested in becoming a gunsmith? Check the link in our bio and come swing by for a tour.
Happy 6/5 day! Check out some cool project rifles (in 6.5mm/2.64 Cal) our students are building for themselves on @defiancemachine actions. If you want to become a gunsmith, check our link in bio and give us a call!
Pics 1&2- Steven Gomez chambers his project rifle in the classic long range .260 Remington cartridge.
Pics 3&4- Gavin Robbins gets to cutting the chamber for his slick 6.5 PRC!
Pics 5&6- Evan Brohamer shows off his awesome 6.5 PRC with a well machined, recessed crown.
Pic 7- James Ro taking measurements from his blank before he chucks its up in the lathe. This one will be a 6.5 Creedmoor.
Pics 8&9- Ayden Harr checking the functions on his 6.5 Creedmoor he just torqued, test fired & crowned.
Here at the Colorado School of Trades, we don`t just work on Grandpa`s old .22. We specialize in learning the relationship between parts, customizing firearms, and paying homage to pieces of history like what`s pictured here.
Doug Fair, one of our students in Design & Function customized his Robinson Armament M96 Expeditionary Rifle. Inspired from Eugene Stoner`s Stoner-63 rifle, Doug performed an entire safety check, ensured safe headspace and test fired this gun all in our facility!
After that, he decided to get creative with some @cerakote for the furniture and now has an awesome shooter. Check out the link in our bio to become a gunsmith today.
Did you know that our students work on customer firearms? Spend nearly 4 months servicing real customer guns; ranging anywhere from Grandpa`s .22 to a real Waffen marked Luger.
Earn your Associate Degree of Occupational Studies specializing in Gunsmithing in just 14 months! Check out the link in our bio for more information and click the contact button to connect with admissions.
*NONE OF THE ITEMS PICTURED ARE FOR SALE. WE DO NOT CONDUCT SALES AT ALL.
Rather than fit and repair faux stocks for a grade, we employ real world application to the classroom. Pictured here, @maddie.broberg has been given the task of splicing a piece of walnut to an existing stock.
She`ll then shape and finish the rear portion to match the contour of the corporal and comb lines.
Although wood stocks aren`t as desired as they used to be, stock repair is becoming more and more common.
Earn your Associate Degree of Occupational Studies specializing in Gunsmithing (in just 14 months) by inquiring today! (720) 376-6665
Here at CST, we take a more "hands-on" approach to learning. This is accomplished by having our students build many of their own tools and fixtures by hand or on machines
As is seen here, our students make their own lathe bits using high-speed steel blanks. They use grinders to shape, make relief cuts, and remove facets. They`ll use these bits to turn, face, and thread many projects during machine shop.
In Machine Shop, spend 15 weeks on manual lathes and mills as well as experience an introduction to CNC operation.
In addition to servicing firearms and checking for safety, we take customization very serious here at CST.
Two of our graduates, @whiley.brian & @allred.rileyy took a 1911 and a Hi-Power style pistol and took it the whole nine yards. These customizations go leagues beyond the typical armorers jobs. We instill frame crushing, slide lapping, grip modifications, barrel bushing fitting, stippling, engagement surface polishing & sight installation just to name a few.
Are you interested in becoming a gunsmith? Take the next step towards your future and visit http://schooloftrades.edu
*NONE OF THE ITEMS PICTURED ARE FOR SALE. WE DO NOT CONDUCT SALES AT ALL.
A little black-and-white is always "classic". Our friends over at @defiancemachine feel the same.
This Saturday, April 6, 2024 @colorado_school_of_trades @ofmountainsandmenministry & @milehighhuntexpo will raffle a complete rifle build! Pick your cartridge and build your dream hunting rifle!
*100% OF PROCEEDS GO TO @ofmountainsandmenministry CHARITY TO GET YOUNG MEN OUTDOORS!
@defiancemachine & @hawkins_precision have both donated key components to this build, providing an action and bottom metal.
Rifle Components:
Defiance Classic Action
Hawkins Precision DBM Hunter
Proof Research Carbon Fiber Barrel
Pure Precision Altitude Stock
TriggerTech Primary Trigger
Machining, barreling & Cerakote provided by CST
*This raffle item is available only to attendees of the A Night for Conservation on April 6, 2024. Contact @milehighhuntexpo for information to attend.
*NO ITEMS ARE FOR SALE ON INSTAGRAM OR META PLATFORMS. DONATIONS AND RAFFLE TICKETS CAN ONLY BE COLLECTED AT THE SHOW.
This weekend!! Don`t miss us at the @milehighhuntexpo Friday, 4/5 through Sunday 4/7.
4/5- 12PM-8PM
4/6- 9AM-6PM
4/7- 9AM-4PM
Be sure to swing by our booth #315 and check out the cool stuff we do!
@ofmountainsandmenministry will be sharing our booth with us, be sure to swing by and meet a very important 501C3!!
Here at CST, our Gunsmiths develop talents beyond the bench.
Isaac McNett, a graduating student decided to add some amazing artwork on his project rifle stock. By combining his creativeness, work ethic, and skill sets, Isaac used a wood burner in free-hand style to etch the contour of the Idaho mountains on his black walnut stock. He also included intricate paw prints, wildlife landscape & borders.
This type of skill is just one of the many "outside-the-norm" abilities to learn. Specializations is a time to hone in on where our Gunsmiths focus their talents. Whether you want to learn jeweling, muzzle porting, or even inletting and shaping a wood stock from a blank, you can do it all here.
Thank you all for coming out to the @huntexpo !! To earn your Associate Degree of Occupational Studies and become a gunsmith, please reach out for more information on our website. (See link in bio)
Admissions- (720) 376-6665
Combine all of these skills while you repair 38 customer firearms and graduate in 14 months!
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Come see us this weekend at the Western Hunting Expo in Salt Lake City, UT! Stop by our booth, #4662 and meet our staff at the Salt Palace. The Expo starts tomorrow 2/15 and runs through Sunday, 2/18.
Take control of your education today and inquire for more information on our website - schooloftrades.edu
1575 Hoyt St Denver, CO 80215
(720) 376-6665
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@realavid thanks for the Christmas goodie package sent to us this week. The tools started getting used about 5 minutes after getting opened 😅 The last photo is what we looked like opening the package
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Huge thank you going out to our friends @cerakote for coming out and training the students and staff. Not a lot of places can say that almost all of their staff have been trained by these guys.
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Always fun to have the @glockinc trainers out for an armorer’s course. Also check out those slick new tables in the class room 👀
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Ryan Lawrence built this 1911 and added on the Color Case Hardening with help from our buddies at Gunsmith at Large offer. Wowza, look at this gun!
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Love getting visitors here at the school! The first mock ups of content are looking awesome and we are rolling full steam ahead! Glad Gavin and Kyle from @ultimatereloader are here with us.
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September 12, 2023 John Wayne was joined in heaven by our beloved Gary Schlomer. Gary was first and foremost a family man and a man of god, a retired United States Navy Officer and a hero to many. Throughout Gary’s 41 year career at the Colorado School of Trades he imparted not only his passion for firearms upon thousands of students but he also kept many of us on the rails. Countless graduates are using a trick or two in shops this very moment that were taught to them by Gary. Whether you remember his prayers prior to a Thanksgiving or Christmas potluck, his passion for the Mauser rifle, his diving stories or his cowboy hat please take a moment to remember the loss of a legend.
Please help us remember Gary by sharing your most memorable “Gary moments” below
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Sean Archangelo pulled out all the stops on his project rifle. A nice hot salt blue on the barreled action, nitre blued bolt, jeweled bolt and topped it off with classic wood stock.
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