Barrel Drawings/blueprints

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by zombiedfens

Thanks Rick W and everyone else for the information. the only part im not very sure on it the machining of the from sight base into the barrel, any ideas on how that is done?

I use a rotary indexing head + tailstock with the barrel mounted horizontally and mill the band about every 6º (IIRC)...I use a radiused end mill and my usual barrel blank is like 1 3/16" dia...I dovetail a roughly machined front sight blank into the FSB and mill it in place.

I did a pictorial of a fantasy artillery barrel a year or so ago, showing the steps of the machining process...It's here somewhere...

Heh, heh - it was my first post, so easy to track down...

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=21048

I'm told there are other re-barreling/fabricating threads in the Archives here, but I don't know who posted them or the titles (you'll notice my title has nothing to do with machining) so i was never able to Search for them...

BTW: Harvey Tool makes a 40º x 3/16" dovetail cutter that should work well for cutting a dovetail for OEM Luger/Walther front sight bases...

http://www.harveytool.com/products/p...&category_id=1