Luger 45 ACP Project

[G.T.]

Hi to all! Making, with quality, any one part of a Luger is quite a task! The magazine is no different, only think different is the technique and materials... and, it is also, another assembly.. (more labor?) ... Eugene is using the very best material available to make his magazine shells heat treatable and strong.. 1095 annealed spring steel. (best springs, fine knives) if done correctly, they will be lifetime mags... Similar, and probably stronger than new Mec-Gar mags, and far, far better than any original Luger mag ever made!!!!
John Martz, God bless him, didn't have any constraints other than making it fit and work, made the mags as strong and simple as he could in his workshop with off the shelf materials.. and as no two pistols were ever the exact same, it was all custom work anyway!
What is important to remember is that whether Eugene is making 40 or 4000 the set up and time on task per unit is nearly the same... Once you have all in place, it is just a matter of how much self torture you can stand... The amount of work necessary to complete just one unit puts all of the project labor in a brutal perspective real quick.... Making one Luger part is a quest, two of the same, a task, 3 or 4 a job, and 10 or more a life sentence!!! ... Been there, done that.... ...
As I said before, go get'em Eugene... Best to you all, til....lat'r.....GT