Making a .45 Luger

[John Sabato]

Mr. Romo, the Principal behind Orimar Inc., who is the current manufacturer of Stainless Steel Lugers, has had a .45 caliber Luger on his drawing board (or CAD screen) for a number of years now... if HE can't easily produce one (and I understand that there are differences between making ONE and tooling up for production)... after being in the Luger manufacturing business for more than a decade or two, I don't think that making one out of two donor Stainless Steel Lugers is a job for anyone but a MASTER Machinist/Metalurgist/Engineer/Gunsmith...

Let's not forget that creating a working firearm is more than just creating parts with the appropriate dimensions and shapes... there is a lot of dangerous pressure in the receiver of a firearm, and appropriate hardness and heat-treating is required to make such a one-of-a-kind gun safe to shoot.

Your friend may have just completed a .38 Special Gattling Gun project, but I would bet that it isn't something he did over a weekend, ... he probably worked on it for months if not years, unless he was following some ready-made project plans...

That is not the same as designing one from scratch...I totally concur with PoliceLuger... this is not a job for the feint of heart...