An 'Artillery' Nambu and Lahti

[sheepherder]

The parts I need to finish the Luger rear sight and the barrel front sight blade for the Nambu are not available (to me), so I need to make my own...

In the meantime, I decided to resurrect an old 9mm barrel blank that I tried to make into a 6" barrel some thirty years ago...That's it in the pic, third one down...I needed to re-cut the front sight band with the rotary indexing head before I took the head off the mill...Bottom of the four barrels is the finished re-profiled 6" barrel, ready to go...I copied Ithacaartist's custom 6" barrel...

Second pic is cutting the feed ramp on that barrel...It is already chambered and extractor notch cut...

I'll start on milling a front sight blade for the Nambu next...

[sheepherder]

I had an eBay vendor renege on a sale, so I had to hunt down some parts I need elsewhere...I'm waiting for parts from three eBay/GB vendors, a Brownell's order, a Numrich order, and a Travers tooling order. Backorders galore!

I managed to get the front sight dovetail cut, and milled the 'scallops' for the rear sight. Not quite like the Luger artillery, but 'good enough'...

Next I need to drill out the Luger rear sight blade & base for an inch pin (no Metric available) and drill a dimple for the re-drilled base setscrew (inch again, no Metric available).

For all practical purposes, the barrel itself is done. I do need to mill a front sight blade and press it in place, and then mill it to shape. That will come next.