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Originally Posted by John Sabato
Here is an article on how to make one using cutting inserts that you can adapt to the size you want to cut.
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thanks for your reply, John! My mail tooling distributor, Travers
http://www.travers.com/ sells just such a dovetail cutter...for very large dovetails...like lathe & mill ways...which looks like what your pic is...
Anything as small as a Luger front sight dovetail cutter is beyond my patience to make from scratch...Just too small...
I thought someone mentioned about a year ago that there was a vendor who sold dovetail cutters of that size...I think it is 55º instead of 60º...but with a slot that small, the 5º difference is unnoticeable...
If I had the cutter, I could re-use a Luger or P38 sight...Otherwise, I have to make the sight in-place, from scratch...
I do have small safe files, but the edges are pretty rounded...I might have to buy a couple new files...
I might try that first...Since the .245" cutter is bigger, it would cut away any filing mistakes...
Edit: Hmmmm...Here's a place...Not the Luger Metric cutter, but the 3/16" cutter with multiple passes should work...
http://www.harveytool.com/products/p...vetail+Cutters
I need to check the CD and confirm the angle...It's not given in degrees...have to drag out my trig tables and actually [gasp!] do some basic trigonometry...
...Or I could hold up a Luger sight to my thread gage and eyeball it...
Edit2: I eyeballed it to my 60º thread gage...It ain't no 60º...
OK; I did the math...It works out to 41º from the CD prints...
I may just go ahead and make my own sights...
Edit3: Harvey Tools makes a 40º dovetail cutter...
http://www.harveytool.com/products/p...&category_id=1
All is right in the world...
