Dovetail cutter???

[John Sabato]

The horizontal milling machine with the cutter you described certainly looks like a fine solution and doesn't look as fragile as that tiny dovetail cutter...

Originally Posted by postino

FWIW, back in'69 when I worked for Twin Industries Inc (an aerospace subcontractor) dovetails were cut by a pieplate-shaped cutter on a horizontal mill...the workpiece was clamped at the desired angle, and one side of the dovetail cut...then the piece was rotated and the opposite side cut...

Something like this...I don't know if that is how the Luger was done, but it is a quicker and safer method than a teeny tiny dovetail cutter...