My "Baby" is complete; baby luger that is!

[DonVoigt]

You fellows have heard bits and snippits of my project to build a compact or "baby" luger.

Well it arrived from a fresh re-finish by Charles Danner and am I a very happy camper!

First I must say thanks to all my friends and folks here who have helped me with the project.

I drew the plans and co-ordinated the work, did the easy parts myself. It is basically a mismatched Mauser luger with a 2.75" 9mm bull barrel upper and a 2.75" 7,65mm normal profile upper with the frame shortened 0.5" to 7 shot capacity.

Here is the list of who done it:

Barrels-9mm 2.75" bull - GT(Gerald Tomek);
7,65mm 2.75"- my friend and super machinist Steve Quinn

Frame- cut and welded by Neil Keller

Grips- Jim Solomon

Toggle scallop- Rich Brennan

magazine shortening- GT

Refinish- rust blue, straw, fire blue by Charles Danner

Without them it would still be an idea, a pile of pieces, and ugly!

The most difficult part for me was making and fine tuning the main spring- to work with the light and short 7,65mm barrel and with the short, but heavy 9mm barrel. This took me some weeks and a lot of use of the mainspring tool made also by Jim Solomon. I did all the test firing before finish so as not to damage the final finish.

The finished pictures are below. I do now wish I had started with a slick back frame and pieces with fewer pits. When I decided to build this, I didn't want to damage or destroy any pieces with significant value, so I chose mixed up and lesser quality parts.
Had I known how it would turn out, I'da done better choosing.

I'll be adding some posts with pictures of the work in process so all can see how the final piece came to be.