How to stress me out.... Mill work request

[AllenM]

Things ppl shouldn't do to me....

Let me stat off by saying yes I am patting myself on the back here and I know I made this harder then it needed to be,
But the thought of messing up a $1000.00 slide doing something new had me nevious.

This slide showed up in the mail from a builder I do work for with no warning of what it was and what he wanted.

Turned out to be a Caspian Damascus slide with a request for SVI style Diamond serrations.

The slide





The request






On the mill I am a hobbyist, not a machinist, I have no CAD program, the programming I do is done at the mill.

So to figure out angles, bit size, spacing, feed and speed etc, took me a while and some trial and error.
Then make a left and Right side pattern and do it on a hard to replace slide, that was stressful.

Soo..

Worked up a program using a 5/64" cutter.

After some trial and error came up with something I liked.



Finally got up the nerve today to transfer this to the slide.

This video is sped up 30x.... I exaggerated the length cuts so I could run these serrations across a long dust cover frame later if I wanted to.









I am feeling pretty good about it right now


Thanks for looking

 

[zoglog]

Beautiful work as always!

 

[bgcatty]

Simply amazing! But not simple to do for sure! Well done Allen!

 

[Rookie]

That is beautiful. It takes some nerve and confidence to do something like that "by hand".

 

[jsx1043]

That’s gonna be a heckuva BBQ gun! Nice work Allen.

 

[Bennettjh]

Great work, as usual!

 

[bmbutch]

Simply amazing!

 

[AllenM]

Thanks, I wasn't sure I would be able to pull it off

 

[d.kaufman]

 

[Bugzilla]

And here I thought this was going to be about Actaeon277 leaving retirement and heading back to the mill!
Nice work!

 

[patience0830]

Party darned smart for a body man, you are.

 

[MindfulMan]

Good stuff !

 

[actaeon277]

And here I thought this was going to be about Actaeon277 leaving retirement and heading back to the mill!
Nice work!

I would say... NO WAY!
But, with inflation and the economy...

 

[DocIndy]

Man... I've been thinking about a Damascus slide for my next build.... Now I just need to figure out what caliber 2011 its going to be....

 

[Walking Bear]

Very nice indeed