More help please

[bisleyjohn]

I am someone who, learning by my mistakes, ‘messes’ with machinery rather than a machinist. I have offered to (try to) make a foresight for a friends Pedersoli Kuchenreuter. He, naturally, is reluctant to pay ten times the cost in postage of one from TOW. Can anyone tell me what angle cutter I need for the dovetail slot please?

 

[LawrenceA]

60 degree. You will find generally it is easier and quicker to file with a triangular file with a safe edge.

 

[bisleyjohn]

60 degree. You will find generally it is easier and quicker to file with a triangular file with a safe edge.

Many thanks Lawrence.

 

[tenngun]

You can get a file for it, I just run a dremol with a stone over one side. A good hack saw you can cut them out almost as fast as a miller, almost, ah sort of, well not very long any way.

 

[bisleyjohn]

You can get a file for it, I just run a dremol with a stone over one side. A good hack saw you can cut them out almost as fast as a miller, almost, ah sort of, well not very long any way.

Thank you, I think, between you, you and Lawrence have shown me the way to go.

 

[LawrenceA]

You know.
As the foresight slot already exist.
Your mate could probably hammer a bit of wood into the slot and get a pretty accurate shape to measure the base of the sight.
Anyway food for thought.