Rear Serrations on the slide

ej45 · 02-02-2004, 03:10 PM

How does a gun smith cut rear serrations on the back of the slide to match sight serrations? Is this done with a serration file or is it possible to machine cut these with a mill on a convex surface?
Thanks Erik

Ken Mays · 02-03-2004, 01:00 PM

You could do it either way but I feel that doing it by hand would be much faster than trying to set it up on a mill.

Milling the serrations would be tricky if you wanted to follow the contour of the rear of the slide.

dfariswheel · 02-03-2004, 04:24 PM

Because of the difficult setup and radius problems, most people cut these by hand with a steel checkering file .

Since this isn't checkering, just very fine grooves, this is much easier than checkering, and isn't hard as long as the lines are kept square with the slide.

02-02-2004, 03:10 PM	#1
ej45 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 29	Rear Serrations on the slide How does a gun smith cut rear serrations on the back of the slide to match sight serrations? Is this done with a serration file or is it possible to machine cut these with a mill on a convex surface? Thanks Erik

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02-03-2004, 01:00 PM	#2
Ken Mays Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 119	You could do it either way but I feel that doing it by hand would be much faster than trying to set it up on a mill. Milling the serrations would be tricky if you wanted to follow the contour of the rear of the slide.

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dfariswheel Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 1,418	Because of the difficult setup and radius problems, most people cut these by hand with a steel checkering file . Since this isn't checkering, just very fine grooves, this is much easier than checkering, and isn't hard as long as the lines are kept square with the slide.