Tool to touch up Crown?
- Thread starter Andy
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Crown tool
I tried the round bolthead myself, and it seemed to work fine, though it wasn't pretty. I know that brownells has a crowning cutter, but it's expensive. Probably a lot cheaper to have a 'smith do it for you.
ErikT.
I tried the round bolthead myself, and it seemed to work fine, though it wasn't pretty. I know that brownells has a crowning cutter, but it's expensive. Probably a lot cheaper to have a 'smith do it for you.
ErikT.
Amusing story for you guntech. I like to run ridged cutting fluid through the barrel as I chamber. Whole lot easier on the reamer and it clears the chips so I can cut up till the last .100 inch then pull out the reamer, take a final measurement and make my finishing cut. I run the muzzle end of the barrel on a center with a hole drilled through it and the oil is forced through the headstock. To get a proper fit to keep oil from leaking and being sprayed on the floor I re-cut the centers with a 60 deg cutter same as In your photo. Had the same set of 3 cutters for over 20 years. Damned things never seam to get dull. JGS made em from M3 steel. Was ordering a reamer one day and the guy at JGS said they were having a sale on the large size 60 degree center cutting reamers. Asked him how that came about? Didn’t seam to make much sense to me. Well the guy said.” Knot headed customers buy them as a cheep but very effective way to re-crown and avoid taking their guns to a gunsmith”. But he said, “knot headed customers are not smart enough to run them between centers in a lathe or very carefully in a vice with a T handle”. “In the end knot headed customers try to run em in a ½ inch power drill and snap off the pilots on the delicate smaller sizes”. “Then” he said, “knot headed salesmen take the small sizes out of the sets and sell them until one day some one wants a whole set and all there is on the shelf are a bunch of box’s that only have the large sizes in them and no record of where or why all of the small sizes went to. “then knot heads like me have to ask knot heads like you if you would like to buy 20 of the large ones for $15 each!” “By the way”, he added. “Would you like to buy 10 458x2 reamers for $30 each?” “Some knot head convinced one of the knot heads in sales that it was going to be the next Marilyn Munro of cartridges about 15 years ago and guess what?” he he he. I must have been feeling sorry for the guy that day. To this day I have never used that 458x2 reamer and probably never will. 
) Rod
) Rod
