OlongJohnson
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I have some late pre-lock K frames with the rounded, torus-style (not Taurus-style!!!) crown. Stainless finish. All are police trades, so lots of little dings and nicks. It's on my list to touch up the crowns. I have the Brownells 45-degree piloted cutter and have gotten excellent results on 45-degree crowns, but am reluctant to use it on the torus-profile crowns, even just to touch up the ID. If it was just the beater 64s, I'd go ahead, but there's a 3-inch in the mix, and I don't want to do anything that would diminish it in any way. And if I solve that problem, the solution ports to all of them. And the price of the tooling gets divided by head count.
The goal is not a "target" crown, or just best possible accuracy (the 45-degree tool would do that), but to make it "right" - what S&W should have done in the first place and what would be nice if the intervening custodians had preserved. And what I want the next owners (perhaps in several decades) to be able to appreciate.
Pacific Tool and Gauge has small-, medium-, and large-radius crown tools, but no specs on the profiles. I've been frustrated trying to get tech info from their CS people previously, and thought I'd just ask here if anyone with experience can point me to the right tool for this job.
The goal is not a "target" crown, or just best possible accuracy (the 45-degree tool would do that), but to make it "right" - what S&W should have done in the first place and what would be nice if the intervening custodians had preserved. And what I want the next owners (perhaps in several decades) to be able to appreciate.
Pacific Tool and Gauge has small-, medium-, and large-radius crown tools, but no specs on the profiles. I've been frustrated trying to get tech info from their CS people previously, and thought I'd just ask here if anyone with experience can point me to the right tool for this job.
