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I’m in the process of opening a small machine shop as a second job. The vast majority of my machine experience is firearm related having gunsmithed full time for 10 years. I just bought a nice Bridgeport milling machine and I’m thinking small as a way to get started and earn back a little of my investment. I remember one poster sometime back commenting on a post I made about making a new Patridge front blade for my 1926 Hand Ejector. I said I whipped one up on my lunch break and he said he’d been waiting on one for 6 months.
Would there be any market for front sight blades for revolvers here? What would you guys prefer? I can do gold bars, gold beads, plain black of course, as well as dots of any color paint you want though I prefer not to use paint due to durability issues. Any height you would want would be easy as well as having the ability to make a narrower or wider blade. I would like to start out with pin in type blades, though I have made interchangeable blades for the Ruger Super Redhawk style and that wouldn’t be a problem. Finish would most likely be rust blue and serration is something that would be available as well. What would you guys who might be interested be willing to pay for something like this?
I’m really just testing the waters to try and stay in the gun business at least a little bit because it’s something I enjoy. I’m not looking to make a living on sights but I will be serious about quality as well as prompt delivery.
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For me it is 0.10" wide, the face canted 20 degrees from vertical and serrated. David Clements and Alan Harton have made mine.
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Back in the good old days before trifocals, I preferred a black Patridge blade for about everything. Now days that works fine for punching paper in good light, but for most field conditions that involve sighting against darker backgrounds, I'm liking some kind of fiber optic, white dot or gold bead. I'm also needing a narrower blade to be able to see any light between the blade and notch.
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Red ramp, gold bead, tritium, fiber optics.
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What I'd like to see is someone offering a steel ramp (no red insert) screw-on sight that fits the 10.5" barreled Super Blackhawk in a width that matches the factory rear notch so that you could have a snag-free hunting sight instead of the undercut silhouette target sight. (Something akin to the S410N or KS410N sight 'cept for a heavy barrel.)
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McGivern bead patridge sight is my favorite.
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Agreed on the gold bead partridge sights. have bought a bunch of older S & W's this year, and for old eyes the plain black blades can definitely be improved. Whereabouts are you located?
Thanks, Tim
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I’m in SW Oklahoma Tim. I don’t have an ffl so would have to work from a set of measurements. Bright side is postage will be cheap.
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For me it is 0.10" wide, the face canted 20 degrees from vertical and serrated. David Clements and Alan Harton have made mine. Perfection. Period.
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