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Originally Posted by Brickyee
You cut it straight using the undersized cutter and then go after the final shaping with a file.
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Originally Posted by Unclenick
Using the undersized cutter Brownell sells, followed by hand scraping only the last bit seems to me to be a good compromise, but others may work differently.
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Pretty close, except file verses scraper. I feel I have more control with the scraper, but that's individual. I did buy one of their full diameter cutters to try at one point, but didn't feel the fit was as solid.
Bad fixturing can cut the slide locking lug recesses in the wrong place, I suppose. A friend of mine described having to set up a barrel in a 4 jaw chuck on a rotary table to cut all the locking lugs back to fit one slide, but I haven't had the joy of that experience myself. Anymore, we just replace things, as a rule, but I expect he'd done the slide and frame fitting already and didn't want to lose that work. He'd tried the barrel in another slide and knew the fault was not there.