Be Patient Waiting On Reamers...

[DougGuy]

Dave Manson is swamped with work, he does all the resharpening, I sent a 9mm throater a couple weeks ago to be sharpened and I have no idea when it will come back, I was told a couple of weeks by the staff, not Dave, and he is so busy I can't even get a call back from him, so if you are awaiting a reamer, give it plenty of extra time. I will try and get an idea tomorrow, and may have to invest in a new reamer that is less time consuming to put the live pilot nose on to speed things up.

Don't get impatient and go order one from Brownell's, unless you are ordering the piloted reamer and the pilots. The solid nose reamer has a fixed pilot on it that is several thousandths smaller than the lands, you might as well not have a pilot at all, there is NO way to accurately center one of these in your barrel. You might as well just use a chucking reamer in a dewalt drill. About the same probability of accuracy = 50% at best.

Add to that Manson is the only one that sells the specific 9mm reamer I use for throating pistol barrels, you won't get one of these anywhere else.

You will always have better and more professional quality work done when the right tooling is used.

[PJEagle]

Doug,

Thanks for the update. I'll be glad to wait for your 9MM service.

[missionary5155]

Our 414 Supermag reamer only took 19 months. But then we were down here near the whole time so it was a none-issue.

[DougGuy]

JGS wants $185 + shipping both ways and 6mo lead time to resharpen carbide reamers that they made. They will sharpen PTG carbide, but they punish you for buying PTG when you want it sharpened!

I have given up trying to make throating hardened or nitrided barrels a workable situation. New carbide reamer is 2x or 3x the cost of HSS, takes months and months before delivery and only good for 10, maybe 12 barrels at the most before it begins to cut ragged and the diameter of the throat that it cuts starts shrinking.

Edit 2/15/2023: I still have a good sharp carbide throater for 10mm/40S&W, cuts a .402" freebore, so as long as this one is cutting good I will continue to offer throating of hardened barrels in this caliber only.

[DougGuy]

Doug,

Thanks for the update. I'll be glad to wait for your 9MM service.

The 9mm reamer has arrived from Manson being sharpened.