GW,
A couple of things I should mention. I keep using the term "we". That shop belongs to my father and he's the machinist. For me this was a way to kill 2 birds with one stone. I get to learn how to do some machining and own something that I can't buy but always wanted. It probably sounded a bit silly for me to say I wasn't a machinist but own a milling machine, lathe, CNC mill, and CNC lathe. Hopefully that makes more sense
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We briefly talked about lining the barrels but decided against it. I planned on hand loading for these from the get go so the heeled or hollow base bullets would work just fine. Also by using the barrel as is I could save some money by not having to buy a caliber specific reamer. We already had an ungodly amount of standard reamers so that pretty much made up my mind for me.
When we started converting these pistols we never really considered making new cylinders. We assumed it would be easier to just convert these. After having done the work we now know that we were mistaken. If I were to do it again I most definately would have made new cylinders for many reasons. I never thought about a rebated cylinder but now that you mention it I guess that would have been pretty neat. Thanks for mentioning that.
The ejector was a bit of a PITA but it turned out 10x better than I thought it would. I'm very happy with it and it should look and work just fine.
I encourage constructive criticism as long as it's not rude (which yours certainly wasn't). So far all of the feedback that I've had here and on another site has been very positive. That's not to say that someone hasn't look it over and thought they could or have done better. That's to be expected.
Thanks for the kind words and I'll keep you all posted as things progess.