[kitchen]

Get back to me when I can print a double square bridge titanium G33/40, shortened to function with a 3.0” C.O.L. Straddle floor plate with Oberndorf release. Holland style bolt handle with Wisner knob, Precision Metalsmithing or Satterlee 3 position safety, Mark X speedlock, and provisions to attach a Rigby cocking piece peep sight. Retain the tertiary gas port and delete the clip guide. All clearances and end-to-end run-out kept to 0.005” maximum after heat treating. Priced significantly less than $3.5k.

[MileHi]

Sounds like they are getting close to being able to “print” all the components of your mauser less the barrel. Not sure about heat treating but I think I read they can. Tolerances are pretty tight as well.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2915422/posts

[NVDave]

I’d say that DMLS can do that today - out of the materials you describe.

What you want is usually priced higher than your price point - Guild rifles with all that stuff run significantly more than $3.5K. The one outfit I know making a double square bridge Mauser receiver out of titanium is asking more than your price point for the action alone.

Price of printed objects would depend on the number of pieces, just as with all CNC production. Want one piece done on a CNC machine? The price is through the roof compared to a guy spinning handles on a lathe or Bridgeport. Want 100K pieces? Now there’s no contest between the technologies.

And cocking piece peep sights are just nonsense, BTW. Why would I want my rear sight to move? ;-) It looks trick and swank, but there’s little way to get all the slop out of the cocking piece and still have a reliable action. I saw a rifle awhile back with a rear quick-detach scope base that had a rudimentary flip-up peep sight, which I thought was quite functional. Hideously expensive, tho.