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The Krieghoff Luger’s frame has more than 600 points where measurements are taken. A 13-pound forging is milled and broached down to a half-pound semi-finished frame. It takes 7.5 hours to reduce 20 to 25 pistol frames to this stage with the most modern production equipment. The rear cuts to hold the trigger sear flat spring proved a difficult problem to solve, as did many others in the 100-year-old design. This gun was not intended for easy modern production. Specialized broaches like the one used to cut the slide guides in the side of the frame had to be made. It should be noted that it is a huge financial undertaking to tool up to make the Luger or any other gun, and Krieghoff has not done that – nor could anyone – for a mere 200 guns. What they could do was machine it to a point that a master gunsmith could take over with his hand files and hand-make it the rest of the way in the same manner that Best Quality doubles are hand-filed from forgings provided by a blacksmith. Believe me, it is a long way to go. You are paying one of the world’s greatest gunsmiths to hand-make you a pistol just as he would hand-make a Best Quality double shotgun or rifle. You are getting every cent’s worth of the price. Indeed, Krieghoff cut profits to the bone on this tribute to their old friend the Luger. The guns are only sold direct to the customer without a middleman to keep the price below $20,000. This is a true labor of love by Krieghoff.