I am still working on a Dutch Mannlicher and have a question, It has the military bolt with a round knob on the Is it possible to find and weld a MS flat handle on it?? This part of the project is a step above my pay grade.

Yes, you can. Might involve a little hand fitting. Brownells sells the 'butterknife' handles.

Of course, you can weld on any shape handle you want.
Problem is you will have to make one; Brownells stopped selling them years ago. I know of no one who is making them. Turn on your milling machine and carve away some steel.

That I can do "IF" I had a pattern I could copy.

I may have a few from Brownells and Don M... checking.. they are all gone... sorry

You don't need a pattern to copy; you look at a picture and make one like that. Free hand. That is the way I do it.
Dimensions become obvious within the area around which it has to work and fit.
Here is the way I make them; first turn a round bar in your lathe, tapered from about .75 or however wide you want the ball to be, to the diameter of your bolt handle stub.
Weld that on. Then mill the flats into it. Piece of cake. Chocolate.

I made a butterknife handle from a strap of quarter-inch-thick steel. I just heated and bent the strap slightly, then cut the piece to shape with an angle-grinder and files. I had no pattern, just looked at old MS rifles and copied the look. It may not be kosher but has never failed to work.

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Originally posted by Rolland:
That I can do "IF" I had a pattern I could copy.

I have a commercial M/S bolt which has been in a fire and has questionable heat treatment, but would work fine as a pattern. I'll be happy to lend it to you.

PM me your address and I'll send it out to you.

PM sent

I have one of those Brownell's "butterknife" bolt handles, let me know if you still need it

You might be able to forge the original bolt handle into the shape you want.

I highly recommend against that; forging takes too much heat and stress and I have seen them ruined.
Weld, mill, file. polish.
Of course you can do what you want; I am no one to discourage any technique. I wouldn't do it though.

Not much of a problem to protect the bolt body from heat—-several ways to accomplish that. Anyone can botch a job if they’re careless and/or lack knowledge.

Here's a good pattern to follow:

M-S

Shop around you can find one that just needs to be tigged on..NECG probably still makes them..Advertise for one here on AR classified..I would bother making one, that's for sure since they sell for about $6.00.

They might have sold for $6 in 1960, but now they are $42; look on that big on line auction site; there is a guy making them now.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
They might have sold for $6 in 1960, but now they are $42; look on that big on line auction site; there is a guy making them now.

And I just offered one to a guy on here for $20 and he said it was "not in his price range"