Help with 5D lower

[slap shot]

A friend bought some 5D lowers and I was going to let him borrow my jig. Its an Ares Armor that I picked up about 10 years ago and milled various Mfg lowers. Anyway, the 5D lowers don’t fit, too wide at the front. These are made to work with their $350 jif with a router. Anyone run into this and found a normally priced jig that fits? I know you can mill without the jig but I’d rather not on my tabletop unit.

pics of regular mil spec lower and 5D.

 

[ReluctantDecoy]

Looks like a billet lower. They fattened up the mag area walls to accommodate a integrated flared magwell. By "integrated", I mean the flare is an interior bevel as opposed to a flared out (bell shape) of their forged lowers. The forged ones have the thinner, mil-spec walls. I would think this means you need their proprietary jig.

 

[BarnBuilder]

A friend bought some 5D lowers and I was going to let him borrow my jig. Its an Ares Armor that I picked up about 10 years ago and milled various Mfg lowers. Anyway, the 5D lowers don’t fit, too wide at the front. These are made to work with their $350 jif with a router. Anyone run into this and found a normally priced jig that fits? I know you can mill without the jig but I’d rather not on my tabletop unit.

pics of regular mil spec lower and 5D.


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I've got a 5D Pro Jig set up that you could use if that helps.

 

[slap shot]

I've got a 5D Pro Jig set up that you could use if that helps.

Amazing offer. Thank you. He was just telling me he’s going to try to get 2 friends to split the cost of one but this might really help. I’ll PM you soon.