Custom Pistol Grips?
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the 1911 is easy, the sig not so, I have done some, but just for my self, working on a set for Hi Standard Victor at the moment.
If you are not a wood worker, no tools ?, if you want to learn, go ahead.
you should have a band saw or fret saw, carving tools, spoke shave is handy. Also good quality rasps are a must1/2 rd
When you get into some if the semi auto 9mm, it is what is on the inside that is a pain, as the inside of the grips hold things togerther.
Then if you get this far , you should get some checkering tools
Main thing is take your time and don't rush.
If you think these are a evening job, you will mess up.
BTW, something I have found, cut your wood about 2 or 3 times longer than the grip, than you have something to clamp in a vice when your are working it.
Then just cut off what is not grip when done, I use tong oil or true oil
If you are not a wood worker, no tools ?, if you want to learn, go ahead.
you should have a band saw or fret saw, carving tools, spoke shave is handy. Also good quality rasps are a must1/2 rd
When you get into some if the semi auto 9mm, it is what is on the inside that is a pain, as the inside of the grips hold things togerther.
Then if you get this far , you should get some checkering tools
Main thing is take your time and don't rush.
If you think these are a evening job, you will mess up.
BTW, something I have found, cut your wood about 2 or 3 times longer than the grip, than you have something to clamp in a vice when your are working it.
Then just cut off what is not grip when done, I use tong oil or true oil
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If I kept at it for 1911, 3-4 hrs shaping , maybe 6 hrs checkering at 18 l/inch. When I work for myself, I don't keep hrs.
that is with hand tools , other than rough out with band saw.
I don't work fast and usually don't do a set start to finish, over 3-8 days , depending on time and ambition
winter time I may turn a set out in one sitting, checkering I can only do for 30 min. at a time, too hard on the old eyes
IF I was doing a complicated set like a P220, I would set up the router table for the inletting.
I was going to build a set of rosewood ( the real stuff) for my H-K P7 M13, but ended up buying a set, the inside of those are a nightmare, doable, but no room for errors.
Now that I think about it, the first one may have been for some Star Model f that I got from century arms for $25-30 each, with no grips or mags, I cranked those sets out in about 30 mins, just smooth.
took a lot longer to make the mags.
that is with hand tools , other than rough out with band saw.
I don't work fast and usually don't do a set start to finish, over 3-8 days , depending on time and ambition
winter time I may turn a set out in one sitting, checkering I can only do for 30 min. at a time, too hard on the old eyes
IF I was doing a complicated set like a P220, I would set up the router table for the inletting.
I was going to build a set of rosewood ( the real stuff) for my H-K P7 M13, but ended up buying a set, the inside of those are a nightmare, doable, but no room for errors.
Now that I think about it, the first one may have been for some Star Model f that I got from century arms for $25-30 each, with no grips or mags, I cranked those sets out in about 30 mins, just smooth.
took a lot longer to make the mags.
