Make Your Own Fiberglass Gun Grips

Personalize your hand gun with abs plastic grips.

The main purpose of pistol grips would be to provide comfort, stability and control within the shooter's hands. Pistol grips also hold interiors in position so that they don't move once the gun fires. The grips would be the most easy to customize a part of a hand gun. By looking into making your personal abs plastic pistol grips, you are able to tailor the form, design and color of the grips to fit your personal style so that your gun is unique and it is unmistakably yours.

Instructions

1. Choose two colors of jeans or canvas material and cut them into strips, 2 " wide by 10 inches lengthy. You might need 15-20 strips as a whole. Layer the strips together inside a pile that's roughly 1/4 inch thick, alternating forwards and backwards colors.

2. Placed on the rubber mitts. Add resin hardener towards the abs plastic resin and blend having a stirrer. Look into the resin hardener label for that proper ratio of hardener to resin. For instance, some hardeners demand 14 drops per ounce of abs plastic resin 1/2 cup of resin is equivalent to 4 oz ..

3. Spread a 6-inch period of plastic wrap over among the flat boards. Allow the edges from the plastic wrap hang within the board. Spread abs plastic resin over the center of the plastic wrap, while using flat side from the stirrer, then lay lower the very first strip of fabric therefore the entire strip is drenched in resin completely towards the edges. Again, while using stirrer, cover the top strip in resin and lay another strip within the first. Continue covering each strip with resin, layer by layer. Work rapidly so that all strips are sandwiched between resin before solidifying starts. Make sure all strips are totally engrossed in resin.

4. Summary the resin-covered strips using the leftover plastic wrap hanging from the board. Put the second flat board within the wrapped fabric and sandwich it's together, clamping them between three C-clamps. Don't press it's so tight the resin flows out, but do apply even pressure over the boards. The aim would be to maintain 1/4-inch thickness from the gun grip layers throughout the solidifying process. Allow the abs plastic harden overnight.

5. Trace the outline from the old pistol grips to the hardened abs plastic block, and mark the screw holes having a fine tip black marker. Cut the block in two having a hacksaw, and cut away the surplus abs plastic as near to the tracked outline as you possibly can. Placed on a dust mask and finished shaping the outline from the grips having a disc sander.

6. Choose which side of every grip will probably be the bottom, along side it pressed from the frame from the pistol grip. Drill check your grip retainer screw holes within the drill press, using the topside from the grip face-up. Drill the retainer screw holes all the way through, drilling gradually therefore the abs plastic doesn't crack.

7. Shape the contour from the grips, while using disc sander. Across the topside from the grips so that they are thickest in the centre and taper toward the perimeters. This rounding motion shaves away layers of material enveloped within the abs plastic block to show a wood grain effect in the alternating colors of material.

8. Sand the topside from the grips, beginning with 100-grit sandpaper, then 200-grit, 300-grit and lastly 600-grit sandpaper to have an progressively softer texture. For any high-gloss finish, coat the grips with as much as three jackets of obvious memory and let remedy for 2 days.