I've always wanted some match style grips for my 1377 so I made some.
I am no wood worker so I used Magic Sculpt (http://www.magicsculp.com/) two part epoxy putty made for model makers. I'd read about target pistol shooters modifying their fancy grips with fillers and rasps so I thought why not just make the whole grip with it. Basically I mixed up some Magic Sculpt, put some bits on the stock plastic grips, and squeezed my hand over the putty. This formed the basic shape, and then and sculpted the grips for smoothness and aesthetics. Magic Sculpt can be smoothed with water when uncured, and after curing, it sands nice and smooth.
The grips aren't quite done yet, of course. I'm trying to decide between a truck bed liner spray, or just a flat black enamel.
Very nice!
That is a really cool idea. :-* It may turn into a project in the near future. Keep us posted on how the grips turn out.
Very much cool .... :-*
Formed fitted to your hand, what a concept. Nice ;)
Very nice concept and execution.
Looks great. I was going to try this with JB Weld plastic-weld, but will look into magic sculpt.
JMJ
Excellent idea. RC
I like your grip. I have done similar with other guns.
That's a heckuva first post!
Quote from: oconeedan on July 20, 2015, 05:42:20 AM
I like your grip.
That's a heckuva first post!
+ 1 :-*
Thanks everyone. They weren't hard to make and it is a definite improvement over the stock grips.
Quote from: Apachexmd on July 20, 2015, 09:12:11 PM
Thanks everyone. They weren't hard to make and it is a definite improvement over the stock grips.
You may be too modest. Some sort of magic in how you split the grips left and right sides?
BRILLIANT!!
SPIDER
Awesome job on the grips very nicely done! :-* :-* :-*
You could be on to something really cool! I may have to try this, too! :-*
Quote from: twigboy on July 21, 2015, 03:33:38 AM
You may be too modest. Some sort of magic in how you split the grips left and right sides?
I didn't take any pictures of the process, but I wrapped the grip frame with some plastic food wrap (saran wrap). The stock grips were then just held in place. Then the putty was added and shaped; the putty kinda held everything together. Then I split the halves carefully with an X-acto knife trying not to distort the contours too much. The plastic helped keep the putty from sticking to the grip frame but in hindsight, talcum powder would have worked better (it's what the Magic Sculpt people recommend to use as a sort of "mold release").
Then it was just a matter of letting everything cure before final shaping and sanding.
Cool way to make custom grips!! Oh, a bit of into on the truck bed liner sprays, I've tried two on different builds, neither lasted long at all. I even tried that flex - seal plumbing spray advertised on TV...even worse than bed liner. Just wanted to give you a heads-up.
nice idea
I made my own grips that way a while back. I used black Apoxie Sculpt, did not have to paint. They also sell it in different colors such as bronze,white ,black, light gray, flesh, and pink