Talon Wood Finished
Went with minwax ebony stain with many coats of linseed oil.
Grip is carved to a left hand config.
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One other way to do the custom molded grip, it to coat a minimally-shaped wood grip with bondo, squeeze it with your hand (rubber glove, release agent), and then let it cure.
When it’s cured you can sand down all the flash until it’s just finger grooves and such where you want them.
For the final finish, I would mix epoxy with grit and paint that on, it cures like a custom coated grip-tape paintjob.
Nicely done!!!!!
You sure that is a lefty grip?? looks to me the finger grooves are on teh left side of teh grip?????
Walter…
I see a wood grip and I want to paint it black
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted..painted black
black as night, black as coal
Hmm, hmm, hmmm, etc, etc.
yeah!
Beautiful work Sawtime, the shaping and finish are both spectacular!
That looks beautiful. I’ll tell you what, there aren’t many guns out there with custom wood grips that look as nice as yours. I think its something about the wood and the black aluminum frame just doesnt mesh well. But man, that dark wood looks great. I live in westchester, where do you get to shoot that thing around LAX?
looks sweet mate welldone
My wife has made hundreds of molds this way, and cast concrete garden statuary with them.
The only difference was she sculpted whatever she made molds of. Squeezing then trimming the clay would be no different but I think you would want to smooth it down a bit. I doubt all the creases in your hand translated to a grip would be a comfortable grip.
To give you an idea of what I mean. Her first statue was a big frog. When we poured the first concrete frog into that mold, it came out with her fingerprints molded into the concrete. All the fingerprints from the original clay sculpture was captured in the latex surface.
This is the poor-mans injection-type molding so to speak. You just have to work out the correct mold release for the media you are pouring, otherwise your mold is part of the cast permanently. Yea, been there. LOL
One thing to be aware of, after the first molding the latex gets a bit out of shape. It may take a try or two to get a perfect mold for your grip, but then the mold may become useless in time. If a generic fit is ok, you could cast hundreds from one mold. Your “perfect” fit would most likely be the first casting.
Riff –
have you ever done any castings with the above mentioned technique ?
I believe this could really take off !
a simple router duplicating machine could do the rough out on a chunk off wood, or a resin based grip would be just as nice.
Later-
sawtime
has anyone done such a thing ?
custom fitted gun grips, wow what an idea !!!!!!
carved the wood to make an exact mold to my hand.
What would be really cool is to take an impression of your hand and translate that to a wood grip, i.e. custom fit grips !
Very nice looking grip Sawtime.
Ive got an idea in the books that might serve you; squeeze a block of modelers clay into the impression you want. Trim the excess then layer it with Latex.
Let the latex cure, then cover it with either plaster or Bondo. Do one side at a time, you are making a mothermold for the latex.
After the mother is cured, break the halves off and peel the latex from the clay.
You now have a pourable mold to make a grip from. Of course, you cant do this with wood but hey, there are lots of good pourable epoxies and the like. 😉
That would give you the form to work from to make your new grip, or a good molded grip that needed inletting.
custom fit to my hand
carved the wood to make an exact mold to my hand.
What would be really cool is to take an impression of your hand and translate that to a wood grip, i.e. custom fit grips !
The curvature of the finger grooves looks pretty slick.
really nice work. turned out great 😀
SAW; Brilliant! Will you make another for sale? People want to know! AKULA
Gawd, that grip is a jewel.
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That’s what I thought too Walter. It looks like a right hand grip to me too. I must admit I’m not fond of wood on this particular gun. BUT that one looks very nice, very understated.