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Posted: 9/3/2010 9:49:03 PM EDT
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I tried this on my 1911, and nothing happened. Then it dawned on me that it's a mans gun, shooting a manly round, and considering I'm a man i can control recoil without soldering iron tricks.  The wrong tree, you're barking up it. http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=21607 Damnit you know what I meant. 
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Posted: 9/3/2010 10:00:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/3/2010 10:03:26 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I keep my thumbs forward. I do not twist the off hand thumb into the frame. The stippling job looks pretty good though. Right, and I don't want to either. I don't want to pressure the frame with that thumb, for the same reason I don't want to wrap fingers around the trigger guard. I don't want to influence the gun with movement. But I do want the thumb to stay in that particular spot, and I believe I've been putting pressure on it to try and keep it there. I'm hoping with a little texture, it will just rest there instead. |
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Posted: 9/3/2010 10:15:59 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I keep my thumbs forward. I do not twist the off hand thumb into the frame. The stippling job looks pretty good though. Right, and I don't want to either. I don't want to pressure the frame with that thumb, for the same reason I don't want to wrap fingers around the trigger guard. I don't want to influence the gun with movement. But I do want the thumb to stay in that particular spot, and I believe I've been putting pressure on it to try and keep it there. I'm hoping with a little texture, it will just rest there instead. Makes sense to me. I think I've always compensated by using my strong hand thumb to push down on the off hand thumb. It makes my thumb curve up a bit, but it stays in place pretty well. |
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Posted: 9/3/2010 10:36:34 PM EDT
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No blood, sweat or guts will make this slippery. Have you tested this theory with real blood, sweat and or guts? |
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Posted: 9/3/2010 11:43:22 PM EDT
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I was right with you till you did the tab under the slide. 
Other wise it looks well done. Thinking this exact thing... seems it might be practical, but it looks sloppy. Rest looks great though... Anyway, what matters is that you have better grip. |
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Posted: 9/3/2010 11:46:30 PM EDT
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I like what you have done with it.
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Posted: 9/3/2010 11:47:59 PM EDT
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Hell I like it.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 12:03:07 AM EDT
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GseriesFAL thinks you went full retard when you didn't buy a Glock
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Posted: 9/4/2010 12:06:56 AM EDT
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GseriesFAL thinks you went full retard when you didn't buy a Glock Well, he IS the expert in the field. |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 12:17:15 AM EDT
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No blood, sweat or guts will make this slippery. Have you tested this theory with real blood, sweat and or guts? And most blood is sticky, is it not? Unless the bleeder is on blood thinners, in which case it's like water. |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 12:26:57 AM EDT
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I own an M&P45 myself and am very wary of aftermarket "improvement kits." I don't use them on my Glock or any other gun.
The M&P trigger typically lightens up to 6 - 6 1/2 lbs. on its own after firing 1500-2000 rounds. This being the case, there is probably no need for an aftermarket kit simply to lighten the trigger pull. Some people send them to gunsmiths to shorten the reset and smooth out the trigger, but that's an issue you can't usually solve with an aftermarket kit. Anyway, just an FYI. |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 7:40:05 AM EDT
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Bump for day crews thoughts.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 7:43:32 AM EDT
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Dusty_C Ike_McGowan Dan_Gray is going to be jealous
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Posted: 9/4/2010 7:54:04 AM EDT
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Sweet pistol
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:15:50 AM EDT
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I think you need to throw in down your driveway to smooth it all out and start over again. J/K
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:17:00 AM EDT
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Now paint it pink.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:35:02 AM EDT
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You aren't finished with it until you have Dougwg put one of his sears in it and then do a complete serration treatment on the slide and get it recoated with Melonite.. Here's a vid of the slide with trainer Steve Fisher doing the talking in Doug's shop: http://www.tube-video.com/video/GGp5MGi_w7w/Top-serrations-wmv.html Yeah, I want that done to mine... OP - nice work. I stippled mine with a finer custom made point, but I know where you're going. Grips like crazy, makes followup shots stupid-easy. I did both entire sides of my frame though. The naysayers don't know what they're talking about... This is the way to go. I'm a 1911/SIG guy who loves his M&Ps... They're really the best of all worlds. Steve turned me on to them and I resisted as long as I could... But then I drank the polymer kool-aide and found it gooood. |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:59:17 AM EDT
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Time to fire up the oxy-acetylene torch and make the slide serrations match.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 1:20:30 PM EDT
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I like it OP, good job.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 1:25:02 PM EDT
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looks pretty good.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 1:32:11 PM EDT
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NIce Job, I like the thumb pad.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 1:33:59 PM EDT
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I like what you did, I did something similar with more of a fish scale on the grips and straight plunges on the removable backstrap...
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Posted: 9/4/2010 3:57:03 PM EDT
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Quoted: I like what you did, I did something similar with more of a fish scale on the grips and straight plunges on the removable backstrap... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/rndm/DSCF1095.jpg Very nice! The frame certainly has different characteristics than the backstrap doesn't it? I'm going to do another backstrap to try and duplicate what I did on the front strap. Or go back to the dimpled one. |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 4:09:39 PM EDT
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do like
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Posted: 9/4/2010 4:12:25 PM EDT
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DNA collection pads.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 4:17:09 PM EDT
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Quoted:  Quoted: Nice, that slide looks a bit heavy. Lets see what you can do with a Dremel. FLUTE IT!!!  |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 6:25:25 PM EDT
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DNA collection pads. Unless you wear gloves... or use your hands everyday in which case you've got some excess skin to give away. |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 7:41:20 PM EDT
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Quoted: Best home texture job I've seen. +1 Please share your tips with us nOOb WECSOG soldering iron fools.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 7:56:47 PM EDT
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I was right with you till you did the tab under the slide.
Other wise it looks well done. Same here. |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:10:54 PM EDT
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Does your wife use it for exfoliating?
ETA: I'm kidding! |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:11:54 PM EDT
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I went through the same progression––back strap, then front strap, then the whole frame.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:22:11 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Best home texture job I've seen. +1 Please share your tips with us nOOb WECSOG soldering iron fools. Test first, plan, practice. But when it's time to do it, don't be scared, just do it like you practiced. Get scared you're going to mess it up, and you slow down. Sometimes this is ok. It's not when you're pushing a soldering iron into your plastic gun frame |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:23:29 PM EDT
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Quoted: I went through the same progression––back strap, then front strap, then the whole frame. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/topgunpilot20/Guns/MP9TS_01_web.jpg Please share your tool geometry, I really like that texture.  |
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:23:45 PM EDT
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i think what you did looks good. been thinking about doing it myself.
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Posted: 9/4/2010 8:43:48 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I went through the same progression––back strap, then front strap, then the whole frame. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/topgunpilot20/Guns/MP9TS_01_web.jpg Please share your tool geometry, I really like that texture. Brass flat head screw that I dremeled a crisscross pattern into using three lines in each direction. |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 6:46:41 AM EDT
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DNA collection pads. Dude, it's a reference point for your thumb, not a specimen cup...
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Posted: 9/5/2010 6:47:34 AM EDT
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I went through the same progression––back strap, then front strap, then the whole frame. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/topgunpilot20/Guns/MP9TS_01_web.jpg Looks almost exactly like mine, only I did the forward thumb pad. I used the same method too. |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 8:13:12 AM EDT
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Nice man! I really hope you give us a range report. I can't wait to hear how it works for ya.
The problem with technical gun threads in GD is there are a lot "fit & finish" type responses. Kind of like reading a guns & ammo article. Pretty fucking useless. Notice how you got no responses from the fit & finish crowd when you asked about it's function.......... |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 8:22:25 AM EDT
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nvm I see you got it.
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Posted: 9/5/2010 9:01:46 AM EDT
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Quoted: Nice man! I really hope you give us a range report. I can't wait to hear how it works for ya. The problem with technical gun threads in GD is there are a lot "fit & finish" type responses. Kind of like reading a guns & ammo article. Pretty fucking useless. Notice how you got no responses from the fit & finish crowd when you asked about it's function.......... |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 9:04:52 AM EDT
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I am waiting for home ported barrels . please update with results
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Posted: 9/5/2010 9:12:49 AM EDT
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I like all of it including the tab under the slide.
"I get it."
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Posted: 9/5/2010 9:23:59 AM EDT
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I don't like it. But its your gun. I just don't like stipling.
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Posted: 9/5/2010 9:36:22 AM EDT
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its your gun
looks like you planned/practiced beforehand looks like you achieved the desired result well executed,nice job! fullretard would have been answering the phone with the soldering iron resting on the grip
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Posted: 9/5/2010 10:46:22 AM EDT
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OP, that's one SWEET stippling job!
It's one of the best ones I've seen, as well.
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Posted: 9/5/2010 6:08:47 PM EDT
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Due to popular request, I got my Dremel out and went to work on the slide this afternoon. I'm pretty good with a Dremel. I once re-cut female threads in a 2.5" brass spinnable pipe fitting that had been dented by a forklift. Not exactly something you can run down to Ace and pick up.
Still contemplating the flames around the muzzle. I'm not sure how I'm going to refinish it yet. Suggestions welcome. I'm currently trying to decide between bead blasting it, and leaving it in the white (it is stainless) and sending it out for either melonite or Ion Bond or something similar.     |
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Posted: 9/5/2010 6:09:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/5/2010 6:13:57 PM EDT
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I forgot to add, if you have a really nice Dremel like mine at home, and you'd like to duplicate this pattern, I used a 0.250" carbide cutter, and the centers of the scales are 0.200" in both axis, alternated 0.100" each row. You gotta be really careful and hold the Dremel at 10 degrees. I had to kinda stick my tongue out to hold it just right.
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Posted: 9/5/2010 6:20:22 PM EDT
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What is this, I don't even....
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