Posted: 12/19/2009 2:15:31 AM EDT
Two years ago I bought my wife a 9mm M&P. She liked the way it shot but I noticed she kept adjusting her grip after each shot so I bought a stippled backstrap grip. I bought it from another member from the M&P forums. Recently, I acquired a pink removeable backstrap grip from S&W. She liked the pink grip but wanted it stippled since she had gotten used to it. I decided to give it a try but wanted to practice to get my technique down. I bought a few extra grips for testing and decided to give it a try. It turned out to be a lot easier than I thought it would be and I managed to burn myself only twice. 
I used a standard soldering iron with a pointy tip from Radio Shack. I used light strokes trying not to move too slow. I went back over a few of the lines when I wasn't happy with the way they came out. When I was done, I lightly went over the grip with some medium grip sand paper to remove some of the sharper points. My wife's M&P 
The other 'victims'. Original bought grip on left, others are mine. 
Started with a line, ETA-I didn't try to make the lines squiggly, I'm just not artistically skilled 
Started making a pattern 
Started filling in between the lines 
Halfway done! 
Here she is next to my new M&P .40 
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