I tried something on a polymer grip, magwell

[ironpony52]

I decided to try to flare a polymer grip and create an integral magwell. I wanted it to be slimmer, smoother and smaller than adding a add on well.
So what I did was make a magazine with the flare added, I then clamped it in a vise, added pressure and heat, it worked out pretty well I think. Needs some final touches but I think it worked out.

 

[iceng]

On the plus side, if you did it wrong, the gun will tell you by shooting you in the dick.

On a serious note, thats actually a good effort. well done. How is the rattle / mag fitment ? How much shorter is it now ? Can you over insert or does the stopper at the top still work perfectly ?

 

[J-Ham]

Kinda sucks that there's really no good way you can practice this outside of going all-out on your own pistol the first time... Solid effort, methinks!

 

[carbonbased]

On the plus side, if you did it wrong, the gun will tell you by shooting you in the dick.

 

[ironpony52]

On the plus side, if you did it wrong, the gun will tell you by shooting you in the dick.

On a serious note, thats actually a good effort. well done. How is the rattle / mag fitment ? How much shorter is it now ? Can you over insert or does the stopper at the top still work perfectly ?

Feels the same as stock, probably a 1/16", appears to function normally

 

[ironpony52]

Kinda sucks that there's really no good way you can practice this outside of going all-out on your own pistol the first time... Solid effort, methinks!

Luckily used stock ones are fairly cheap now. I have done a few different ones. This other one I removed the rail, trimmed the trigger guard, enhanced the grooving and added a screw to look like a grip panel. Looks old school.

 

[ironpony52]

So I cleaned it up some this morning, did an extreme reduction on the beavertail and rounded the trigger guard. I am trying to decide what to do with the rail, leave it, round it off or something else.
I was thinking about integrating a light but I am not a light guy
I am amazed how good this gun feels because of the location of the flare on the front of the grip. I think O might of accidentally created the perfect carry gun

 

[ironpony52]

The other thing I did was when I cut the module down I cut it shorter than the barrel so the barrel sticks out like a full size but this is a compact that got compacted. Normally the frame matches the slide.

 

[opeagle]

Interesting and I wonder how many other polymers will do something close.

 

[ironpony52]

Interesting and I wonder how many other polymers will do something close.

When I was trying to find out the temp at which the polymer would soften AI replied SIG was the lowest temp and Glock was the highest with most others in between

 

[ironpony52]

Interesting and I wonder how many other polymers will do something close.

When I was trying to find out the temp at which the polymer would soften AI replied SIG was the lowest temp and Glock was the highest with most others in between

 

[iceng]

That shorter slide and beaver tail do make it look way cleaner. Leave pic rail. Looks stock / factory.

Big fan of full-time grip and commander size slide.