Borderlands 2 Jakobs Pistol build

Almost finished with all of the parts! These two little parts are the front and rear rings for the sight/scope. I think that these two little parts may have been the most difficult parts of the whole build! The rings are turned from acrylic on the lathe, and the straight parts are all built up of styrene and epoxy putty. Keeping all of the grooves all even was tricky, and they had to perfectly fit around the sight base. There is also a tiny screw that I turned and slotted. Whew!


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Here’s a close-up of my knurling tool on the lathe, putting the knurling (that ridged pattern), on a blank for one of the little knobs on the sight/scope.


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Finally, I am all finished with all of the parts for the master!


With the additional parts for the sight/scope, and the other cylinder swapped in, you can now see the Jakobs pistol in it’s Rex form, as in Sir Hammerlock’s gun. The only thing that is left is to model the larger hemisphere on the receiver/frame, with the loading gate built in. I will model this as an added overlay part for both sides on one of the first cast receiver frames out of my mold, and make it separate cast add on parts. I also need to make the superfluous rear sight that mounts in front of the hammer.


Now, I am finishing up my vacuum chamber build, and will soon start pouring molds. Yea!


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Awesome! Now that you've finished your vacuum chamber, I thought I'd come here for a look. Nice work! :)
 
Awesome! Now that you've finished your vacuum chamber, I thought I'd come here for a look. Nice work! :)

Thanks! I've just ordered a bunch of silicone this morning, so I may be making molds for the Jakobs pistol by the end of the week!

For those that have been following my Jakobs pistol build thread, I just finished my vacuum chamber build over (here).
 
This project has a disgusting amount of beauty in it! The skills you have have applied to this is astounding and I am quite jealous of it. Cannot wait to see how your molds turn out. Will you be replicating the hardware with molding or milling out each piece?
 
This project has a disgusting amount of beauty in it! The skills you have have applied to this is astounding and I am quite jealous of it. Cannot wait to see how your molds turn out. Will you be replicating the hardware with molding or milling out each piece?


Thank you very much for your comments. In answer to your question, I will be molding all of the parts. I should to be able to cast the milled parts with the same accuracy as the originals.
 
While I am waiting to gather all of my supplies (and wits) to start making molds for the Jakobs pistols, I have also started a new project, the Hitman’s Heatmaker sniper rifle from Team Fortress 2. I have started a separate thread for the new build over (here).






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Thanks for your patience, everyone. Once I got all of my materials and equipment in place to start pouring molds, I got hammered with this nasty respiratory flu that seems to be going around. As soon as I can, I will get started on the molds.
 
Thanks for your patience, everyone. Once I got all of my materials and equipment in place to start pouring molds, I got hammered with this nasty respiratory flu that seems to be going around. As soon as I can, I will get started on the molds.
Get better soon! I will be watching eagerly. :)
 
Finally! It’s been quite a while, but I have finally got some of the Jakobs pistol parts clayed up for silicone!


Damn you flu germs!




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oooooh baby the schmexiness!!! Get better soon, I was hit with the same thing this week.

I'm working on it. This flu takes forever to get over.

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Oh my dear *****. This is exquisite. How much machining experience do you have?

I had quite a bit of metal lathe experience before I started this project, but most of my mill experience is with this project. It's working out nicely to learn milling on hardwood and plastic instead of metal.
 
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