Custom wood grips for a BR snubby

[Noeland]

I posted this over at propsummit today, thought I'd share it here too. My first go round making my own grips!


Well, it's sunday morning. I spent most of yesterday working on my next custom blaster: The grips anyhow:

I started with some blocks of molding from home depot, I liked the grain, and they were ultra cheap:

After about 4 hours of dremel work, I got to here:

Then, this morning I sat down and started sanding my ass off, until I got 'em where I wanted 'em (well, almost):

I'm driving up to Michigan on Wednesday (10 hours across 3 states! all my lonesome) and I want to have this sucker done by the time I gotta leave.

:-D

This is my first time creating wood grips, but it won't be my last. Using the coping saw to cut away the big chunks was the hardest part of the project, otherwise it's been time consuming but very easy. Mostly dremel work shaping the wood block down to where I wanted it.

The tricky part was not cutting my own fingers with the dremel while I was shaping it.

More pictures soon!

 

[silverskyes402]

Wow, great job, those look really good!!!

 

[Patattack]

Very impressive! Especially for hand-carved.

 

[Mr_Creepy]

Great work Noeland, the grain pattern really "pops". How are you planning to finish them..."as is" with a clear coat, stained darker, etc?

 

[Noeland]

Thanks guys! It's been a really fun project so far. Lots of custom stuff going on this sucker.

I'm clear coating the grips as is (actually I just applied the 3rd coat of clear gloss acrylic to minutes ago) which will darken the grain a bit, and bring it out a bit more contrast to the grain.