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Stippling? How too?

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#1 ·
I am thinking about stippling my Glock. I know how to do it with a heating iron but I like the looks of the other ones more but do not know how it is done. I suspect how it's done but not for sure. Does anyone here know or can lead me in the right direction?

Here's a sample:

Heat tip- Not so pretty.


Custom- Better looking. How done? Dremmel tool?
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I found this on Glocktalk. It is done with a heating Iron.

Pick a place to start, and count your strokes. Start with one row/spiral and stagger then in equal dots. For the grip panel, I lay the iron sideways and do a push/pull kind of thing ( like welding ). It's really simple, but time consuming ( about 4 hours per gun ). I also stipple the bottoms of my mags, It works awesome.

The side/hobby job comment is funny, I had an IPSC match yesterday and I came home with 6 extra guns for stipple jobs ( $75 a piece ). Extra Christmas money I guess.

Again thanks for the comments.

Also, practice on Walmart plastic 16 gal. containers. They are about 4 bucks, I totally covered one before I touched my Glock.

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#23 · (Edited)
Finished. I went with the drag style of stipple for two reasons, I think it looks a little more exotic, and since it was my first time to do this I thought there would be less of a chance of burning too deep into the frame. I chose to do this to my Sigma since it is not a main carry gun, ( mostly range and backpacking gun ) and it is not the worlds most actractive gun anyway. I would not have done this to any of my other guns, because I think stippling is kind of cool looking but also seems a little impracticle to me.

I did practice first on my CRKT Kasper tactical knife that is also in one of the pictures below.

I marked the handle where I wanted to do the stipple with a pencil then used a heat pen at a 30 degree angle to push in and drag, trying not to make the lines straight but tried to get them to run into each other and sometimes having to restart a line halfway down to make it look more random. You have to be carefull not to hit the logo if you want to keep it, but other than that it was that simple. I used a 400 grit wet dry sand paper to go over the grip to smooth it out.
For the mag well cuts I use a cutting wheel on my Dremel tool, cut a small V in at the base of the grip then switched to a sanding wheel and rounded it out. Then sanded the slide with 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper then went to 600 grit then metal polish using a buffer wheel on the Dremel tool. The slide still needs a little polishing but that will give me something to do while I watch Sin City Sunday night.





 
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