I haven't posted many mods in a while, but that certainly doesn't mean I haven't been busy. 
Besides work for various customers, including some of you lot, who have been very patient with me 
I've also been heavily remodelling the shop. Not only to make room for no less than three new machines this year alone, but to reduce the clutter, increase the work space, improve tool storage and in general make it more pleasant to work in there.
I am, at the moment, down to five customer jobs, of which most should be cleared out by sometime next week. If you haven't heard from me recently, I do apologize, but I've been burning fourteen candles at all thirty-seven ends since at least midsummer.
Anyway, one of the... *ahem*... slightly overdue projects I had on the table, was to mod a handful of PGP grip frames, using the technique I've been using since around 1997. That's not a typo.
The link has a more detailed description of the process- it's not a bolt-on, unfortunately- but to simplify, one saws off the bottom "loop" of the Sheridan frame, mills up a replacement "block", and attaches it to the frame with screws and epoxy.
After a lick of epoxy spray paint and reassembly, you have a nice, solid frame to which you can attach stocks, rails, bottomlines, duckbills, platypuses or even small children, depending on how cooperative they are.
It takes a little handwork, but with care, the seam and screws can be nearly invisible. (Although this is admittedly the best of the four. )
The new profile fits old Sniper grips perfectly (they ought, as that's what I cut them to fit ) and if you trim them a little, the old LAPCO or later stock WGP finger-groove grips fit just fine.
Always a fun little mod. I still have the first one I modded back in the day- a P68-SC that I converted to direct feed and a ventilated rib, and had Palmer's matte-nickel back on '97 or so. Used to shoot laser beams back when I could get paint that actually fit it.
Doc.
Besides work for various customers, including some of you lot, who have been very patient with me I've also been heavily remodelling the shop. Not only to make room for no less than three new machines this year alone, but to reduce the clutter, increase the work space, improve tool storage and in general make it more pleasant to work in there.I am, at the moment, down to five customer jobs, of which most should be cleared out by sometime next week. If you haven't heard from me recently, I do apologize, but I've been burning fourteen candles at all thirty-seven ends since at least midsummer.
Anyway, one of the... *ahem*... slightly overdue projects I had on the table, was to mod a handful of PGP grip frames, using the technique I've been using since around 1997. That's not a typo.
The link has a more detailed description of the process- it's not a bolt-on, unfortunately- but to simplify, one saws off the bottom "loop" of the Sheridan frame, mills up a replacement "block", and attaches it to the frame with screws and epoxy.
After a lick of epoxy spray paint and reassembly, you have a nice, solid frame to which you can attach stocks, rails, bottomlines, duckbills, platypuses or even small children, depending on how cooperative they are.
It takes a little handwork, but with care, the seam and screws can be nearly invisible. (Although this is admittedly the best of the four.
)The new profile fits old Sniper grips perfectly (they ought, as that's what I cut them to fit
) and if you trim them a little, the old LAPCO or later stock WGP finger-groove grips fit just fine.Always a fun little mod. I still have the first one I modded back in the day- a P68-SC that I converted to direct feed and a ventilated rib, and had Palmer's matte-nickel back on '97 or so. Used to shoot laser beams back when I could get paint that actually fit it.
Doc.
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