Just finished making a pair of grips for a 2013 MacDev Clone GTi. The originals had become brittle and started crumbling so with no factory grips available I decided to make my own.
I scanned in one of original grips and created a vector file to cut out a new pair from 4mm timber on a laser cutter. After a bit of hand finishing and a coat of lacquer I tried them out but they looked a little plain. So I grabbed a Star Wars “Clone Trooper” logo off the web, scaled it down and created a vector file to laser engrave onto some contrasting timber. I then cut out the logo and a corresponding hole in each grip using the laser before gluing them in. The final touch was cutting out a screen window in acrylic on the bandsaw and gluing it into the left hand grip.
All in all I thought they came out way better than expected.
I scanned in one of original grips and created a vector file to cut out a new pair from 4mm timber on a laser cutter. After a bit of hand finishing and a coat of lacquer I tried them out but they looked a little plain. So I grabbed a Star Wars “Clone Trooper” logo off the web, scaled it down and created a vector file to laser engrave onto some contrasting timber. I then cut out the logo and a corresponding hole in each grip using the laser before gluing them in. The final touch was cutting out a screen window in acrylic on the bandsaw and gluing it into the left hand grip.
All in all I thought they came out way better than expected.
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