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Pantograph?
I'm trying to make a custom pistol grip and wondered if anyone thinks
the Craftsman Router Pantograph would do that? I have a baked clay model to go from. If Craftsman won't work, does anyone have any other suggestions? |
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I'm trying to make a custom pistol grip and wondered if anyone thinks the Craftsman Router Pantograph would do that? I have a baked clay model to go from. If Craftsman won't work, does anyone have any other suggestions? Google "Duplicarver". -- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again. |
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J T wrote:
If it was me, I woulnd't ask, I'd just try it and see if it'd work. If it doeesn't, no big deal to shape grips by hand. I made an excellent pair of custom fit grips out of some sort of wood putty (that I've never been able to find any of since), for a house gun, point of aim was right on to where I pointed. The grips came out looking like solid wood, very nice. If I remembered the name of the stuff, I'd buy more. By chance was it "Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty"? http://www.waterputty.com/ -- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA |
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Sun, Aug 26, 2007, 10:31pm (EDT+4) (Nova) doth
query: By chance was it "Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty"? http://www.waterputty.com/ Dunno, been a few years. The stuff I used, you could add some, and it would adhere perfectly, and when you sanded it couldn't even tell where it was added. If this stuff will do that, it might be what I used. JOAT I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do them. - Picasso |
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On Aug 26, 3:40 pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article . com, jdarylh1 wrote:I'm trying to make a custom pistol grip and wondered if anyone thinks the Craftsman Router Pantograph would do that? I have a baked clay model to go from. If Craftsman won't work, does anyone have any other suggestions? Google "Duplicarver". Hunted around and finally found them. Dupli-Carver (http:// www.terrco.com/woodcarvers.php) But that's a bunch of money for just occasional use. One suggestion somewhere got me started Googling "gunstock duplicators" and I came across another website and after reading the History section and browsing around on it, thought his machine plans sounded pretty good. http://www.copycarver.com He actually tried the Craftsman pantograph and found that it was worthless. Then he tried a $3,600 duplicator and it was no good either. |
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Sun, Aug 26, 2007, 12:21pm (EDT-3) (jdarylh1) doth
sayeth: I'm trying to make a custom pistol grip and wondered if anyone thinks the Craftsman Router Pantograph would do that? I have a baked clay model to go from. If Craftsman won't work, does anyone have any other suggestions? I'm curious now. What are you meaning by "custom" grips that makes you figure your "require" some sort of a duplicator carver to make? Here's some custom grips that were made by hand. http://www.jamesdjulia.net/firearm/m...?Details=30368 Not only that, the guy made the pistols too. He was a well respected gun designer, and maker, back around WWII. Unless you plan on something really extraordinary, pistol grips aren't hard to make. Trace a blank, cut it out, shape. That's basically it. JOAT What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new humiliations? - Peter Egan |
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I'm curious now. What are you meaning by "custom" grips that makes
you figure your "require" some sort of a duplicator carver to make? Here's some custom grips that were made by hand.http://www.jamesdjulia.net/firearm/m....asp?Details=3... Not only that, the guy made the pistols too. He was a well respected gun designer, and maker, back around WWII. Unless you plan on something really extraordinary, pistol grips aren't hard to make. Trace a blank, cut it out, shape. That's basically it. Those are pretty awesome grips! The one I want to make isn't quite that exotic. It's just that I don't have the patient, "enjoy the journey" mindset a lot of people have. To me, the end result is my focus and I want to get there as fast and easily as possible. That's why I have nail guns, cordless drills and power saws. Some folks are really into hand tools and slow, methodical work processes. I'm just not built that way. I can probably make one without a duplicator, but after making a test version out of pine, I started thinking that there had to be a faster, easier way. My clay model is really precise in terms of fit, and to exactly (or close) duplicate that in wood has been a slow, tedious process. The pine grip wasn't all that successful, but it was my first. The next one will be better but I'm looking for a better way to transfer the dimensions and rough it in other than trace, measure, get the calipers, etc. |
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Are these going to be target
grips? That would be the only reason for being as precise as you seem to be wanting. Target grips for competition that is. Yep, these are target grips but also the feel of custom grips just can't be beat. I like your idea of the wood filler, that's pretty cool. What brand did you use? I'll have to try it sometime. I wanted this set to be fancy wood though. Also putting together a quick frame for a Dremel sounds good. I'll put some thought to that. Seems quicker and less complicated than the Copycarver I mentioned in my previous posting. The Copycarver would be much better, but for a one time use, the Dremel would probably serve. Maybe I'll rough out some with my bandsaw, then chuck a rasp in my die grinder, knock off more, then put it on the Dremel concoction and finish it off. Or if I'm lucky and don't screw up, maybe the die grinder will get it close enough to the sanding stage where I won't have to do anything more. The part that has me most worried is the inside where it has to be a dead fit to the pistol skeleton. How good the fit is, determines if the grip's going to move around. The single screw only holds the two halves together. That's where the Dremel thing would work really well. I could trace around the inside of the old grip and the Dremel would duplicate that on the inside of the new ones. I wish someone made carbide router bits that fit a Dremel. HSS doesn't hold up at all and I'll probably have to go through a few of them before the job's done. |
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One other thing you might look at is thermoset plastic putty like Fimo or
Sculpy. I've made grips from Sculpy and they work quite well. This is a plastic putty that can be cured or set in an oven @ 275 for 15 minutes per 1/4" of material. I've also carved grips "freehand" with a Dremel using a router base to keep the cuts perpendicular. Just go slow, work from the center out, and know which side of the line to stop on. 1911-style grips are a piece of cake once you get/make a few tools. I've made a jig to get the screw holes the proper distance apart, a jig for the bandsaw that uses these holes (jig rides in miter saw slot) that uses these holes and cuts outline, and to sand to shape, I've got a piece of 1" mild steel tubing that I have grip bushings mounted on - I screw the grip blank into this and sand to shape w/belt sander. |
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One other thing you might look at is thermoset plastic putty like Fimo or
Sculpy. That's actually what I used to make the original form. Was really easy to get a great fit. But I really want to transfer that to wood, much cooler looking if it's done right. I put some thought into JT's comments about an easily made 3D carver and I've come up with an idea that should work awesome and it just uses scraps I have lying around. If it works like I think it will, I should post photos so someone else could make one if they needed it. I decided to power it by my Rotozip instead of my Dremel. Much beefier and more selection of carbide bits for it. It'll be a while before I get it made though...it's really easy to build but I've got other stuff going on so I have to work this in as I can. |
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