Get a grip. Or make one.

Get a grip. Or make one.

August 4, 2022, 4:01 pm
Filed under: 2nd Amendment, Ballistics, Connections, General Musings, Guns, Humor, tech | Tags: ballistics, BBTI, black powder, blogging, firearms, Glowforge, guns, jim downey, laser

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A couple of weeks ago I posted about finishing a Liegi Derringer kit, then doing the laser work to customize the grips. It turned out well enough, so I decided to finish and laser a second kit, to use as a door prize for a black powder workshop I’m doing at the annual meeting of the Liberal Gun Club this fall in Las Vegas.

All went well until the time came to mount the grip to the receiver. The top mounting screw went in fine, after drilling a pilot hole. But the bottom one broke loose as I was tightening it. I took the top screw back out so I could see what the problem was. This is what I saw:

Almost looks like a tiny wooden shoe from this angle, doesn’t it?

[The entire post about this project can be found here.]

Jim Downey

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