How to make wood grips for your Crosman
From Michael in Florida
| It’s easy. Just start with a piece of wood and cut, chisel, and sand
away anything that isn’t a grip. It was a great day in Florida. Temperature was in the 80s, with a gentle breeze. |
I figured it was a nice
day to work on some furniture, and since I’ve had a lot of requests
for these grips it was time to get to work. Last night I glued up the
blanks I needed, and made sure my patterns were accurate. Before I begin
any shaping on the forearms, I like to take care of the inletting while
the blanks are square and easy to handle. |
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| Using a
grip frame from a Crosman 1377, I made templates for the shape of the
grips, and for the location of all the holes. The drilling template is
on the far left, the template for locating the holes on the far right. |
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take care of the inletting on the grips while they are still blanks, and
begin shaping the forearm. |
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| Next I
shape the end of the forearm to the front of the trigger guard. |
Measure twice, cut once. No room for error here. |
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initial shape is then rough cut with a band saw/jig saw and sanded in
with the spindle sander. |
I rough
cut the grips and clean them up with a pattern bit on the router. |
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Close up of the pattern bit. |
Here you
can see all the pieces ready for rough shaping and sanding. |
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If you look closely, you can see pattern lines on the blanks. I use those as guides while I sand in the rough shape using the spindle sander. |
It was
getting late and Momma was calling me to make meatballs for supper. I
didn’t even get a chance to shoot today. I just received my first
Crosman Custom Shop 2300X pistol this week and I haven’t had a chance
to shoot it yet. |
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| By the
way, if you get bored while you’re doing any of this, you can always
change your plan, and make something for the Grandkids. “Tower….this is Ghost Rider……requesting a fly-by…..” “Negative Ghost Rider….the pattern is full” |
The sun
goes down early here this time of year, but the weather is why I moved
south. To all my friends in the north, please be safe. You are all in my
prayers. |
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| If you
continue to work long into the night, with careful planning, and a lot
of patience, you may end up with something like this. Just think how
nice it would be to give a pair of American Classic pistols to someone
you love? (She'll love you back...!) |
Keep
trying. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it. |
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Now on to the next project.
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