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Everyone should mill their own 80% at least once if 3-d printing peeks your interest. Its not as hard as it seems. Or as expensive if you can borrow the jigs (or instead do simple math on a knee mill )
I want a 3D printer so I can print up some nice plastic bolts for my car's license plates.
Nah, you could do it with a run-of-the mill hard wood I bet (if it hasn't been done before). The buffer tube and take-down pins are tricky to make sure they are reinforced, but you shouldn't even need anything exotic as polymer lowers prove.LOL
My lathe only does wood. But if I use ebony, I could probably make a 79% lower.
I want mine to last.Nah, you could do it with a run-of-the mill hard wood I bet (if it hasn't been done before). The buffer tube and take-down pins are tricky to make sure they are reinforced, but you shouldn't even need anything exotic as polymer lowers prove.
Heck, you could likely combine just about any wood and well placed epoxy...
Which is why this is all so stupid...
Put enough epoxy on there and you could make it out of balsa wood and it would last forever...I want mine to last.
I could take a core sample of The USS Constitution's Live Oak maybe.
I thought you were going to say:If I wanted a plastic gun, I'd use a 3D printer!
Obama said:If I had a plastic gun, it would look like it came out of a printer...
Guys be careful a couple of these mirror sights have trojans in the .zip download.
Wrap the grips in "Fine Corinthian Leather".Damn it cekim! now I want to do a hand lay-up plywood lower. I only just got into this sport, have yet to buy my first rifle, let alone build an AR, and you have me considering the viability of an "artisinal, bespoke" build. Bet it would make a mint on etsy
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Wrap the grips in "Fine Corinthian Leather".