Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

gzig5 said

Nice work. What are you using to stipple the top of the slide?

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A dull, used up 20 lpi checkering file. It is a soft stipple. Enough to kill glare but to me, not enough for grip like many used to do High Power front straps. And yes, the file will break as you hammer on it, so only use the end half inch at a time. After tri topping and chamfering the slide, it just needed “something”…

That checkering in the pic is only about half done. Has to be cut to full depth to bring the points out.

I keep saying “no more hand cut checkering!” But here I am. And I have not fixtured up to machine cut it since nowadays everyone makes guns and stripped frames already checkered.