Took a mill, to an Hk...

[spyder]

So last time I showed pictures of my stuff, it was work done on some G30's. This time, it's my Hk USP. I'm just going to have fun with this gun. I'm going to end up doing absolutely everything I can to this gun, slide lightening (maybe more), matching the spring rate to the slide weight, I fit an aluminum weight to it that a friend made me, I'm putting a Delta Point on it recessed into the slide with the sights moved forward in front of it, Cerakoting the slide and weight Burnt Bronze, coating the Jarvis barrel with TiN along with a couple mags.... I might, might even flute the barrel. This is just an "all or nothing" gun for me. Anyway, here is what it looks like right now. I know you can't see it in the pictures, but the serrations in the slide match the angles of the serrations in the weight. The size of the serrations are different and so is the spacing, but I wanted it to also look good if I didn't have the weight on. For those of you that like the Match, but also hate the extra weight, that the weight has... the aluminum is awesome!

This is what it looked like with the weight's final fit...

I had to make an insert that fit like a glove inside the slide so I didn't crush anything in the vise.

Machining the serrations in the slide.

What it looks like without the weight.

With the weight, but no barrel (still have to get it).

So, that's it so far. Still a long way to go.

 

[Steelman]

Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.

 

[__Doc_]

very interdasting.
Id like to see the finished product with burnt bronze

 

[awilson82]

Cool

 

[dom1104]

So THIS is what HK owners want their guns to look like.

 

[IndianaResident]

Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.

Wrong. Its Tomb Raider.

But I dig the look. Good job.

 

[sig1473]

So THIS is what HK owners want their guns to look like.

Yes. Yes we do. We are HK and you suck

 

[TAT7]

Interesting

 

[Ltrain]

Different, but I kinda dig it.

 

[cedartop]

Is that a 5th axis machine you are using?

 

[williamnewman1]

different , but i like it

 

[spyder]

So THIS is what HK owners want their guns to look like.

Of my Hk's that I have, that is the ONE that I am highly modifying (it doesn't end there). Everyone thinks that because their gun came exactly the way it is off the shelf, that they can't do anything with it. I merely "put rims" so to speak on my gun. There is a lot of metal on guns that you can move without hurting them, well, some of them....

Also, I just like custom work and making my guns, my own.

Is that a 5th axis machine you are using?

Nope, just a regular vertical mill. Everything is done by hand adjustments on knobs.

 

[Lucas156]

Awesome Ive been watching videos on machining firearms. Are you a machinist by trade?

 

[Bigtanker]

Very different. Not something you see everyday. I could get used to it.

 

[D2VW14_20]

I got a Glock slide if you want to work on it!

 

[LLDJR]

Sweet work, if you hook up with a good coating/plating company you will eb good to go

As soon as we move to a new house, I'm going to pick up a Mill as well, I ran a mill for 12 years + heli-arc weld, lathe etc.. I love metal working

I'm going to swing some gunsmithing classes as soon as my son turns 16, he wants the be a glock armorer and I'll do 1911 stuff

 

[spyder]

Awesome Ive been watching videos on machining firearms. Are you a machinist by trade?

I used to do gunsmithing work on the side for people while at my last job. I also built Hk clones. After I was laid off, I decided to give the gunsmithing thing a full go. To get on with a big company though (or good custom company), you have to have a way in. My way in is through the school I'm at (TSJC) and learning more of the gunsmithing trade. I'm going to the Brownell's career fair, and the Shot Show in Vegas with the school and will have lots of display work. Everyone who graduates has multiple job offers from these two events. I haven't had any mill work, untill I came to the school to answer your question.

I got a Glock slide if you want to work on it!

I have worked on other's slides and pieces, gota get grocery money somehow!

 

[spyder]

Did my stainless...

 

[Audie Murphy]

Spyder,was that the HK you had posted in the classifieds?

 

[spyder]

Spyder,was that the HK you had posted in the classifieds?

No, that was its twin. I wish I could have kept it, they were sequential SN's...