Gun Stippling Tips and Techniques

alright guys welcome back to the shop today I have a Glock 22 of course it's a 40 cows in gene 3 it is plain Jane yeah has no modification to it the coolest thing about this again is it has a set of factory Glock not science this is extremely popular gun you find these a lot as police trade ends especially now since a lot of place used to be a 40s now most people are switching back to nines which of course what I prefer but this belongs to a buddy of mine and he said make it cool so that's what everyone trying to do today now it's gonna be a little different than some other videos in the past a lot of people come in and said they want to see a little bit more how-to they don't see some more technique and I attend to I always kind of thought that was the boring part we're actually you know would would slowly you do the stippling and some things like that but I'm gonna kind of go this is gonna be more of the tips and techniques type video of course you'll get to see the final product but I'll try to talk you through each step of this this is gonna be pretty basic what I'm gonna do on here it's nothing you've seen on the channel before though some things this clock is not gonna get unless my buddy changed his mind I want to make sure and talk to him before I finish finish the video and finish this gun up but it's not gonna get any trigger guard undercuts and it's not gonna I think I'm gonna do the index here but I'm not gonna do like a thumb ledge like you've seen before and on the opposite side I'll probably do another finger index but we'll see that might change before they in the video I'll double check with him and see what he wants now a few things I like to have when I'm starting again and a lot of people I know probably think for me and why are you gonna if you show everybody how you do your work aren't you gonna lose your business well honestly if some dudes scrolling internet trying to find out how to videos I'm stippling a gun number one he's already got in his mind that he's gonna do it himself which is fine and any y'all watching this or thinking man I learned how step on the among gun I'll be honest I do a lot of guns that poor people are started stapling themselves and I've had to fix I've had to fix screw-ups so I mean if you want to do your own stuff that's fine that's how I got started I knew this is working on guns it's something I enjoy anyways and that's kind of how I got started in the whole framework business so anything you see me do I'll be glad to do for you you just got to let me know all right now a few things I've always keep a nice ruler this is a nice flexible metal ruler and it's got some real fine measurements all right got you metric on the bottom and your standard measurements on the top this is really nice about making nice straight lines good measurements things like that first thing I want to show you on this gun is I'm gonna do a border on it I'll show you my actual - I'll do borders with the one thing I like to do is like if I wanted to do a border I want to have a consistent line around the bottom again that's where I like to start at I'm not doing anything else to this gun and nothing literally nothing I start with the outline and the borders first that's a little bit different than why I used to do things but I started using different tools and you just kind of develop your own technique as time goes on okay the more guns you do or whatever you just learn more about it okay I've done dozens okay of guns now and you just you just like any craft the more you do it the better you perfect it so and everybody does it different you know if you're if you're god that's stipple guns very you've no framework on your own gun before you may not do like I did but I'm just going to kind of show you a few things I do stuff that works for me all right so on my measurement and this might be hard to get in the camera but I can't can't work the camera and show you exactly what's going to you so you just have to listen alright so I want to flush the bottom of this up with my thumb now you'll notice my ruler is kind of vertical north and south it's perpendicular with my slide okay that's why I want it that's gonna give me a nice flat line across the bottom my frame right if the slide button on the gun I'll make sure I was perpendicular with the top of the front you know either way no big deal ah so I want to make this first line again I got this flushed to the bottle my thumb and right here I'm gonna make a mark this is a fine tip Sharpie I like using it because it doesn't rub off as easy as pencil I want to make a mark f4 millimeter it's a nice little mark right there if I can't even say that on the camera I'll come down over here to this side trying to keep my ruler nice and straight make another mark four millimeter want to treat for boom okay and I'm go for that I'm gonna kind of keep going around the gun making that four millimeter mark and then when I get enough marks to satisfy me I'll start connecting the dots okay sorry camera works little shaky but you get the point okay now I'm not going go through the I won't start going through this entire process I mean showing you making meeting making four millimeter marks on the skin so that's just one thing I like to show you that dude now once I do get all my lines laid out now some of them you can't you can't make measurements everywhere awful again there's not enough reference points to do that some of this you just gotta have a steady hand and freehand a nice good straight line if you don't like it try it again okay the more strenuous or the higher the standard you hold yourself to you the better your products gonna look at me always go slow there's nothing you can't rush anything on this type of work and make it look the way you want it I'll be honest the first gun ever it is and one of my own guns I'm not to this day I'm not hundred percent satisfied with it but the first one I ever did so it's kind of way it goes but it could I redo the gun absolutely I could say it and completely back down and redo this but it takes time time cost money and eventually I might do that whatever alright now after I get my my border lines laid out something I knew this is kind of a newer technique I've used it several times everybody it's really think this is my new tool I used for cutting my borders I used to use a grinder another grinder but like I drink a similar to a general tool when you seem to start staying in the minute this is type of tool I use these are not expensive okay this is a great brand and grape is not a super expensive brand of tools but it's very effective he's got a lot of nice hot tolerances in him the well-built old this the air tools pneumatic tool I run this off of a 25 gallon air compressor any air compression got to work won't complain I do have about my own compressor if I'm talking about is it's loud my shops not all that big so when I'm running this and sanding away this existing grip texture it's just pile so I usually wear ear protection because it's so loud in here anyways back to this tool this is a flex cut wood carving tool this is called a shallow you gouge I don't know if I can get this to focus or not but you can kind of see the way the tip of this is made I'm gonna get you a good focus you're on but anyways what I'll do just when my line is laid out and I'll show you this when we get there I'm gonna take this and just actually carve away and this it actually runs a really nice and straight I'll just carve out a nice perfect line out of the plastic it looks a little better than maybe some of what I've showed you on my channel before so and you can make nice curves and you need to all kind of stuff so I'll kind of show you that when we get there so I'm gonna go ahead and take the slide off this gun lay out my border line and kind of show you how to use this did we continue all right so the borders are on the gun are drawn on the gun at least now even though I did these in this fine tip sharpie you kind of got to be careful cuz this you'll rub that right off okay I mean you can literally lick your finger and rub that off so once you lay your borders at my suggestion is don't handle it a whole lot now before I actually show you what this is gonna do on the gun of course I won't show you the whole process so dunno because it's I'm gonna show you more on some some practice material what this girl a lot so this is a plastic case that has some I forget it's like cool accessories or something oh yeah you can see having some grounding discs or something so when you use this tool here's kind of how it works you just kind of get some pressure and get it started and you're just carving away plastic okay just like it was carved now I'm not gonna hardly go that fast when I start on this gun but you can see this makes a nice clean deep line now I've sand it's on this just so I can I'm gonna show you some stippling techniques on this same practice material here in a little bit but you can tell this is just a really nice clean way to do a border and just starts down in there you're just gonna walk it nice and slow you don't want to let it slip I'm not putting a lot of pressure I'm just easing along I can make a turn I can go 90 degrees I think whatever I need to do okay so this is a handy tool this is a an expensive tool believe it or not this one's a 1/2 1/2 millimeter go ahead and mark that on there I got some other sizes but I like this one 1/2 millimeter I think it makes a nice border it's not too big it's not too deep and I just like the wait list now so let's go ahead and get the gun over you know I'll kind of start going working on this bottom bottom border here another thing when you're doing any kind of frame work you need to be comfortable if some videos you might watch if you spend some time will soon be able to you guys okay all you need to put your gun in a vise and you need to sand it with my hand or sandpaper that's man I don't know if I you might never do that it seems like a total waste of time but to each their own so I'm gonna actually cut out the line I'm not gonna go above this line or below this line I'm gonna try to ride the middle that line I'll wait out there here we go and I like holding my flame in my off hand and I'm right-handed so I'm working with my right hand here I'm started at a point where I know I'm not around the middle of a curve just go nice and slow I just got me a starting point I'm late again flat I'm just gonna Walker sorry I'm on the camera I'm just gonna start working across stay here I'm actually wanted to move the camera to get this did y'all shot at this sorry I get you jest into my knee okay another thing you say it you look like I'm in a sleep mistake I'm still kind of a corner this gun I'm just gonna start right back into this nice and slow all right if I were slit this the end of this I promise you're sharp I would that would jab right into my hand I've I have to cut myself with these before not bad that it doesn't happen yeah you can see here that's a nice clean line and of course I'll have to go I so usually go I'll go this direction and I'll come back this direction that makes that makes my border line you can tell that doesn't look very deep that's gonna if I go back the other direction that's gonna make it nice and clean and even and I'm just gonna go nice and slow go wrap and I'm gonna make these curves and look around I do the same thing around my top border and that's how I did my borders I'm gonna finish doing the border on this frame and I'll get you on to the next phase you just say oh no I'm kidding about you'll stab yourself I mean this just went right into my wrist it's not it's not super neat but it happens you's gonna be careful alright guys so I got my border laid out you got carved out there with the woodcarver tools and I know it kind of looks strange against your factory texture but what I'll do is after I go the sanding I'm about to take my micro air die grinder sand away this existing texture and you don't have to go crazy with this it's feeling all that important like this part that right here it's kind of technically smooth you don't have to go crazy on that you just you only have to go over honestly my thing is you're going to take out these are really rough portions of the factory texture on the finger grooves and since you're not doing any undercuts on this gun at least I'm not on this one it makes it pretty simple all this goes away and all this kind of back strap goes away and that's all I'm saying you have to do now the reason I use this tool instead of like a traditional Dremel we're going to turn on here so you get on it and I run my air compressor I got my regulator set on about 90 pounds I got turned on another wild like this like like if I put it in the bond if you put a dremel tool on the bond it just goes it goes nuts right this is just it stops [Music] [Music] that's one reason that I really like this tool compared to an actual electronic dremel because when you get that electronic that electric motor in a bond it just this this your cord that would be on the laundry room what this goes the tangling knotting up for this just it doesn't so that's that's why I prefer this sever dream on I don't everybody doesn't have one of these but that's just my two cents so I'm sanding on this now to show you just a few for a few seconds kind of how that goes [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] so and I don't have my compressor on right now so it's just the average bleeding off it's not billed back now as you can see here I'm using kind of a I forget what this isn't I've used this same sanding drum on probably a couple guns now so it's not as aggressive as it was but I'll plug them kick my air pressure up to about a hundred and run out sing wide open but I'm what I want you see is I'm just kind of blending this to a smooth right here this is kind of raised you know a couple thousands so I'm just gonna lay it down to where it's just flat all over it's it's not complicated and there's absolutely no point and taking a piece of sandpaper and just constantly sanding this down until it's like you want it it's absolutely unnecessary in my opinion so I'm go ahead and knock down that texture like I was telling you about and I'll continue all right so most of the sanding is complete that goes pretty fast guys actually give this some experience doing these the sending process used to be my least favorite apartment now it goes quick so it's not all that bad now on the fingers I'm going to show you something on a jan 31 reason that I'd rather sand and do really any custom framework to gen4 is because the texturing on the gym floor is much easier sand away on the June threes besides here's another June 3 I'll tell you about my plans for this game later this is a personal friend of mine anyways I'm June 3 you see this part of the existing factory texture is real that's super simple to sand off but this stuff right here is deep and you got to take away a lot of material to get that the way you want it same thing on this back like that's it's a deep kind of texturing so it just it takes some time to sand all that away and smooth it out and get three o'clock bad it's kind of so you can see some lines still right here placing guys that know manners I'm still kind of see a line out there for the factory once I once I put that actual stippling on that that that totally other way same reason some people think man that's kind of left looking well that doesn't matter either I've done it both ways I've got these down to a smooth smooth finish before I staple in it and I left them like this and you get the same product in the end so don't worry about that all right now sometimes gonna show you back to these finger grooves since you do have to take you've had to sand down here so deep you end up deepening the finger grooves you like for if a customer wants their finger grooves left they end up with a little bit deeper finger grooves which I kind of think feels bit nicer but so or you know and a lot of people I remove finger degrees for a lot of people too I think if you watch my other videos you see me do that or at least heard me talk about it so I want to finish sanding away these textures and then the stippling will begin all right the sanding is complete on this weapon we've got fingers grooves existing texture removed completely sanding looks like it's not not that difficult just take your time everything will go well now you notice how in sharpie I've got this cross these perpendicular lines laid out that's on there for the steepling pattern I'm doing on this gun okay and I'm going to show you that on this here you see I got another set of perpendicular lines right here now the type of pattern I'm doing on this sleeve my oh yeah we're warm okay the pattern I'm doing on this is called the weave okay and I'm doing a weave I do a couple of different ways this one I want to show you first this tip that you're looking at and I've mentioned this before but I make all my tips for stapling so there's a chant good change you can't you'll have to make your own tips too if there's something you see that I do but it's not I promise you it's not rocket science but anyways this tip is a thinner tip this is called a this kind of a triple weave I call it and I'm gonna show you how to do it and then I'll show you the one the double way you okay you understand where those terms come from in just a second and that the double weaves what's gonna go on the on the actual Vox ring all right so why I start out on the triple weave is I want to make and I try to keep my iron as vertical as possible I don't want to have it laid over so the camera works not gonna be the best because of the way I'm having to hold this but what I do is I'm gonna start out and by stippling three lines beside by side just like that okay it's a little hard to see in the blue it's a lot easier safe on a different color frame if you hear me blowing this because there's a lot of burning plastic vapor that you're breathing while you're stippling and I always try to blow that on my face it's nice to have a little fan going I don't have mine set up right now but I will eventually now the next thing I want to do is you know you see I'm following that I'm staying in this 90 degree angle I've got drawn on here I want to go the other direction three wide okay now I'm that's really hard to see on the blue alright and then what I can do since my my workpiece is already turning this direction and my iron is already turning this direction I'm just gonna do the three right here okay and we're just gonna keep weaving it together okay and okay since I know I want to keep going this direction to go I'll go ahead and since my work pieces turn this way my own turn that way we'll do three more alright you can see that this makes like a almost like a towel if you're from if you've ever laid any tile in your life you always turn every tile that touches one another's turn the opposite direction that so these are all the same size these all kind of make a square and they just kind of lock together like tile do you just kind of you just keep working it so now when I turn the workpiece back this direction I'm go three there three here I'm gonna have to turn it right the end but right here I couldn't even go down on the bottom side depend on which direction I'm working kind of work it like a pyramid you can kind of start working it like a stair step and it starts going pretty fast you think wow man that's gonna take forever oh really there's not there's no fast stippling unless you got a laser machine so so that you can I hope you kind of get the idea what I'm doing right here [Music] so anytime I see the lines that are running east and west I want to do some north and south lines right down the room and that's all all this stuff will fit together you just got to keep doing it okay that's time a workpiece 3 there now you'll notice that this is like this plastic looks a little sticky and gooey it's cuz it is it's not the same type of polymer that a hand guns made out of it's just good for practice and every everything I got my house that's that's plastic that's no longer useable you probably has some kind of stippling pattern on it so anyways you just keep going like that you see how it kind of makes that that we look everything looks woven together okay so that's I've done this pattern on several blocks then and on a couple SIG's it's it's nice it's a really nice feeling texture especially for carrying that that's it gives you a nice grit that's also smooth enough that it's not highly uncomfortable against your skin all right let me get on switch tips out and I'll show you the double weave all right yeah so you can kind of see already got it this the double weave kind of going on on this practice piece and you can kind of get an idea what that's going to look like instead of showing you again on the work piece I'm just gonna get started on this actual frame and I will show you the whole process and didn't hogan it's not that complicated everybody's got to figure a few things out on their own now so when I start this I'm gonna I got my cross lay down and I want to kind of start and do all sides of that and then I'm just gonna keep going around and around it sometimes I do them differently and just kind of depends on what kind of money to me and sometimes I'll start and make like I might start down here and I'll do a staircase you know like just down there down I can suck you're climbing the stairs until you're getting the guns do so this time I think I'm just gonna go really just keep me enlarger away from this point and so here we go I always suggest wearing high protection while stapling because the the themes that are coming off my iron you may not even be I'll see them on the camera that gets in your eyes and it's not that big a deal we're just kind of getting smoke in your eyes you're just you know fatigued you after a while I just wanna keep on first gonna keep going her here round and round we go and those lines are nice reference that way so you start to get a little crooked you can look back at your lines to keep yourself straight and really what I do is I just go around until you know I can't go I don't have to start turning the workpiece you know so I'm go my articles and then I'll go my horizontals and that's basically it I'm just gonna keep I'll just keep this pattern going until I get bored I'll take a break I'll start all over again and hold on we'll be finished so I'll give you an update and forgets more soon all right everybody this gun is officially halfway stable and if I do say so myself it's looking quite nice [Music] nice double weave and then so so far as far as just stippling I've probably got about hour I wouldn't happen to that so um so basically what's about to happen as I'm gonna repeat the same exact thing on the other time and it's gonna be finished I'll take this to my friend my customer and I'll get paid so what I will do though is to try to get you see I've kind of quit down the spine here and the reason I do that if I keep going around these rounded surfaces you get you get crooked like your lines it's not me in straight in tail like if you follow if you follow any of these vertical lines they line up you know in a pretty straight line no it crossed and if you as you go around these around the surfaces it's really super easy to get and going sideways and the other side won't match as well so what I'll do is I'll take my straight edge and I'm gonna line up make another perpendicular line and I'll try my best to do is my line that I freehand around the curved edge I try to line it up with what I already have stapled so that's where we're at and I'll show you what it looks like when it's all finished alright guys my favorite part about stapling handguns is the final part and I'm just tying all this together the pattern isn't really turning down the pattern isn't really you know consistent you can tell well it's consistent but until like this side and that side don't collide exactly but I want you like if you look it's kind of hard to see it not shading but if you look down through here I think get to focus if you look down through this area it really it looks fine no I mean it looks really good nobody's worried about it so I'm tied back together right here you just kind of want to follow your pattern you've been doing and make it match that bastion can just it just feels good you know you spent you know I've probably got a total of four hours in this gun and seen it come to completion is just highly satisfactory leaving it all together just like that it's finished I wear glove on my stippling hand because that iron gets hot just sit here about two hours straight and Wow I mean I mean if you don't like that you just don't like guns or you don't like art I don't know I don't claim to be an artist but that looks awesome I mean it's better than factory it feels better it's functional this is probably this particular pattern is probably my most popular carry choice guys that carry their guns they really like this and I kind of promote it as that because it feels like I mean you get a great tactile grip on the gun but at the same time this is not highly aggressive against your skin and like if it's if it's over you know against your body so I'm vote back together give you all another look at the gun what it looks like completely put together boom just like that this is another Glock that is better than it once was in my opinion in a lot of people's opinion a lot of people will agree with that some of you are like me and you ruined that gah ah blah blah blah typical haters man typical haters but so what you're looking at in case if you do like this this is a hundred dollar package all full-size frames that's like for example the Glock 19's sig p320 s you know if it's a full size two you know full-size I'm talking like Glock compacting up I consider those full-sized it's $75 for stippling and that's no matter what pattern you choose right here's an old cell phone case I did a few years ago it's kind of it's kind of dirty between the stuff but right here what you're looking at is a microdot style stipple I use that a lot like going around logos and stuff like that people want that this is a mega dot that's pretty nice for a carry gun it looks cool and it's uh it's not real ggressive either side this next one right here I call the strikeout it's just kind of all over the place this is the the triple weave I think I showed you all that earlier and that's kind of a more of a square tile look instead of the angle book this is a gator stippling that's also very popular this is what I call sprinkles and this is sunburst pattern so these are just these are just a handful stuff on offer there's all kinds of options if you check out the Facebook and Instagram page you'll see other options so anyways back to this gun this is this will be considered full size gun well this is a Glock 22 it is you know a standard sized and you're looking at $75 for this framework and $25 on this this is called the HD border where I carve it out there's other borders are valuable you can get your gun with no border I don't care other options film ledge I charge $15 for thumb ledge I charge $15 for a single intercut $20 for a double undercut finger index is like if you just want this patch stipple on either side that's free I can plug that in framework so that's just some of my pricing I'll do that if you want a custom logo like I've done a gun with Captain American shields that's that's custom logo start at $35 per side because it takes a lot of work but I've done a Punisher skull like a just just all kinds of officers guys check us out also by the way between now today is December the 21st now through the end of February I'm offering $10 off all framework so check us out it's a shot listen oh the best part about getting your gun done by me is that I have the fastest turnaround time in the industry my buddy gave me my his gun I think last Wednesday today is now Friday that since it's after midnight he'll be getting his gun back in a week in two days I could have had it sooner but he said man don't worry about it no no rush and plus you know he's wrong buddies I see him all the time it's not like it's any kind of big deal but anyways if you want your gun then let me know you can ship it to me you can ship it to my ffayle do all my gun business through TNT tactical that's a new Tazewell Tennessee you can check out their website you can call them you can message me on Instagram and Facebook we'll make it happen thanks for watching guys you mentioned this frame early in the video this time frame let me tell you my thoughts on this what's gonna happen I think it's gonna be my most epic stippling framework job to date so I've just got this Glock 22 slot thrown on here just so it looks like a complete gun alright so what's gonna happen I'm not sure I'm on my Coveney on this one because I don't know it's probably gonna take them it's gonna be happening over the course of the next month right now it's December that when he first just after midnight anyways hopefully I want to have it done sometime in January if not before then I'll keep you updated if you're interested in how this turns out keep up with my facebook page thermal gap tactical and my Instagram page at Cumberland Gap tactical I'll have links and all that stuff down in the description what I'm going to do is I'm gonna call this gun this gun is gonna be called a Glock 17 X it's gonna be the Glock that Glock should have made okay and so I want to have a full-length Glock 17 slide I'm gonna try to find a slide that's milled for an optic if I can't find one I want to get one in millet myself for habit meal and this this frame what I want to do right here is I'm from Tennessee so on this side of the frame I want to put the Tennessee Tristar and on the other side of course that will be stippling into the frame and on this side I'm gonna actually put an image of the state of Tennessee and what I'm gonna do is to kind of have some contrast is I'm gonna have I'm not the site at which contrast which won't have it done but that the frame will be seracote of green with leaving the my new symbols in tan or I may do my cymbals in green with the rest of guns the pan so and I'm gonna dick this on AB that will probably end up having double undercoat regard foam ledge everything now here's what's gonna be super cool is I'm gonna cut the frame down so that it is a 19 link all right so from here to here my finger to my thumb all right this is the same this is like Glock 22 slash Glock 17 full-size frame but I'm cutting it down to the compact size so of course I'll give you and I'll give you some more details on the measurements of that all that sort of stuff if I choose to make a youtube video on it but I'm gonna cut it down and take Glock mags which I know when people swing clock released in 99 cents what everybody's expecting they're expecting a full-length slide with a 19 size range so that's good that's what I want you know everybody knows that barrel lengths slide length is not that big of an issue when concealing but your frame your handle portion that's the part that shows so it makes it more uncomfortable carrying in most cases so I'm gonna build it I'm gonna do it we make it happen and there you go so that's that was kind of just the details I want to share on what's gonna happen back right

Channel: Tristar Customs

Views: 355,739

Keywords: guns, 2A, glock, 40, 9mm, trump, Ar-15, .40cal, glock 19, glock 22, glock 17, stippling, framework, custom guns, pew pew, night sights

Id: aHasx6RPj98

Length: 40min 6sec (2406 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 27 2018