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..... I work with CAD/CAM and CNC machines doing in house work for an injection molding body jewelry company, which of course would be in Portland. Anyway, I built my first AR about 6 months ago from an 80% lower, which was just too easy to finish on a CNC mill with the proper CAD drawings.
A few months later I got bored and found a CAD drawing of a glock mag 9mm lower, and wound up doing the CAM operations to cut it out of a solid chunk of billet, it seemed to work ok, so I altered a milspec upper CAD file into a slick side upper, and added all the CAM to cut that from a billet as well.
I decided to keep the raw aluminum finish (clear anodizing kinda ruined the polish, but thats just what happens), and round out the build with as many raw parts as I can, along with a stainless barrel and comp. Just waiting for somebody to stock a KVP 9mm BCG so I can go test fire it!
and just to be clear, this is no way meant to be a tactical life saver, more of a test to see if I could actually do it. My roomate thinks I robbed a T1000...
Enjoy!
A few months later I got bored and found a CAD drawing of a glock mag 9mm lower, and wound up doing the CAM operations to cut it out of a solid chunk of billet, it seemed to work ok, so I altered a milspec upper CAD file into a slick side upper, and added all the CAM to cut that from a billet as well.
I decided to keep the raw aluminum finish (clear anodizing kinda ruined the polish, but thats just what happens), and round out the build with as many raw parts as I can, along with a stainless barrel and comp. Just waiting for somebody to stock a KVP 9mm BCG so I can go test fire it!
and just to be clear, this is no way meant to be a tactical life saver, more of a test to see if I could actually do it. My roomate thinks I robbed a T1000...
Enjoy!