Laser stippling?

[ray1970]

Just to confirm, this was laser and not traditional stippling?

Yes. Shooter Ready up on the north side of town has a new machine and is in the learning stage. He showed me a basic one he had done and let me handle it. I liked the look and feel and when he threw me a price I left one of my frames with him to do something similar.

Like I said, it?s a basic job that doesn?t require any sanding or other type of preparation to the frame. The frame is stock and is simply chucked up in the laser machine and cut. The front and back straps sort of look a little funky from different angles since the laser texture is applied directly over the existing factory texture but it feels good in the hand and since the frame isn?t sanded smooth first it saves quite a bit of time as well as cost.

He is working on doing fancier stuff but the basic pattern I had done with no frame preparation is very serviceable.

This particular frame is getting built into a basic long slide pistol and I just wanted a better grip while keeping it simple and functional and I feel this job met my requirements.

He showed me one he was working on with a similar texture but done on a frame that had been sanded smooth first and it was pretty nice.

[DDT951]

Yes. Shooter Ready up on the north side of town has a new machine and is in the learning stage. He showed me a basic one he had done and let me handle it. I liked the look and feel and when he threw me a price I left one of my frames with him to do something similar.

Like I said, it?s a basic job that doesn?t require any sanding or other type of preparation to the frame. The frame is stock and is simply chucked up in the laser machine and cut. The front and back straps sort of look a little funky from different angles since the laser texture is applied directly over the existing factory texture but it feels good in the hand and since the frame isn?t sanded smooth first it saves quite a bit of time as well as cost.

He is working on doing fancier stuff but the basic pattern I had done with no frame preparation is very serviceable.

This particular frame is getting built into a basic long slide pistol and I just wanted a better grip while keeping it simple and functional and I feel this job met my requirements.

He showed me one he was working on with a similar texture but done on a frame that had been sanded smooth first and it was pretty nice.

It seems that shooter ready is using an Nd:YAG laser from what I can tell by their web page.

From the pictures it is hard to tell if they are melting the plastic or ablating it with the laser.

Now I am completely intrigued as to how they are doing it.