This terminates into a lathed pine dowel glued to the barrel corner The upper barrel pipe was made out of 3/8' steel pipe.

Styrene was added to the lower grip, as well as the cell eject lever and front barrel area for the raised textures MDF discs were affixed to the main body to make the housing around the cell.Īt this point, it started to resemble the final product! This is about 6 hours into the build ( Yes, I'm using 'build' as a noun! Colloquial English take that grammar sticklers! ) I pulled two of these and epoxied them around some 2' PVC pipe. I had a small dome mold that I'm using on another project that happened to be pretty close. The microfusion cell was pieced together from some pre-existing elements. Styrene will eventually make up the grip texture. The front grip was made from 2 pieces of 3/4' MDF, screwed together and shaped on a belt sander.

The lower support rod was made out of varying sized of pine dowel, threaded over a 1/4' aluminum bar.

This was also a low-budget build, so I didn't have the liberty of going out and buying fancy new holesaws. I used a table router to re-shape the holes in the stock and bevel the edges. and a space for the rear stock and lower receiver to mount The barrel has a few sections cut out for the microfusion cell. Ignore the lighter pieces near the bottom - those are part of another build.Īfter cleaning up the cuts on a belt sander, I began the assembly of the main body in the 2 most prominent parts - the square 'barrel' and the rear stock. Impressive, right? I had a sick idea of just scotch-taping all these together, painting the whole thing silver, and handing it to him the day of the convention. I taught him how to use a bandsaw (nothing like a crash course in something that can leave you fingerless!) and he went to town rough-cutting the shapes I'd refine later into the gun. In order to save time, my friend came over and traced my blueprints onto MDF.

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