dakota.potts
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I'm interested in doing some light woodworking for making pistol grips and knife handles. I'm not really experienced working with wood and a lot of the nicer woods to do it with can be prohibitively expensive for experimentation.
Today I was pulling some weeds out of my small vegetable garden when I got a good look at the pallets I used to make up the fence. It was never a very good fence anyways, and I noticed that some of the wood on there actually looked pretty decent.
I had to get to thinking, would it be possible to use the wood as practice for this? It wouldn't stay on a handgun long term, but might give me some practice learning to shape and drill them. I have a couple different handguns I could learn on and even a VZ 58 that I've thought about making a new grip for but didn't want to jump straight into any of the exotic woods that would look good on them.
Also, could I stain and seal them to get some practice doing that too? Has anyone tried it before?
Today I was pulling some weeds out of my small vegetable garden when I got a good look at the pallets I used to make up the fence. It was never a very good fence anyways, and I noticed that some of the wood on there actually looked pretty decent.
I had to get to thinking, would it be possible to use the wood as practice for this? It wouldn't stay on a handgun long term, but might give me some practice learning to shape and drill them. I have a couple different handguns I could learn on and even a VZ 58 that I've thought about making a new grip for but didn't want to jump straight into any of the exotic woods that would look good on them.
Also, could I stain and seal them to get some practice doing that too? Has anyone tried it before?