This 10 year old G22 was like a bar of soap. I wanted to bring it back to life without going ape shit with the burner… 
Very nice, I like it. :happy:
Dude, that looks great!!! Wow, I’m impressed!
How does it feel?
Feels good. I made two tips and just went with a shit load of tiny holes. It took longer, but it brought the grip back to the gun and it’s not too aggressive.
I’m not a big fan of melting the whole damned frame. It just looks awful.
I agree and I think you may be onto something here!
I agree, while its function over form…your stipple job balances both. Clean and practical.
I was just contemplating doing the same thing on my EDC G30. Do you find the backstrap stippling wears on your skin when carrying IWB? I find myself going undershirt-less more and more nowadays and this would be my only real concern about doing this.
I don’t run any IWB holsters, but the texture I ended up with is very mild. AND… you could leave the skin side of the rear part of your frame un-stippled. That part of the stipple job doesn’t really help you until you shoot support side, but I did it to keep the pistol symetrical.
Generally, I think stippling looks like shit on Glocks.
That said, I think you did a great job.
Very nice. It is easy to go crazy when stippling the frame but you did a great job keeping it clean and maintaining a factory look.
I like it - kinda like a reverse stipple job of what I did on my G21SF.
nice work
Nice job I did some pmags the other day. Not brave enough to to a pistol, yet.
Nice markm. I need to try stippling something one of these days. For example how long did that take?
That’s my thought too… people go overboard. But this glock was so smooth, it was worth a shot, and so far, I like it.
30 minutes, i’d guess. Once you get started, the time goes by quickly.
Very clean look. I can’t get away from wanting things to look nice and be functional. This appeals on both fronts.
Nice job, I really like the look of that. Essentially getting more grip without it looking like chewed bubblegum :dirol:
EDIT: What did you use for your heat source?
It works for me
Can you explain how you prepped the back of the frame for stippling? Did you remove the factory checkering prior to stippling or just stipple over it? That looks really nice.
Thanks, I used a dremel tool with a sander attachment to smoothen the serrations before stippling. It doesn’t have to be perfectly smooth.