Since I didn't have any plans for this lower I decided to use it as a test bed to keep learning new skills on. Here's the result of a simple two tone tiger stripe Cerakote job in sniper grey and armor black. It's the first time I've ever been happy with a multi color spray job thanks to some great advice I got on the Cerakote Reddit sub.
If you've got detailed questions, happy to take them. My email is my channel name at Protonmail dot Com
This is video one on making a custom carbon fiber handguard for an AR15. It covers all the work needed prior to milling the handguard. It is a part of my larger Winter Knight precision AR15 series but it can be watched and learned from independently.
The parts used here took me a long time to source as I wanted to modify the nut as little as possible and wanted to me able to use the carbon fiber tubing as close to out of box as possible. So that you don't have to go through that search, here is what I found works:
- Aero Precision BAR Barrel nut
- Clearwater Composites 1.770" ID Octagonal tubing https://www.clearwatercomposites.com/product/octagonal-carbon-fiber-tubing-1-770-id-x-1-930-od/
Timeline
0:05 Design
5:58 Material Prep Carbon Fiber
7:08 Material Prep Barrel Nut
In a previous video series I went over how we can use a hobby level CNC to make cool lightening and skeletonizing cuts on an AR15 lower. In this video we take take one step further and make cuts to the lower to make it more angular and appear like it was a billet lower instead of a forging.
If this customization is of interest to you I highly recommend viewing my previous playlist showing lightening cuts too. I will link to it in this video at the appropriate section.
Timeline
0:00 Test milling to verify locations
5:28 Final design
8:19 Finalizing billetization
9:16 Measurements for your use
12:38 Overview of lightening and skeletonizing
This is a Geisler model 1917 80% frame overview. One of the things I focus on is the content from SwissBianco's review and where I agree/disagree with it after building one.
The rest of this 5-part series is available on my YouTube channel of the same name. This first video is posted here because for some reason YouTube removed it and rejected my appeal despite it not breaking a single one of their policies.
I loved the look of lightening cuts on AR lowers, but many of the coolest designs weren't available on 80%s. I also thought it would be cool to be able to tweak lightening cut designs to fit my desires.
This is the first installment of exploring whether it is possible to do lightening cuts on a hobby CNC geared mostly towards wood cutting.
I'm also curious whether lightening cuts will even look good on a forged lower in the end or if you need the freedom of billet to really tie together an aesthetic theme.
If you've got detailed questions, happy to take them. My email is my channel name at Protonmail dot Com
After my previous series on lightening cuts I wanted to push the limits on how much customization I could do to an AR15 in my home shop and with my hobby CNC. The first step was to decide the type of AR15 to build. I settled on wanting to build a highly accursed precision rifle and the Winter Knight project was born!
The beauty of this series though will be the learning we will do together along the way. By the end we will have learned some really cool customization skills:
- Creating our own custom carbon fiber handguard
- Making a forged lower look billet
- How to baller Cerakote (H-series oven cured) on a budget
- Design and mill our own custom aluminum bipod
It's well known that Rit Dye on polymer frames doesn't go very deep. In this video we experiment with a grey Geisler frame to figure out just hot deep that is and also what the dye looks like if we stipple the frame after dying it.
Here are my tips and tricks to getting a clean result when routing an 80% AR lower using the 5D tactical jig.
Timeline:
0:15 General Tips & Tricks
5:47 Pilot Hole Drilling
7:15 Milling the Fire Control Group Cavity
21:35 Drilling the Fire Control Group Holes
In my previous Geisler frame videos I made modifications to the frame to improve it in my opinion. But since I got a second frame for another experiment (I'll release a video on that soon too) I wanted to see if the Geisler passes safety and function checks without these mods. TL;DR it does.