Working over my Springfield TRP... Pix

**madryan** · 12-20-12, 21:48

Originally Posted by vereceleritas

Nice work. What do you use to round off the edges of the slide and frame? Just sandpaper and elbow grease?

I usually hit it with a needle file first to do the bulk of the heavy lifting then varying degrees of sandpaper. Wet/Dry sandpaper with windex on it works awesome. You can true up the straight edges with a flat surface and a sheet of 360 grit wet/dry and get really nice blended radii.

I went with a pretty heavy break on most of it. Whatever was appropriate for the part. Some of it looks better with less, some better with more.

Here's 3 recent pix of the frame...

It's hard to tell by the pix but there's a fairly heavy break, probably .02 on the back of the grip that extends clear up to the beavertail. It feels wonderful in the hand. I also relieved the grip to clear my thumb during mag changes.