Smokee's Tracer

[VanGogo]

Here is Smokee's Tracer, he recently gave it acid wash red/black ano, did a trigger job (lol), and polished his internals(to make it even faster)
Why would anyone put a $250 ano job on a tracer you ask?
BECAUSE HE COULD! lololol



Oh, and those are Frymark grip panels with thumb rest, gas through stock(no gas being put through though) with squeegee side car.

[can'tthink of1]

250 anno thats kinda steep imo.

But still very cool.

[Resist148]

that little annod for that much (even if it was a full gun) its still wayyy to expensive

[barberjohn]

huh, you probably could have gotten a better gun for the same price with the same ano if you just got a phantom, but oh well. i guess you can say you have the most expensive traccer !

[evilhomer]

What's the thing under the stock?

Edit, my bad, I read. Sweet ano job... although I'd just get a nice VSC Phantom with that anno job instead...

[Smokee_2_7]

First off, The only reason i did this is because it was FREE- - - - meaning that i did the work myself. Barry helped me with a few things here and there (like racking the parts: he's just way better than i am at that.)

There is no way that i would ever put an almost 300 job on a marker that only cost about 75 dollars. But. . if you CAN do somthing like this with only your time invested, then by all means. . . make it the baddest trracer the world has ever seen.


Resist148, Ano cost is based on the number of peices anodized- - - regardless (generally) of size. Even if the part is a little bitty sight rail, it still has to be completely prepped and handled and anodized independently of all the other peices. Most Anodizing for paintball guns is based off a '10 peice' job (average number of individual parts on a gun).

This trracer had 10 peices that i ano'd:
barrel, body, sight rail, asa/valve housing, 12gram quick changer, quick changer plug, the stock main peice, the stock shoulder peice, and the 2 clamps for the side car.
pretty much an 'average' job


can'tthink of1,

Email several different anodizers and ask them how much a 10 peice 2-color (one of which is a custom color) acid wash costs.



Anyway, thanks for the compliments guys. Ive had this gun since i started playing, and its kinda nice to see it all spiffied up like this. Not to mention that with all the internal stuff i did, it pumps and shoots almost as good as a mid-level phantom. Not bad for an 8+ year old hand-me-down marker.

Carl

[ShooterJM]

Nice man! I just found my old trracer yesterday when I was digging through my closet! Now I just gotta hunt down a chameleon kit for cheap!

[kevdupuis]

Nice Tracer, I like the anno. I'm all for customizing old markers, it identifies it as yours and no one else has one like it.

[Strider]

Trracers ROCK!

Especially as it's a Tagmaster. Just like mine.