Ops! I did it again. AO First Look.

[shartley]

That's called slotting, and in aluminum its a bit tough without a coolant through spindle on your machine. Basically, the chips come out at such a copious rate, that they pile up in the slot and bind the tool. At best this wears the tool faster, at worst, it can break it and ruin your billet to boot.

I don't like to slot unless there is no other way around it, and when I do, I like to keep the width:height ratio at about 1.5:1 or lower.

Even if you slot it though, it does still waste that chunk of alum there. Overall I'd say it would add ~$10 to the cost of the part (in material and machine time).

That's basically why I didn't go any farther out with the snatch grip. The one I put on there added style without greatly impacting the weight of the part or the cost of manufacture.

[shartley]

Plus, I don't really want to just rip off CCM's look. I've already had people think that I took the idea for the not quite 90 deg frame from them, this would do nothing to help my crediblity. "No, I didn't borrow the angle . . . . . . but yeah, that snatch grip I got from them."

[Carbon Blue]

is it lighter than the intelliframe?

will it both have upper and lower trigger stops?

When you say "raw" will it be the same polished almost chrome looking scheme as deadlywinds karta bodies?

[CoolHand]

is it lighter than the intelliframe?

will it both have upper and lower trigger stops?

When you say "raw" will it be the same polished almost chrome looking scheme as deadlywinds karta bodies?

I don't know what the intelliframe weighs, this one should hit around 6.7 ozs.

Yes. Upper is fixed, lower is adjustable.

No, raw is as it comes off the machine. Most of the cost of anodizing is in the surface prep. Raw is cheaper because I didn't have to pay someone to polish the part. If you buy raw from me, plan on spending a few hours sanding and polishing before it will look like the DW raw. They should call that finish "polished and unanodized" instead of raw.

[Carbon Blue]

thanks man