Thought i would throw a pic of this up here so you guys could see it. I was hired to make a ULE body out of
solid brass for an AO member. Nothing ULE about this bad boy!
Thought i would throw a pic of this up here so you guys could see it. I was hired to make a ULE body out of
solid brass for an AO member. Nothing ULE about this bad boy!
ohh sweet! Must be an MCB member as well
Was this an expensive endeavor?
Thanks for posting XMT, looks amazing, can't wait to put it on my mag.
It looks exactly as I had envisioned.
That's neat!
I'm imagining this polished and sitting on a rail made out of mahogany...
What are the plans for the rest of the build?
Eventually, once I get the rest of the parts together, I was going to run some ideas by Roger at precision powder coating to come up with a vintage looking finish on the lowers so that as the brass ages it looks like a custom vintage looking mag. That's just one idea.
Although since XMT brought it up I may go the opposite direction and get the body polished up.
a wooden rail would be tits and polish that body up good ! make that brass shine
I think the old antique look would be pretty sweet. Figure out how to make a wood rail that has aluminum on the critical parts.
Wooden rail! DO THIS! that would be excellent!
If the owner of this still has any money left they should see if luke will do a brass 86* single trigger frame.
Looking forward to a finished marker!!
Wood inset of fancy milling on the rail. Look at old woody type beach rides to get insperation
Looks like aluminum ....
I thought brass was more gold colored ?
too bad it didn't come out nicer.
i need 3 of these.
and then 3 brass barrels and 3 brass xvalves.
seriously how cool
How about doing a brass pirate build, you might be able to have a classic valve powder coated to match.
The other thing I was thinking about was going for one of the custom "Palmer-like" finishes where they polish the brass then tape it off in a tiger stripe pattern and bead blast it so that the finish is multi-textured.
Looks awesome, nice work and a fun idea for building upper body strength!
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points to you for being different, all about that. there is something about standing out and everyone being jealous.
but, brass, i am not a fan. granted, it has more to do with MCB crowd, but its heavier than aluminium, softer than it too. it can get to a nice patina but for the price, i just don't get it. but more power to you, if you want to make a mag heavier.
Very nice. I would like a copper body but I am sure it would be stupid money.
Make sure to bring it to the next tunaball
now im curious... what is the weight difference?
The weight of 1 cubic inch of aluminum is approx 0.10 pounds.
The weight of 1 cubic inch of Brass is approx 0.31 pounds.
So the body is approx 3X heavier then a aluminum one.
I guess to the weight issue, I'll comment: I must be the only one who remembers running around a paintball field with a bob long autococker with brass palmers front end pneumatics, dye generation one stainless, with a unireg and air america 114. Pretty sure this body will weigh less or slightly more than the 12" generation one dye barrel alone.
Three times the weight of one of XMT's ule aluminum bodies is what? Not much in comparison to the above, especially with a ule milled rail and aluminum grip frame. So, it's all a matter of taste, to which there need be no justification since it's hard to account for