by Gun Club of America Member Bill Paradis

I began my build by purchasing a Glock 17 frame from GunBroker.com. I wanted a Glock 22 but the frame is the same for both so this worked out for me. The only thing I had to change is the ejector. In order to customize and build the pistol I purchased a Glock 22 slide from Lone Wolf and a threaded Glock 22 barrel. As you can see the slide comes with basic cut outs for the the extractor, ejection port, and all the internals. I wanted to modify this with my small vertical mill so I took the complete machinist course taught by Darrel Holland. This gave me the principles necessary to do the milling. I also took Gene Shuey’s making a custom carry Glock, so I included some of the cuts he discusses. I also wanted to add a Rear Mounted Red dot (RMR) scope so I did not cut out the dovetail for the rear sight or the slot for the front sight. You can see that I placed it as far back as I could so no co-witnessing available. I wanted it to be very unique and I wanted to try out CeraKoteing. This was a very good opportunity to do both things. I began by putting on a first coat of black for the entire gun so that I could begin at a common baseline. I let this do the full time of 2 hours for polymer at 180 degrees. I then began the camouflage by using some patterns I bought on line. I allowed each coat to dry 15 minutes before putting on the next coat/color. This is in accordance with the instructions that came from CeraKote. When all coats had been applied I heated it for the required 2 hours at 180 degrees. You will notice that I also followed Mr. Shuey’s example and added skate board tape for the grip. I is really a sure and grabby grip. As part of the build I also added a Cominelli MSK. This was a lot of fun and I am happy with the outcome. All it takes to do this is a little fearlessness and a desire to build something unique.