Way of the (paint) Gun, and Gallery of the Machine

• From-scratch Warp-Feed upper receiver for a Rainmaker.

• This rather complex piece holds the pneumatics on a pneumatic-assist Grey Ghost!

• Take a little weight off a Jackhammer LPR knob.

• This Drop-Left moves a small Dynaflow tank 1" to the side for wrist clearance.

• Speaking of drops, here's a big ugly one! (Customer wanted it that way, for a big 114 tank.)

• I had to make this tiny quarter-turn valve for a specific application.

• I'm putting a RaceGun electronic grip frame on my Stroker. So I whipped up this rather trick little Solenoid Mount that I'm fairly proud of. It's clean, compact and self contained.

• An in-progress shot of my Impulse, including this integrated front-cap/LPR assembly and a custom Jacko-tipped Freak-inserted Barrel.

• Speaking of Freaks- Here's a series of Custom Backs, and a pile of VM backs made for a customer.

• Here's a trick I did a year or two ago: I Recessed a Shocker overpressure poppet into the back of the gun body.

• Recently fixed an old tire machine: Sawed up an old Axle and machined this new 1.250" x 18" keyed Shaft out of it.

• In the course of the repair, I had to make a couple of tools: A quick groove on the back of an old cemented carbide lathe tool and now it holds Indexible Carbide inserts. Then an old rusty 1" bridge bolt turned down and grooved to hold a bit of 5/16" tool steel makes this nice little Boring Bar.

• Got to use a great big Honkin' Drill Press too! (That's a 2-1/2" bit, by the way.)

• Any good machinist makes his own tools: Here's an adjustable Carrige Stop I made, plus an internal Spindle Depth Stop- here's how it Fits.

• The bolt kept stripping in this KUHL Supercharger pulley mount, so I added a steel pivoting nut. Here it is installed on the 'charger.

• Never liked those wack mounts for the Angel AIR, so I made this Apocalypse rail adapter.

• Stock LED Angel solenoids too expensive? Wanna run CO2? I made this adapter to run a Parker Solenoid in place of the bulky stock SMC.

• Just fiddlin' around recently, I carved up this Delrin 'Cocker bolt.

• Friend of mine had this old Griffin & Howe quick-detachable scope mount. Problem is it only held the old 7/8" diameter scopes. I made this aluminum Mount to adapt some Conetrol rings and a modern 1" body telescope.

• Here's a first: A Dark Angel modified to take 'Cocker barrels!
• Speaking of Angels, cracked the pin hole in your breechblock? I can Fix it.
• That's black, baby: RF Shocker converted to Angel-thread centerfeed with a custom air-assist neck.
• Here's a little something for my Toronado.
• A handful of customized "Freak" barrels (and one custom-cut VM-68 barrel.)

• Too frilly? A wrought-iron paintball gun stand worthy of somebody's mantelpiece.
• Stripped your feeder threads? I can fix those too
• Here's the Black high-rise Shocker body before it was annoed.
• Want to know what's in your tank? Try this Test Tank with direct-read gauge.
• Speaking of testing, believe it or not, This is a diagnostic tool.

• As an emergency "band aid" fix, I whipped up this dummy overpressure piston for my Automag.
• Too sexy for my Trigger? Rough-cut, then milled, polished and installed.
• Converted a 'Mag to take 'Cocker barrels: drop-in, no-'smithing stainless steel insert.
• Old pic: Just as an experiment, I whipped up this Adapter to install a solenoid to a Palmer's Blazer.
• Above; Stock "Eagleworks" Stingray-2 barrel. Below, rethreaded to fit a VM and grooved.

• More handmade tools: A specialized Face Cutter, 01 oil-hardening steel.
• An extended-length spotfacing cutter, untempered 4140.
• An interesting "keyway" type cutter, ground from, believe it or not, a Grade-8 3/8" bolt.
• And here's proof that it works and cuts.
• Left: Stock Evo P-block venturi bolt. Right: Custom "bigmouth" bolt with some body milling.

• The Five steps in making your own vertfeed 'Mag body: One, pull the old neck and weld up the hole.
• Two, after it warps from too much TIG heat too fast, hammer it straight on a mandrel. Swing hard.
• Three, grind and sand it smooth again, and redrill the feed hole. Machine the new neck from 303 stainless.
• Four, silver-solder the new neck in place, making sure it's straight, level and square.
• Five, sand and buff it 'til it shiiiines.

• Sometimes I gotta make my own tools... like this Boring bar. The bit's ground from a broken drill-bit stub.
• Okay, so they don't match the purple... but here's some Wood Grips for an LCD Angel.
• Pretty mundane, sure: a Simple Adapter to run CA or HPA into a PGP in place of the 12-gram.
• And to go with those, some Extended Knobs for the PGP feed tubes
• Another "Skull" LED on a Glacier-equipped Shocker.

• Don't ask me how, but somebody stripped this Shocker's barrel threads... It's fixed and now takes 'Cocker tubes!
• Non-paintball, but I turned these .45 ACP 'dummies' for safe practice and function testing.
• Broke that cheap potmetal stock grip on your Sterling? Here's one in solid, anodizable aluminum.
• Twisted! Check out this prototype 'Cocker pump rod...
• A unique, one-piece drop-forward/tank adapter with a built-in 1/4-turn shutoff valve.

• Here's an all-new, from-scratch aluminum Grip Frame for a Palmer's Typhoon.
• Wobbly trigger? I fixed this one with a stainless-steel bushing reamed to a perfect fit.
• Trick: Two-finger VM-68 trigger milled and shaped in solid steel, then chromed.
• More brass parts: A Rock knob for an old-style all-brass Rock, and a solid-brass 'Cocker LP chamber.
• Yes, I had a Loader chromed. Don't ask- it's not very durable and pretty expensive.

• And yes, I had an AutoMag Titanium Nitrided about five years ago. Cost a fortune and wasn't that great looking.
• I'm no Triggernomics, but here's a solid stainless steel Shocker "ring" trigger.
• Here's a nice Swoopy drop-forward for a Max Flow.
• Mounted a Jackhammer up close on a Sovereign; note the knob's been hollowed too.
• The original and still the best: Stainless steel hardlines... with no fittings.

• A cool, contoured foregrip for an AutoMag. Here's a gas-thru version.
• What is it? It's a prototype "manifold" to mount solenoids on an Electro-Cocker.
• Here's a quartet of custom aluminum direct-feed adapters for a Rapide double-action pistol. Really.
• I whipped up this reverse-'Cocker frontblock to smooth up another shop's mod.
• The Brits called these "sidesaddles". They held a straight-shot type squeegee on the gun. Mine's all stainless steel.

• Check out this cool BM2K 'guard-huggin' Trigger.
• How about this 'Cocker with a one-of-a-kind front block?
• Here's why that Front Block is so unique- a massive internal LP chamber
• Oldie but a goodie- a Chromed Steel tank ring I made about four years ago. And another shot.
• Broke a stock Phantom safety button? Here's one in polished Steel.

• How about a right-hand-feed LCD Dark Angel?
• Or maybe a right-hand-feed 2001 LCD.
• To go with that, I made a subtle mod to the LCD grip frame...
• Here's a set of aluminum LCD control buttons, just for kicks.
• Or here's a "gold" set in Brass.

• A first: A Rocking trigger! Pivots in the middle, shoot by drumming your fingers like on a table.
• I whipped up a cool Barrel Plug.
• One, two, three, Four vertical-feed-converted Shockers!
• You've seen my Shocker vertical conversions- Here's one that uses a removable Angel feed neck.
• Speaking of Angel/Shocker crossbreeding- I stuck a Jacko Infinity on my Shocker.

• Guess what gun this Grip Frame (with Angel-geometry electronic trigger) and integrated ASA/solenoid mount fits?
• Guess what barrel I discovered fits the Sovereign- with less than five minutes' work.
• How about a one-piece, polished-chrome, all-steel Carbine 2-finger trigger?
• Or a handful of polished Stainless Steel Shocker triggers?
• Ever seen a drop-angle Gas-Thru stock?

• When only one Regulator just isn't enough....
• In the spirit of Halloween, here's an Orange 'Cocker.
• Check out my custom PGP Crossdraw shoulder-holster.
• The one, the only, the JackaBoom... stick.
• Here's another JackaBoom, and a custom-made 11" Micro-Boomer.

• I remachined this stainless fitting into a 90-Degree quick-disconnect nipple.
• Here's a "Patch" fashioned to repair a Defiant that had suffered a Dremel-&-drill-press mod...
• This Defiant recieved an Angel LCD Grip Frame transplant.
• And here's the mounting block for the Defiant frame: Disassembled and assembled.
• This is an all-stainless-steel 'Cocker Beavertail I made about four years ago...

• Made this Wedge-Thingie to convert a Trracer or TS-1 "Euro" grip to accept normal bottomline accessories.
• Another oldie-but-goodie: An all-stainless 'Mag Hardline with a built-in quick-disconnect....
• ... And here's the rest of the 'Mag, back when I ran it on CO2.
• We were waaay ahead of all those other shops, making "Electronic Grips"... kinda. Here's another set.
• Last, but not least, the Mystery Gun.