Ok well here is my first attempt installing a rail and my first attempt silver soldering. As you can see from the final picture its not 100% yet, but its getting close. I still need to do a little more clean up.

For those of you who may be wondering, this is the same gun from another thread i started a couple months ago. Its time for phase 2 of my "build". The rail is just one part of my plans for "phase 2". Let me know what you guys think, anything that jumps out as ugly please let me know, and ill try and fix it. And yes, i dont really know what i am doing, i am just trying to have fun a learn something new



On to the photos

1. Holes drilled and tapped. Frame to rail fit is being modified to bring the gaps down.



2. Screws stickin up, file those puppies down and sand smooooth.



3. Sanded smooth, off to the blast cabinet we go



4. This shot shows the rail mounted while getting blasted. I took them apart and blasted them clean before silver soldering (like everything else, i have no idea if thats the "correct" way of doing things)



5. Dirty and cooling off. Wiped clean (kinda) then off to the blaster again.



6. Fresh out of the blaster, not so pretty. I broke the files and sandpaper out and went to town flying my the seat of my pants.



7. After some filing and sanding this is what i came up with. Off to the blaster i go again.




8. Fresh out of the blast cabinet. This is where i stopped tonight. Like i previously said its by no means perfect/done but IMO its well on its way. Just a little more time with the files and i hope to be done.