If you look at the Milled MAK-90 in the last photo, I actually spent quite some time re-contouring the thumbhole stock to make the grip part a great deal thinner and remove any wrist or thumb interference when wrapping your hand around it - I actually really like the stock now. One of those two...
At this point, it's time to start wrapping it up and moving on to the "finishing" steps
While I have never personally done auto-paint, I have a deep understanding of what goes into the surface prep for quality finishes! Its ALL in the prep!!!
So from the final sandblasting, we moved on to more...
Alright, now that we have been through the wire-brushing and all the wonderful pitting and rust, it's time to take an adventure into sandblasting!
So to preface this - I'm incredibly mechanically inclined. While my day Job is finishing up a PhD at Emory in Transplantation Immunology, I also...
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I've been told my re-build / restoration / resurrection might deserve its own thread so people can actually find the info... so here we go!
This is a 386 Factory Milled MAK-90 from 1993 (93 date code) that came to me as a "needs serious help" sale on ODT in January ($600 -...