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My buddy made me a bottle opener in the shape of my car. I explained that my car was in fact NOT a Mustang, but rather a GTO, and he replied, keep it anyway. I did…
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Got a few of these printed
Curious, I printed a couple G19 test frames upside down like that and found it a real pain in the backside to attempt to clean up the supports out of all the areas with important tolerances. I switched to printing upright so that most of the supports were outside of the frame (On the bottom specifically) and found it MUCH easier to clean up the supports.

I also didn't care much for the smooth grips on the particular STL that I grabbed. At some point I'm going to get motivated enough to add some texturing to the grip area and reprint as a test. It was just a science experiment for me but turned out to work surprisingly well.
 
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