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NEW RELEASE

URUTAU

It's finally here: The Urutau. Designed, tested, and released by Ze Carioca, the golden line of DIY PCCs continues. The long-awaited Urutau is a 9mm Bullpup Carbine sporting an entirely custom fire control group design, a fully DIY barrel (relying on an improved ECM procedure), and a bolt drawn from every lesson of the FGC-9 series.

The entire release contains fully assembled STEP variants, including fasteners, and a build guide with actually legible assembly illustrations. A highlight is the guide's "New Second Amendment," which correctly identifies DIY gun culture as post-American. Because it requires no parts kits to build, and because it's actually Open Source, The Urutau may be the new standard both in design and style in DIY Defense.

Other DEFCAD releases this month include the FTN.X series of suppressors from plaboi, whose FTN.4 Kneelsun EZ Pistol uses a DIY Nielsen device to deal with the difficulties of suppressor weight and the tilt of modern striker-fired handguns. We also recommend the PUGs, a concept for nearly 100% printed takedown pins for the AR-15, representing another step towards full DIY for that platform.

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OPTIC CUT LIBRARY 2.0

Ghost Gunner announces its next package for slide work.

With thirteen compatible slide designs and eight of the industry standard Optic Patterns, the new Optic Cut Library 2.0 allows GG3-S users to customize position, depth and threads on a variety of slides - all with the push of a button. Upgrade DDCut and buy the new Optic Cut Kits today.

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DOCUMENTATION

PROFESSOR PARABELLUM IMPROVISED GRENADES

His holiness Professor Parabellum graces us with a number of new texts this month.

Released just yesterday, The PIRA MK 10 Improvised Mortar System is a study of a classic improvised bomb design and launch system. Its publication represents the first volume in a series of "standard improvised munitions."

The professor has also published his Improvised Anti-Armour Hand Grenades and IRA Improvised Hand Grenade Designs volumes, "intended for academic study purposes only," of course.

VIDEO

Print-Wave Metal Casting: Aluminum Mug

Because metal components will continue to be necessary to the DIY gunsmith, we present Print-Wave Metal Casting: A Different Approach to Metal Melting, by Shake the Future on YouTube.

 

"In this video, I demonstrate a new kind of metal casting method. It's similar to sand casting, but it's not. We use investment to make moulds from 3D printed objects, but there is no need to do a burnout. So it can be done without using a kiln."

 

Shake the Future's follow up video Print-Wave Metal Casting: Aluminium Mug is a good demonstration of his method in aluminum.

Adding the home microwave to 3D projects just makes sense, in a tragic kind of way.