Finally got my flip jig squared away and now the nomad is ready for production!!
1911 grips was the first hurdle
Designed in solidworks
Meshcam to g code and… grrrr troublesome.
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Adam! Your not supposed to cut those grips while they’re still on the gun! 
That looks like a winner for you. You must have a laser somewhere, too.
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FWIW I’ve recently been taking another approach to flipping parts:
- Bore 5.8mm holes in a large piece of stock using a ~1/8" endmill, to match the 6mm locating features on the bed
- Ream the hole to 6mm
- Use the locating holes and a dowel pin to locate the stock on the bed
- Fix the stock (e.g. tape and superglue or with a fastener)
- Machine the part, leave some tabs
- Flip the stock
- Machine the other side
- Cut the tabs, file what remains
Some nice consequences:
- You can plonk down a piece of stock just about the same size as your bed and machine the whole thing at once. In your case it looks like that would mean ~5 or 6 grips in one setup.
- Since the stock is already located, you don’t need to bother with homing on X or Y.
- If you buy stock with a decent thickness tolerance, no need to home on Z either (or you can home to the bed).
- If you can leave the locating features in place while you’re machining, they can keep your work rigid.
One potential improvement I picked up from NYC CNC is to use hot glue to fix the part in place after machining so that you can machine away the tabs.
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Nice. Is that blue grip a Valkyrie Dynamics?
If you want to mess with textures, gunsmith Ned Christiansen has something called conamyids (cones + pyramids) that I saw years ago:
I love your Idea, on the same level I was thinking!
Yessir valkyrie in g10. Doing hexagons tomm when I get home. I edited a file a found with blender (crossing fingers) and hoping to fully customize 3 sets to get actual production flowing. There is a decent market at my work