# Artsy-Craftsy Types! Bring Me Your .....Rubbers

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artsy-craftsy-types-bring-me-your-rubbers/190265
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 22, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artsy-craftsy-types-bring-me-your-rubbers/190265 "2003-07-22T23:37:00Z")
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### Author: ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artsy-craftsy-types-bring-me-your-rubbers/190265/1 "2003-07-22T23:37:00Z")

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    - I have a revolver I want a target-style grip for, and nobody makes them the way I’d want. The only way I could get one already made is if I paid someplace to do it in wood, and they’d want $125-$150 for that, and I want a tacky-black rubber type material anyway.  
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- There are a couple places I found online that sell do-it-yourself handle-molding kits, for making handles for-- well, whatever, really. And they seem to charge quite a lot for their “gun grip kits”-- what is basically a sheet of hot-melt foam rubber (that you melt and shape with a heat gun). I’m suspecting that this material probably has some dull, boring industrial use and is sold by the square yard pretty cheap, but I haven’t found it yet. I already know of a couple different types of liquid-cast rubber, but hot-melt would be far easier and cleaner to use, as far as I can imagine.
- The only sources of rubber fabricating I am at all familiar with are latex-rubber used in the earlier stage of making bronze casts, but I _don’t_ want latex rubber, it won’t hold up to typical gun solvents and residues. I need a synthetic material. Anybody know anything?  
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