Custom Carbon Fibre free-floating handguard

[Lex]

Well, I wanted to make a lighter handguard for my STI Valkyrie to balance the Lantac Dragon comp and I am quite satisfied with the results.

Materials: 2mm thick CF tube, aluminium pipe, military-grade epoxy glue.

The CF tube was sized and laser cut at 12, 6, 9, 10, 1 and 2 o'clock to allow cooling and equipment mounting. The aluminium tube was machined to size and had threads cut to match the original handguard. Then it was anodized in black. All this was epoxied together.

And voila - a drop-in handguard that is 1 inch longer, (13 instead of 12 inches) and weights more than 7 oz less than the original one :)

Costs - around 60 quid.

[Demonic69]

I'll get my order in now :-)

[saddler]

Sources for the raw materials?

Quite fancy tarting up one of my CAM rifles...it's crying out for a chassis type stock rebuild

[Lex]

@Demonic69: thanks for the appreciation!
@saddler: all materials are sourced from Bulgarian suppliers.

[Demonic69]

No really! Judging by the prices charged for things like this you could be onto a winner if you could make some profit and still keep it reasonable cost.

[BamBam]

Got a picture of it mounted on your rifle?

[Lex]

BamBam, here it is:

[Rburro2]

I'm trying to get one of these for mine

[ovenpaa]

That looks superb Lex

[BamBam]

That looks good Lex, where is your balance point now?