I want to stipple a panel on my reciever, I was wondering if anyoune here can post a pic of the tip of a stippeling punch so I know how to grind it. I'm practicing on a piece of 1" black iron pipe, it's actually not turning out too bad but I need to find a different punch tip for a better look.

Also, I stippled a small area on my iron pipe and then ran the file over it to knock off the high spots and it also shined it up a little, does anyone do this?

Any additional information or close up pics is appreciated, as well.

There have been some great stippling examples seen shown here but I have not seen how to make or sharpen a stipple punch. I do hope this will be addressed as well as how to use an electic "hammer" to stipple large areas. I would like to do some stippling also.

Don't have any photos but I use shop-made punches with multiple points. I use a fine checkering file to form the teeth and then harden & temper as I would a pin punch. I use several sizes and grind to final shape.

I saw Lynton McKenzie use a cup-tip punch to do some very nice stippling background for some of his engraving. For contrast he coated the stippling with black epoxy paint and the cup-tip marks made it look almost like fine pigskin. This is one of the approaches I'd like to use in the future, along with a diamond pattern.
Regards, Joe

This was done with a 90geg round punch made from a long shank power drill bit. Good tough steel, hardened and tempered after grinding.

This stipling was for grip, not decoration or background and it works very well.

I haven't tried this yet but it looks like a good starting point.

stippling punch

I make them out of O1 rod. In the annealed state I use a checkering file to put "diamonds" on the end of a 3/8" dia rod. You can use any angle for your diamonds depending on the type of stippling you want. After the diamonds are applied you can grind the rod down to a smaller diameter, square corner, triangle, etc. to reach into whatever crevice you may need to get at. Then harden & temper. I have many stippling punches - almost as many as I have chisels.

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Originally posted by Rusty Marlin:



This was done with a 90geg round punch made from a long shank power drill bit. Good tough steel, hardened and tempered after grinding.

This stipling was for grip, not decoration or background and it works very well.

Hi Rusty
Wouldn't a treatment like this expand the surface, and introduce a lot of streess into the steel,so you end up with a potentially whider magazine well.

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Hi Rusty
Wouldn't a treatment like this expand the surface, and introduce a lot of streess into the steel,so you end up with a potentially wider magazine well.

jørgen is absolutely right about this.....whether it's of serious consequence is to be determined.

Hey jørgen, could one regulate the barrels of a double rifle by stippling one side of the barrel(s)....maybe just a little in the middle of the barrel?.....increase stippling until both barrels shot to the same POI?

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Originally posted by tiggertate:
I haven't tried this yet but it looks like a good starting point.

stippling punch

Thanks tiggertate, that is just the sort of link to give us ideas above our abilities, so I guess i will have to try it. I want to do the reciever ring on my 404 but getting the border lines cut has me stumped without a graver.

Von Gruff.

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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Hi Rusty
Wouldn't a treatment like this expand the surface, and introduce a lot of streess into the steel,so you end up with a potentially wider magazine well.

jørgen is absolutely right about this.....whether it's of serious consequence is to be determined.

Hey jørgen, could one regulate the barrels of a double rifle by stippling one side of the barrel(s)....maybe just a little in the middle of the barrel?.....increase stippling until both barrels shot to the same POI?

Uneven beadblasting before bluing of the barrels would be enough.
Some gunsmiths clames that it often is enough to file the muzzle out of angle, thereby mooving the poi of that barrel

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Originally posted by jørgen:
Some gunsmiths clames that it often is enough to file the muzzle out of angle, thereby mooving the poi of that barrel

Correct. Doesn't affect accuracy if done properly, only POI.
Regards, Joe