I just bought another Glock 19 lower tonight. This is the fourth one. My daughter and I built the first one as a project. I am working on the second as a Gucci Glock.

These last two, I think I am going to keep them in the parts drawer like others keep AR lowers. Anyone else doing this?

I've thought about it. Are these 80% lowers?

I've thought about doing that, but with slides.

Nah...serialized oem lowers. I figure I can always get parts to put it together.

I just bought 2 gen 5 19's. I put type 2 Trijicon RMR's on them and shoot the crap out of them. So I do the multiple thing, I just don't have the patience to go the project route

I keep stripped lowers around so this seems like a good idea to me. Not that I’m full of good ideas lately! Lol

Building up “custom” glocks though is pricy. It’s fun though. Show us some pics. We will ignore the “you would be better spending your $$$ on ammo and training” guys. I like what other people come up with. My “custom” one is stock in lots of places and has never malfunctioned. And it feels like mine.

My biggest issue is I like gen4 frames (smallish hands) and they are hard to find or expensive. Cheap gen3 frames make sanding and stippling less painful to contemplate though.

Not to the point of buying extras yet, but I do like to customize a few of them.

Converted a pair of Gen4 21s to run on .38 Super. I also have a Gen2 22 that spends time as a 357 Sig carbine or a 7.65mm pistol.

Never saw any of those in the Glock lineup.

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Welcome to the brotherhood !
My first two Glocks were scratch builds.
Gen3 G19
Gen3 G17

I've since moved on to Polymer80.
That one is a G19 clone and a pleasure to shoot.

P80

Here is the one my daughter and I did. Lower was already stippled and modified..which is why I got it for $60 stripped. We did the slide in Gun Candy Cerakote.





The other one is still in progress. I have a Zev slide for it and an agency barrel. I am thinking about having the frame stippled like this.



The other two I think I will keep them in the safe for now.

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Even a somewhat plain build can be quite expensive. It is fun though.

Yeah, I am finding that out as I am trying to source some of the parts. With all the polymer80 out there, there is a huge demand for uppers, barrel, and slide parts. I am keeping things simple by staying really with gen 3 glock 19 so that I have an abundance of parts.

Besides, buying part by part makes it a scavenger hunts in itself.

Guessing that my most customized 19 that I have really isn't a Glock, but retains some of the Glock architecture.

The only part from Glock is the magazine tube. Got carried away with it and bought the parts when they were on sale.