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| How to Customize Your Glock: Step-by-Step Modifications You Can Do at Little Cost | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert H. Boatman, Morgan W. Boatman
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 244634
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 72
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 1581604823
EAN: 9781581604825
ASIN: 1581604823
Publication Date: November 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good for those new to Glocks December 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is well written and has good photography. It wasn't much help to me as I've been tinkering with Glocks for a while. If you are new to Glocks then this book will help you a lot.
Great book for detail strip, but light on the customizations November 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is great for takedown & reassembly, but I can't seem to find any modifications. I may have expected more based on a comment to the author's review that mentioned polishing the trigger mech, stating that it could be a bad idea, and another comment saying how these mods could void your warranty. I simply cannot find any modifications here that isn't simply dropping in new parts.
The book is broken down into 5 sections (level 1, 2, 3, 4, & Expert). The expert "section" was ONE PAGE that says:
"FOR EXPERTS ONLY
There are a few customizing procedures Glock owners are advised to leave in the hands of a competent gunsmith. These include polishing and porting, refinishing and coloring, and grip and trigger guard reshaping. Polishing some of the internal parts of your glock may result in smoother operation but overdoing it can have disastrous effects. There are home coloring kits for adding colorful graphic designs to the metal and polymer of your glock, but that's kind of like painting your own car. It's very tempting to take a saw or a file to that useless and unsightly hook on the glock trigger guard, but there are a lot of people who know how to work with polymer better than you do, and they will perform a very attractive job for not much money. Our recommendation for this kind of unusual work on your glock is the ompany that originated many of the processes involved: The robar Companies 21438 N. 7th ave Phoenix az 85027 email info@robarguns www.rogarguns.com".
That's it for the expert section. a third of a page. Now I get to find another book in addition to this.
 Marginal at best---- suited for novice/beginner only November 29, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is basically how to take your Glock apart, with reallyl big pictures. It gives little to no advice on how to 'customize' your Glock. What it does fairly well is tell you how to break it down piece by piece (I say fairly becasue it doesn't tell you all the parts, jsut the big ones). Unless you are a novice needing big pictures, save your $.
 Best Methods to Modify!!! July 10, 2007
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book for anybody that already owns a Glock. This type of gun is easy to maintain. easy to personalize, and highly entertaining to shoot, and this book makes it THAT much more accessible. This book was excellent. Part of the appeal for me to buy my first Glock was the fact that they ARE so easy to maintain and personalize. This book has many USEFUL methods to do just that!
It should be noted this book is a specialized manual to modify and upkeep your gun, NOT a general interest book about Glocks.
Proven Helpful to Many Glock Shooters June 27, 2007
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
Hello,
My name is Morgan Boatman, I am the coauthor - with my father, Robert Boatman - of How to Customize Your Glock. Being the author, I cannot exactly give a review of my own book, but I can supply additional information that you may find interesting.
The story behind the book is that it began as a labor of love. After my father wrote his book Living with Glocks in 2001, I started shooting Glocks too. Information about these unusual pistols was hard to come by back then. It was almost as if Gaston Glock expected his pistols to be self-explanatory because of their proclaimed "perfection." Truth is, one of the most significant innovations of Gaston was that his pistols introduced to the world the notion that every shooter could be his or her own gunsmith. Before the era of Glock's modular design, such a proposition was pretty much out of the question. So, for those who had an interest, it was suddenly a simple matter, for instance, to change trigger pull characteristics in a few minutes. The problem was getting the information on how to do so correctly and safely.
I have always had a natural talent in working with and understanding machines, so I didn't find Glock maintenance or parts-substitution difficult at all. A certain friend of mine however - an expert in many fields - was somewhat less able when it came to machinery. While Glocks don't need as much cleaning and maintenance as other semi-autos, my friend was putting off these crucial tasks until he could avoid them no longer. I knew that running his gun filthy and with over-mileage components was inevitably going to impact reliability and longevity.
What seemed simple to me was a big deal for him. So I started writing out the basic procedures for maintenance. These procedures started without the aid of illustrations or photographs, so they had to be completely comprehendible just from simple and direct textual descriptions. Each step had to be a balance of simplicity and complexity so my friend would neither impatiently skip ahead nor lag behind in confusion. I sincerely wanted him to make it through each procedure for his own safety. This became the kernel of How to Customize Your Glock.
After several rave reviews from shooting friends (both Glock aficionados and otherwise) I decided I would flesh-out the material into a legitimate book. The next step was therefore to support the descriptions with photos. What finally turned out to be over two-hundred photographs were taken using my personal Glock 23 as a model on a specialized lighting rig and stage that I designed and built in my garage. Each shot was composed and carefully edited by me to communicate without confusion the procedures detailed in the text. They are high-resolution images taken with the same digital camera I use for my automobile magazine work.
My father wrote introductions to each section and we submitted the manuscript to Paladin Press, publishers of my father's other books: Living with Glocks, Living with the 1911, Living with the Big Fifty and Living with the AR-15. Our joint venture has been enthusiastically received by the Glock community and has become a Paladin Press Best-Seller.
So, my unassuming little primer originally intended to simply keep my friends safe and save them money and aggravation turned into an honest-to-goodness book that has now helped over a thousand Glock enthusiasts.
So, for those who find themselves a little intimidated by their Glock's accessibility, I offer this step-by-step self-help manual to build your personal confidence and foster greater familiarity with your pistol.
Thank you,
Morgan
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