In the 20th century if you wanted to put together a custom gun, the 1911 was the answer. In the 21st? It’s a Glock. There are more Glock clones out there than any other pistol by a hefty margin. It’s not hard to see why either, as all the critical dimensions have long been uncovered, and even midsize companies have access to milling machines so advanced only the likes of Ford Motor Co would have had just a few short years ago. Back in CONCEALMENT Issue 36 we updated the single-stack Glock 43, and today we’re going to take on the higher-capacity stagger-stack Glock 48.
BASELINE
Right from the beginning of any project you need to decide if you’re going to start from scratch or are going to modify something you already have. In the case of the Glock 48 (and all Glock pistols), you can simply buy a stripped or complete lower from the likes of GunBroker for approximately half the price you’ll pay at a box store for a complete pistol.
The plus of modifying something you already have or buying a complete gun is that you’ll have some spare parts for swapping from the beginning; if you totally mess
